Rugby World Cup: Typhoon should not dictate results, says Francois Pienaar
Former Springboks captain Francois Pienaar says it isunfair to allow adverse weather to dictate results in the Rugby World Cup in Japan.
World Rugby due to the threat could, cancels englands match against France, in addition to Scotland game against Japan. If they are cancelled at late notice theyd be declared a draw While theres the choice to transfer the games.
England would not affect considerably as they are through to the quarter-finals, however when the fixture against the tournament hosts of Scotland does not go ahead it will probably finish their World Cup campaign.
The World Cup was won by south Africa in 1995 but they did not make it. Kick-off for the game has been pushed back once Kings Park was hit by torrential rain as well, even though the game eventually went ahead, had play been possible France would have progressed into the last due to their superior disciplinary record after the Boks had two people sent off in a pool match against Canada.
Pienaar has predicted to become flexible in how it approaches the games which are going to be impacted by the weather of Japan.
We were lucky because if this game did not take place in 1995 we were out of this World Cup because of discipline, Pienaar said in the Street Soccer Scotland Annual Dinner in Glasgow.
It just seems unfair, it seems that you want to at least have that game played so which you can get a result.
If weather plays with a dreadful part in the weekend, 1 team will be ecstatic, yet another team is going to be desolate.
Everybody has worked really hard. Why, should you work that hard and also prepare yourself, let weather affect the outcome of the game? It should not.
I could see the problem because its fourteen days, everything is planned and ordered, but there has to be flexibility. When theres bad weather requirements one wants to readjust.
World Rugby is now called a press conference at 12pm local time (4am BST) on Thursday to reveal its plans for its matches involving Scotland and England.
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