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Live blog: World Rugby U20 Championship 2024 in Cape Town – Day Three

ATHLONE, SOUTH AFRICA – 9JULY, 2024: The French U20 team arrive before their match versus Wales (Photo by Carl Fourie/World Rugby)

It is match day three at the World Rugby U20 Championship and the inclement weather in the Cape Town region is reminiscent of the monsoon-like conditions that materialised for the opening round of the age-grade Rugby Championship on the Australian Gold Coast in May.

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While the schedule in South Africa is officially listed as the final round of the pool stage, it’s essentially the quarter-finals in some fixtures as Ireland versus Australia (2pm local time) and France against Wales (4:30pm) in Athlone are winner-takes-all knockout games.

The former will decide who qualifies for the semi-finals as the Pool B winner and the latter will determine who progresses as the sole best runner-up from across the three pools.

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Unbeaten England versus struggling hosts South Africa (7pm) is the third match on the Athlone schedule. Meanwhile, over in Stellenbosch, the three-game programme is Argentina-Fiji (2pm), Georgia-Italy (4:30pm) and New Zealand-Spain (7pm).

RugbyPass previewed all six matches on Monday, listing all the selected teams and hazarding a guess as the potential results – click here to read.

We have also published a match day three talking points feature, which includes the Irish-Aussie rivalry, the French determination to retain their title despite their agonising loss to New Zealand, and the pressure that is on Junior Boks coach Bafana Nhleko – click here to read.

All six matches will be streamed live and for free on RugbyPass TV in all countries that don’t have an exclusive local broadcaster deal – click here to sign up/log in.

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We will also update this RugbyPass live blog throughout the day, bringing you exclusive post-match interviews and more…

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I wouldn’t think the risk is cash flow, as they have large cash reserves they said all through covid.


I suspect the author has it completely wrong as it pertains to the pool as well, because I can’t see the contracts of players changing year to year like revenue does.


I’d imagine there is an agreed principle to a ‘forecast’ figure of revenue for a cyclical period, and this is what 37% or whatever of is used for player salaries. So it would not change whatever that figure is until the next cycle. Cash flow, as you said, would be the main factor, but as they aren’t paid all it once, they’d not be hindered in this manor I don’t believe. Of all the references I’ve seen of a the player pool agreement, not once have I seen any detail on how the amount is determined.


But yes, that would be a very reasoned look at the consequences, especially compared those I’ve seen in articles on this site. Even with turnonver north of $350 million a year, 20 is still a sizeable chunk. Like this RA’s broadcast deal, they might have smaller sponsorship for a short period to align with everything else, then look to develop the deal further heading into the Lions tour cycle? Perhaps trying to take a deal from low to high like that is unlikely to a long term investor, and NZR want to get a good shortterm deal now so they can capitalize on growth for the Lions (i’m assuming that series has consequences on more than just broadcast deals right).

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