The lesson World Rugby MUST learn from football World Cup.
In the football World Cup you get games almost every day up to the knockout rounds. The pool stage despite on paper not having the highest profile games creates a constant festival vibe and buzz of the tournament.
In the RWC the fools at WR have decided to concentrate games largely on weekends. Zero midweek games on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday the entire tournament.
This is despite one of the biggest pros of the 24 team format and even numbers of teams in each pool is it could have allowed them to do this without any side having a really short rest period as seen in some previous tournaments.
Furthermore another positive of having a constant flow of pool stage games every day is it really keeps things moving. If there is a bad match, then never mind just move on to the next one. Once the actual football starts FIFA gets a "bury your bad news day" almost every day.
By contrast at the next RWC after the weekend is over, instead of being able to quickly move on to the next game, the fans and media is going to instead spend days dwelling on the negative talking points like criticising the smaller teams presence after a blowout defeat, or spending days somewhat tediously discussing whatever the latest referee or citing controversy is (not saying they would necessarily be wrong to discuss that controversy but it brings the festival vibe down when it drags on).
The weekend dominant scheduling at RWC 2027 (along with not putting any of the bigger pool games on the first weekend) was a huge basic error. I really hope that WR do not keep repeating it for further tournaments.
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