Winners Must Lose, Losers Need To Win For Rugby To Grow
Good teams learn their lesson and rise from defeat. Being on the receiving end time and time again deflates our interest in the game.
Rugby will be a bigger beneficiary if it continues to be a well contested sport. Winners need to lose and losers need to win to keep rugby alive, kicking and entertaining.
That fires up our interest and the last thing fans want is to be bored to death by one team’s domination over others.
Rugby needs competition and there is no point in one team being much better than everybody else because it doesn’t create interest.
Unfortunately, that’s the trend in the world of rugby at the moment.
The All Blacks have been dominating The Rugby Championship ever since the drawn test series against the British and Irish Lions last year.
And the trend is likely to continue this year with the All Blacks showing their superiority over others. The Wallabies, Springboks and Pumas have all tried their best but succumbed in the end not only because of their power and brilliance of the All Blacks, but their ability to take advantage of opportunities and execute it to perfection.
It is almost likely that the current flow will continue in the 2019
Rugby World
Cup in Tokyo and the All
Blacks could be the first team to win the William Webb Ellis
Trophy for the third consecutive term.
Again, the old enemies England, Australia, Ireland and South Africa could make the semifinals. And that is why it is important that other countries need to buck the trend.
As for our Fiji Airways Flying Fijians, we need to get past our Cup quarterfinal wins in 1987 and 2007 to breathe life into our national sport.
This means we have to make the top two in Pool D ,which comprised Australia, Wales, Uruguay and Georgia where we will play either New Zealand or South Africa in the Cup quarterfinal.
We need to break the barrier and go beyond to keep our interest in the game.
Our Fiji Airways Fijian 7s team must rediscover their winning mojo when the World Sevens Series resumes in November after South Africa and New Zealand won the series, Commonwealth Games and the Rugby Sevens World Cup.
Not winning the three tournaments this year should instill the hunger for coach Gareth Baber’s men to strike back and keep our interest in rugby’s short code.
Also our Fiji Airways Fijiana 7 team should create a new era on the Women’s Sevens Series, which resumes next month and put them in the spotlight after a dismal run over the years.
Our Fiji Airways Fijian Drua suffered their first loss in the Australian National Rugby Championship yesterday and must strike back against Sydney Rays next Saturday.
Good teams learn their lesson and rise from defeat. Being on the receiving end time and time again deflates our interest in the game.
The beauty of losing is there is that every chance to win in the next attempt.
Our Fiji Airways Fijian Drua suffered their first loss in the National Rugby Championship yesterday and must strike back against Sydney Rays next Saturday.