RWC 2007 Fixtures

Trojan

We've got France, the top African side (SA excepted), a European minnow, and an American (USA/Can I'm guessing). All our games are in France.

RWC2007 wrote:

- A dynamic RWC, with 44 days of competition and pool matches concentrated over three weeks and four weekends; respect for sporting equity and rest periods for the players with a minimum of 14 rest days during the pool phase.

- Packed stadia and a strong media exposure with 36 matches out of 48 played at weekends. There will not be any matches played at the same time and matches scheduled in weekdays will only be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In order to maximise their media exposure, match times will be considerate of time differences

2007 RUGBY WORLD CUP MATCH SCHEDULE

September

7 - Pool D, France v Americas 1 (St Denis, Paris).

8 - Pool A, England v Americans 3 (Lens); Pool B, Australia v Asia (Lyon); Pool C, New Zealand v Europe 1 (Marseille).

9 - Pool D, Ireland v Africa (Bordeaux); Pool B, Wales v Americas 2 (Nantes); Pool A, South Africa v Oceania 1 (Parc des Princes, Paris); Pool C, Scotland v Repechage 1 (St Etienne).

11 - Pool D, Americas 1 v Europe 3 (Lyon).

12 - Pool C, Europe 1 v Europe 2 (Marseille); Pool A, America 3 v Repechage 2 (Montpellier); Pool B, Asia v Oceania 2 (Toulouse).

14 - Pool A, England v South Africa (St Denis, Paris).

15 - Pool D, Ireland v Europe 3 (Bordeaux); Pool B, Wales v Australia (Cardiff); Pool C, New Zealand v Repechage 1 (Lyon).

16 - Pool B, Oceania 2 v Americas 2 (Cardiff); Pool A, Oceania 1 v Repechage 2 (Montpellier); Pool D, France v Asia (Toulouse).

18 - Pool C, Scotland v Europe 2 (Edinburgh).

19 - Pool C, Europe 1 v Repechage 1 (Parc des Prices, Paris).

20 - Pool B, Wales v Asia (Cardiff).

21 - Pool D, France v Ireland (St Etienne).

22 - Pool A, South Africa v Repechage 2 (Lens); Pool D, Americas 1 v Africa (Marseille); Pool A, England v Oceania 1 (Nantes).

23 - Pool C, Scotland v New Zealand (Edinburgh); Pool B, Australia v Oceania 2 (Montpellier).

25 - Pool B, Americas 2 v Asia (Bordeaux); Pool C, Europe 2 v Repechage 1 (Toulouse).

26 - Pool D, Europe 3 v Africa (Lens); Pool A, Oceania 1 v Americas 3 (St Etienne).

28 - Pool A, England v Repechage 2 (Parc des Princes, Paris).

29 - Pool B, Australia v Americas 2 (Bordeaux); Pool B, Wales v Oceania 2 (Nantes); Pool C, Scotland v Europe 1 (St Etienne); Pool C, New Zealand v Europe 2 (Toulouse).

30 - Pool D, France v Europe 3 (Marseille); Pool A, South Africa v Americas 3 (Montpellier); Pool D, Ireland v Americas 1 (Parc des Princes, Paris).

October

6 - first quarter-final, winner Pool B v runner-up Pool A (Marseille); second quarter-final, winner Pool C v runner-up Pool D (Cardiff).

7 - third quarter-final, winner Pool A v runner-up Pool B (Marseille); fourth quarter-final, winner Pool D v runner-up Pool C (St Denis, Paris).

13 - first semi-final (St Denis, Paris).

14 - second semi-final (St Denis, Paris).

19 - third place play-off (Parc des Princes, Paris).

20 - final (St Denis, Paris).


More info see: http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/NEWS/050307+SL+rwc+schedule.htm

Nukem

Trojan wrote:

We've got France, the top African side (SA excepted), a European minnow, and an American (USA/Can I'm guessing). All our games are in France.

Jaysus us SA & France. Gonna be a good RWC-bi*ch of a group.
SA hate us and are still bitter over us kicking theirs asses and France the home nation,no pressure there

Trojan

SA _excepted_ - they're automatically qualified. "Africa" means the top African nation with the exception of SA.

MG

Unfortunately, America 1 is going to be Argentina, not the US/Can

Trojan

Yes, you're probably correct there MG - that'll make it 2 easier games, then 2 hard games. At least the draw has worked out nicely for us to peak toward the end of the pool stage.

Downtime

So it's probably:

France
Ireland
Argentina
Georgia
Namibia

I'd still fancy us to qulaify easily and hopefully get top spot. If we get second New Zealand will await us in the Quarter Finals. Ouch.

shelsfan

Originally Posted by RWC2007
- A dynamic RWC, with 44 days of competition and pool matches concentrated over three weeks and four weekends; respect for sporting equity and rest periods for the players with a minimum of 14 rest days during the pool phase.

- Packed stadia and a strong media exposure with 36 matches out of 48 played at weekends. There will not be any matches played at the same time and matches scheduled in weekdays will only be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In order to maximise their media exposure, match times will be considerate of time differences

Good ideas but will 44 days of competition not make the players pretty tired anyway?

[Jackass]

Downtime wrote:

So it's probably:

France
Ireland
Argentina
Georgia
Namibia

I'd still fancy us to qulaify easily and hopefully get top spot. If we get second New Zealand will await us in the Quarter Finals. Ouch.

Yup, pretty much the same deal as last time, the hosts, and best qualifier in the competition (the Argies), a top african side ( not that we should worry too much...although we have lost to namibia twice and only beaten them once :eek:) and a minnow Europe team...once again by far the hardest possible group we could have gotten, but hopefully by then we'll be at the same stage England were at heading into the wc last time (and we're on course for it ), and we can go on to win the group...if we do that, winning the wc outright is deffenatly possible (Quater final of either Scotland or Italy if we win the group, so we should at least see the semi's...if we're second in group, we'll face NZ in the quaters!!!) but obviously, im getting well ahead of ourselves, but no matter what, we're gonna have to do it the hard way.

Downtime

Should be a good trip to France for the RWC - nice and accessable, roll on 2007