Rugby

[mayo hibee]

No, but it weakens his argument/protestations that the Scotland game should go ahead. In his own words, if it can't be played on the day it will have to be called a draw.

Hopefully it will go ahead as the storm should have passed by then but you can see how the Japanese might be in no rush to fulfil the fixture and if transport systems etc. are not back fully running they will feel justified in calling it off and taking the two points needed to qualify.

[Mantis Toboggan]

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No, but it weakens his argument/protestations that the Scotland game should go ahead. In his own words, if it can't be played on the day it will have to be called a draw.

Hopefully it will go ahead as the storm should have passed by then but you can see how the Japanese might be in no rush to fulfil the fixture and if transport systems etc. are not back fully running they will feel justified in calling it off and taking the two points needed to qualify.

Ultimately it is not going to matter what Townsend has said as a precedent has now been set anyway with the cancellation rather than rescheduling of 2 games.
As I said in my other posts, it would also mean Ireland coming 2nd in the group and getting NZ in the quarters, so I would suggest that it is very much in Irelands interest that the game gets played as well.