twintail said:
Ka-pi96 said:
twintail said:
Ka-pi96 said:
You think it's not unfair that they are literally the only ever team to not make it past the pool stage after losing only a single time?
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It is called being unlucky. Just because they fell into an extremely rare occurence doesnt make it unfair. No one won all their games in their pool so something like this was bound to happen.
unfair it is not. Thats implying they were short changed in some way, and they werent. They just werent good enough and landed in a nunfortunante situation where points played a role in determing the qualifying teams.
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Well there's also the fact that they only had 4 days rest between their 2 biggest games of the pool while Scotland came in to the game fresh.
However much you want to claim it was unlucky rather than unfair there's no disputing that one team only having a short rest while the other comes in to a game at full fitness is unfair. The scheduling could have been been better on that front. I suppose it's difficult to avoid when you have an odd number of teams in a group, and everybody did get their turn with it, but some matches are just more important than others and that was Japan's most important.
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This is just an excuse at the end of the day.
I would have liked jpn to through too, I see it as my 2nd home. The schedule was unfortunate for them but it happens. That is the reality of the situation. Blaming their loss on that fact is just making excuses for their rather poor play in that match.
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Its okay, this is a new era of Rugby for Japan. Ten years from now i expect Japan to be permanently in the top ten teams in the world and i can definitely see them making the QF at the next world cup. With a Japan team also joining the super rugby they'll be the next Argentina.
