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Typhoon heads nearer Tokyo ahead of big Rugby World Cup weekend

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By Laurence Chu

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Holding the Rugby World Cup in the middle of the typhoon season was always a risk. If a team is knocked out by the weather, there will surely be massive doubts as to Japan hosting any future sporting events. Sport has to be decided by play. Japan’s credibility is on the line here.

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I know England hosted the 2015 World Cup from Sept 18 onward but they don't have typhoons, not is it hot and humid this time of year.

You could probably host it in any month of the year in England and it would be fine.

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But the referee decided at this moment he was going to implement this rule.

I've defended Samoa's decision to take the scrum in a previous post, but I agree that the ref's decision to penalize the put-in was a little odd.

Come on ye weather gods!

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Man and this was the only weekend I had tickets. I was looking forward to drinking 700yen Heinekens and hopefully see the U.S. get double digits in scoring.

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As of 10:00 pm the picture caption is still ‘tropical cyclone’, but this is already being described as the most violent typhoon this year.

Let us hope that it bends further and further east.

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Quite bizzare actually that only Pool matches (1st round) can be cancelled.

And in a WORLD Champions tournament, spread over 6 weeks or so, that postponement time could not be slotted into or allowed for in the schedule, is nothing short of totally inadequate.

If you organize such a World event in the typhoon season in Japan - where there is no "perhaps a typhoon will come" but a definitive "typhoons will come", then common sense dictates that alternative plans are necessary.

A "shouganai" it can't be helped 2 points all, it's a draw, is not a plan.

Weak.

Hopefully all teams will get a chance to strut their stuff.

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Even if the typhoon does effect some matches this weekend I would still say that the World Cup has been a success. I wasn’t expecting to see as much interest as there has been - a lot of it goes down to Japan downing Ireland.

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It's a shame they can't move the England-France and Japan-Scotland games to Sapporo Dome, but of course that's impossible.

Once again, as with the 2020 Olympics, we see the folly of picking the wrong time of year for the tournament. Instead of starting it in September when it is the typhoon season and still hot and humid, it should have started around October 18.

I know England hosted the 2015 World Cup from Sept 18 onward but they don't have typhoons, not is it hot and humid this time of year.

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This shows that the organisers really should have considered typhoon season. It could cancel matches and disrupt fans travel. Any sensible organiser would have held this in November to December.

Similar problems with Olympics organisers hosting in the heat of summer with overpopulated city transportation.

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Never mind the ball games, what about the poor people of Chiba; are they going to get soaked/blown sideways/blacked out again? I understand some 1000+ homes are still without power from the last typhoon.

On a personal note - another wet, windy weekend keeping me off the allotment. It's been a pretty miserable summer for veggie growers. First there was too much rain and not enough sunshine, then there was too much sunshine and too much heat, and now we're back to too much wet. Grrr.

I hate typhoons.

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Looking a bit like the weekend will could be a little wet. Anyone know what happens if they cancel - do you get your money back on tickets?

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I want to see Japan v All Blacks, so what sort of typhoon trajectory could ensure that?

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half of the year we need to deal with (a lot of) humidity + rain (translation: summer is a mess) and typhoons. been waiting for "normal" weather since June. i hope it won,t affect any games, i,d feel really bad for the Scottish.

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@Nobnaga,

Let me help you. A direct quote from the article you failed to read. "It is forecast to weaken before it nears Japan but will still be "very strong"..

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Why does It often struck during the weekend? It is even worse since this week we have a long weekend...

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Cancelling the game would be very unfair for Scotland. I'm sure they'd have no complaints if they were eliminated fair and square by a defeat, but surely there would be no problem postponing the match for a day or two, even if the crowd was much smaller and tv schedules disrupted a little. Here's hoping Japan do the right thing and refuse a 0-0 result.

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i hope its not going to be strong

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