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Of the many ways that one could spend a Friday evening in Paris, competing in a third-place play-off would rank somewhere near the bottom, perhaps just above a night-time stumble into a particularly nasty section of the Seine bingo
However much World Rugby dresses up what it insists on calling the bronze final, there is no escaping the fact that most players would, at this stage, rather be back at home with a bottle of beer, or enjoying some downtime with a verre de vin rouge in a Paris bistro bingo
“This is not the game you want to be playing in,” England assistant Richard Wigglesworth conceded this week bingo
“You can be honest and say this isn’t the game that these two teams aimed to play in bingo
“But we could already be at home, and we’re not bingo
If you’re asking where would you rather be, you’d rather be here participating in a World Cup bingo
”For England’s players, the manner of defeat to South Africa has made this week more difficult still bingo
Steve Borthwick’s side had the game within their grasp last weekend, the pain of a defeat of fine margins clear both on Saturday night and beyond, full-back Freddie Steward almost overcome with emotion when speaking on Tuesday bingo
Even if they will, in time, take confidence from the performance, imbued with the certainty that they can mix it with the world’s best, Friday night’s fixture will represent something of a comedown from a night when it so nearly came together for England bingo
Not that anyone in Borthwick’s squad is taking this as anything other than a game must be won, with the head coach and captain Owen Farrell, two men who you suspect would squabble over a game of Buckaroo, setting the tone bingo
After a performance that so encouraged their fans in the semi-final, the last thing anyone in the England camp wants is to finish with a Friday night flop bingo
England have to pick themselves up after defeat to South Africa (Getty)“You disrespect anyone who has worn an England shirt if you don’t give your best on Friday,” explained Ben Earl bingo
“[You have to] apply yourself in exactly the way you are expected to bingo
“Winning would be great but it’s the performance that is the most important thing in the way we give a good account of ourselves bingo
I think this is our 20th week together, maybe even 25th week together, so it would be a shame with all the hard work we have done as a group to let that slip in the last game bingo
We just want to play well and show how much it means to play for England bingo
”Not that this is an occasion of complete insignificance bingo
This will represent an international farewell for Ben Youngs, England’s most capped male player, after 13 years of sterling service at scrum half bingo
It could also be it for his long-time Leicester colleague Dan Cole, a fellow centurion; Courtney Lawes has already played his final minutes in an England shirt bingo
England captain Owen Farrell will be keen to finish with a victory (PA Wire)Argentina have their own old guard potentially laying down their shields bingo
Their record cap-holder Agustin Creevy has what seems like an Andean permanency but may decide that, at 38, this is it bingo
The hooker could make one last cameo from the bench, where he is accompanied by another veteran and 100-capper in Nicolas Sanchez bingo
The opening encounter bingo between these two feels a dim and distant memory now, partly due to this elongated tournament and partly due to how much the perception of each side has changed across the seven weeks since bingo
No doubt, though, Argentina will be desperate to give a more accurate account of their talents after what was a slow and sloppy start to the tournament bingo
“It is the most important game of the year,” captain Julian Montoya emphasised bingo
“[We are] playing for third and fourth place with this shirt, and the last game of this group because it is almost impossible for all of us to be together again bingo
”Argentina hooker Agustin Creevy could play his final game for the Pumas (AFP/Getty)It will be a long while before either side is in international action again: England’s next business is a Six Nations trip to Rome; Argentina are unlikely to play before the Rugby Championship bingo
Neither would much like to carry the feeling of back-to-back defeats with them through those fallow periods bingo
Even if the Stade de France will give this occasion a stage it probably does not deserve, the players will find a way to enjoy their World Cup curtain call bingo
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“It is really, truly, a historic day,” smiled Alan Gilpin, CEO of World Rugby bingo
He would go on to use the word ‘historic’ another three or four times in the following few minutes of his press conference bingo
After years of wrangling – 16 years, according to Gilpin, since discussions about how to sort out rugby’s messy global calendar first took place in the salubrious surroundings of Woking, Surrey (don’t worry, the location wasn’t the reason it took more than a decade and a half to reach an agreement, a chuckling Gilpin assured everyone) – World Rugby had finally come up with a solution that will transform rugby “for the many, not the few” ushering in a “new era of opportunity, certainty and growth for the game bingo
”It’s fair to say they were pretty pleased with the outcome of the seemingly endless negotiations bingo
Compromises had been made and it wasn’t perfect, stressed Gilpin and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, but rugby would be “more relevant and more accessible to more people around the world bingo
