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Will Harry Craig learn Japanese by 2019? RWC going to Japan

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    Posted 1 year ago

  2. Faust
    Moderator

    England will host the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and Japan will run the tournament in 2019, the International Rugby Board announced Tuesday.

    Approval from the board's ruling council was widely expected after Rugby World Cup Ltd. — the IRB-controlled company that oversees each tournament — last month endorsed England and Japan as the strongest bidders.

    Board chairman Bernard Lapasset said 16 of the 26 IRB council members voted in favour of the English and Japanese bids during afternoon deliberations at a Dublin conference centre. Others backed rival finalists South Africa and Italy, which both placed bids to host either in 2015 or 2019.

    England last helped stage a Rugby World Cup in 1991, while Japan will play host for the first time. Four years ago, Japan was the front-runner to host the 2011 World Cup but lost unexpectedly to New Zealand.

    England Rugby Union chairman Martyn Thomas called the decision “a relief, and also great joy for England.”

    Thomas said 2007 host France had set new standards for facilities, crowd control, ticket sales and fan enjoyment.

    “France raised the bar. We've now got to raise the bar again,” he said.

    Lapasset said England triumphed in part because its rugby union could offer particularly strong financial guarantees and impressive existing stadiums, crucial during a time of global recession.

    He said Japan represented a great platform to promote rugby in Asia and keep expanding the audience and financial clout of a tournament first staged only 22 years ago.

    England's winning bid proposed using Wembley, Manchester United's Old Trafford, Liverpool's Anfield and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium as venues, while Twickenham would host the final. The England Rugby Union projects it could sell three-million tickets — 50 per cent more than the existing record set by France in 2007.

    “We've got some very iconic stadia we're going to be using,” Thomas said.

    Rugby unions from eight nations — bidders England and South Africa as well as Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Australia and New Zealand — had two votes each in Tuesday's decision. Japan, Italy, Argentina, Canada and six regional associations representing whole continents had one vote each.

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  3. Harry Craig
    Member

    All I need to know is how to order beer.

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  5. Faust
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    Why can't the Americans get their carp together to bring it here? Can RC and USA Rugby do a combined bid to bring the world cup to North America.

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  6. irishlock
    Member

    Sure they *could* do a joint bid, but what's in it for the US? Typically , European nations do it because they don't have enough suitable stadia. Canada doesn't have any suitable stadia. US would (if they wanting to bid) find enough venues that had actual grass though. As while fieldturf etc is *allowed* as an international surface, no one actually wants to use it.

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  7. Faust
    Moderator

    Another vote in North America?

    Posted 1 year ago #

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