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New Zealand crush Canada 63-0 at Rugby World Cup 2019.
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Rugby in North America is very underdeveloped BUT this has more to do with New Zealand being above everyone else.
Not that funny. The only team sports the US and Canada play to a decent standard are the ones where the entire sport revolves around the US and Canada
Makes, sense, nobody cares about rugby here. Ice hockey, Canadian football, American football, soccer, basketball and baseball are all more popular here.
No it doesn't. England, South Africa, Australia and France all likely would have posted significant points. The gulf between North America and those powerhouses is huge.
Canada and the US are arguably two of the worst teams in the world cup. It's the equivalent of bragging about a top 5 soccer world cup team beating a team beating Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Eh, Canada is really only good at hockey and curling (obviously other winter themed team sports like speed skating, etc as well) at the national level, and both of those sports are big in Nordic countries. Then you have basketball where besides the Americans, Europe has some really competitive national teams, and if I'm not mistaken Argentina were also decent too. Baseball is also another sport America dominates but is also played extensively elsewhere in Latin America and Asia, and those regions have fielded good teams as well. So it seems as if you're basing your whole point around American Football lol.
Fair enough. Now let's see how New Zealand fair in Ice Hockey against Canada or some other sport where Canada actually has a national interest.
It's funny how NA gets an easy ride to the world cup. We really shouldn't because we suck a lot. Should be hard like getting to the handball world cup, which of course we never make it.
US is good at volleyball, water polo, field hockey (women's) and nobody cares about those sports, but your point still stands. It's not incorrect.
Hockey is the national sport of Canada. And I don't consider curling a team sport. I actually don't even view it as a sport but that's neither here nor there. The poster's point is correct, but that's true for most countries though with the exception of some European countries who can field a decent team in pretty much every team sport.
I mean, even in an sport like football where mexico and the usa are not that good, they still could sometimes pass to the next round, or at least win one game . In rugby those teams get wrecked hard, like they were a tiny country from oceania who managed to go to the football world cup because Australia decided to play in Asia
When I was in school in Canada, rugby was more popular. Most high schools didn't have football or baseball programs. Obviously rugby has declined in Canada and other countries have thrived. That score is embarassing, but yeah, Canadians don't really care. It's not a high priority sport in Canada.
Why is it funny? Different sports are popular in different areas of the world.
There is a rugby world cup thread:
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Rugby World Cup 2019 |OT| Japan 20th September – 2nd November
Rugby is a rugged, tough, elegant game. It may only be the national sport of Georgia, Madagascar, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales (and Fiji if you count the 7-a-side version), but it is played all over the world. Seventy-nine international teams took part in qualifying tournaments around the...
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A try (think a touchdown but the ball actually has to literally touch down for it to count) is worth 5 points. Presumably there are other ways to score that are worth fewer points, but that's where my knowledge of Rugby ends.
Wales were No. 1 ranked a couple of months ago, also won the Six Nations this year, and the Triple Crown.
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How can we forget about soccer!?
Might get one against team canada. Would get a few against any Canadian nhl team though
Yet the US consistently wins more golds in both the summer and winter Olympics. Or do those not count?
I may be off here, but it's easier to pull an upset in soccer than in Rugby. You can park the bus and if the superior team is having a bad day, one counter or deflection the other way and you win the game 1-0. Isn't that how Mexico beat Germany in 2018? I don't see how you can park the bus in rugby and the better team will win more often than not.
You get the ball back after you score a try/touchdown.
So you can roll the entire game.
US has basketball if their best players decide to play.
China has diving, table tennis and badminton which is no less international than rugby.
Hockey sure, but probably not baseball. Softball is popular in New Zealand so they wouldn't completely suck at baseball.
Possession overturns more frequently between evenly matched teams though so you can't just hog the ball/run down the clock. Teams can only steam roll to nil if they have incredible ball retention.
So is basketball, but it's also the case that both sports largely originated in North America, and their top professional leagues are located there.
The US Men's Fencing Foil team right now has a legitimate argument for being the all-around GOAT team. They don't win every tournament because sports go as they go, but they are incredibly consistent and I'd totally argue are the strongest team right now.