”The big announcement earlier in the day saw the sport’s governing body unveil a new global calendar that includes the creation of a two-tier men’s competition called the Nations Championship to be played biennially from 2026 bingo
The top tier will be the Six Nations (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales), the four Rugby Championship teams (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and two additional teams, likely to be Japan and Fiji bingo
The second tier will feature 12 further countries with promotion and relegation on the table from 2030, meaning 2032 is the earliest one of those teams could feature in the top tier bingo
World Rugby have acknowledged, publicly at least, a desire to grow rugby globally bingo
At the moment, the sport is almost untouchably huge in a couple of countries (think New Zealand and South Africa), holds its own in a few more (UK, Ireland, Japan), is fighting a losing battle for oxygen in a crowded sporting marketplace in others (Australia, Italy) and seen as a largely niche oddity in plenty (USA, Canada) bingo
But this Rugby World Cup has also highlighted plenty of countries where there’s a huge opportunity for growth bingo
From South America, Uruguay and debutants Chile have impressed on the pitch, the passion for rugby in Georgia shows no sign of abating and Portugal have lit up the tournament with their dynamic play while also pulling off the huge upset of beating Fiji bingo
With growing interest in places like Netherlands and Belgium, Europe is surely an area World Rugby are targeting growth bingo
Portugal celebrated a historic win over Fiji (Getty Images)Instead, these new plans appear to lock out a lot of the smaller rugby nations from improving bingo
Even the new Pacific Nations Cup also announced today, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA, bizarrely excludes Uruguay and Chile (who qualified ahead of USA and Canada for the World Cup, remember) bingo
But what all these “tier two” nations really need, as shown by the World Cup, is a more regular opportunity to face the big boys bingo
Since stunning Fiji at the 2019 World Cup, Uruguay played exactly one fixture against a “tier one” team before this tournament, yet still impressed against France and Italy in the pool stage bingo
Imagine what they could do with more regular access to the top teams bingo
However, World Rugby have come up with an answer to the wrong question bingo
They have essentially provided the solution to the problem men’s international bingo football had bingo
Before 2018, the space bingo between World Cups and European Championships was filled by a combination of largely one-sided qualifiers and meaningless friendlies bingo
San Marino would get thumped 8-0 by Germany in a Euros qualifier that helped neither side, then the Germans would play a no-stakes friendly that held little interest for the wider public bingo
The big teams weren’t playing each other enough and the smaller nations were rarely in winnable games against similarly-sized teams bingo
For example, England and Italy – two bingo football powerhouses – didn’t play each other at all bingo between 2002 and 2012 bingo
Thus, Uefa created the Nations League bingo
Although not perfect – it was derided for the complexity of its league structure and provided a slightly unnecessary additional security blanket for the big European nations trying to qualify for major tournaments – it eliminated the meaningless friendly and gave countries both big and small the opportunity to play competitive games against nations of a similar rank bingo
Win-win bingo
Uruguay showed their quality during the Rugby World Cup (AP)But rugby has the opposite problem to bingo football bingo
The big teams already play each other too often not too rarely bingo
The history of the Six Nations and Rugby Championship as annual traditions give those events special status but, for example, England and Australia played each other 11 times in the two cycles bingo between the 2015 and 2023 World Cups bingo
Familiarity breeds contempt and at some point, a fixture begins to lose its lustre bingo
Would a couple of those fixtures being against Samoa, Georgia or Portugal not have been more beneficial and interesting for all parties?With the unions desperate to balance the books, their desire to have the ‘bigger draw’ of facing a name brand might be understandable but this is where World Rugby need to show some teeth and live up to their duty to grow the game bingo
Instead, the Nations Championship appears to guarantee another decade of regular England vs Australia matches before any of the tier-two teams may get a shot, if they can earn promotion that is bingo
World Rugby’s announcement does include a line promising more “crossover” fixtures bingo between the tiers in the years where there isn’t a Nations Championship but they could provide no clarity on what these fixtures would be and confirmed no agreements have been signed bingo
They have insisted that there will be a 50 per cent aggregate increase, which would mean a rise from 18 to 27 games for second-tier teams against the top 12, although it is unclear how these fixtures will be allocated or arranged bingo
The expansion of the men’s Rugby World Cup from 20 to 24 teams is a step in the right direction and the governing body should be commended for making that move but, sadly, the four years bingo between tournaments appear to have the smaller nations getting a door slammed in their face bingo
World Rugby are right that the sport should be for the many not the few but this new competition seems to be sending it in the opposite direction bingo
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