I'm an ardent sport's fan, football and Liverpool crazy, Partial to a good game of rugby union and I mean union and I was thrillingly excited by Lewis Hamilton's triumph in Formula 1 on the weekend.
However there are some sports I simply cannot stomach, one of them is cricket, I can't stand the game. A test match I think is about as worse as it gets in terms of a sporting spectacle.
But nothing compares to Rugby League and you only have to look as far as the current World Cup to see what a joke of a sport it is.
It's ludicrous format is the most outrageous set of rules I have ever seen.
Group A of three consists of four teams where the top three in the group automatically qualify for the semi-final.
That's three of the four semi-final spot's taken up and there's still two groups left, what kind of set up is that?
The other remaining two groups which consists of three teams sees the winners from each group face each other in a playoff to qualify for the one remaining semi-final spot, hardly fair is it!
So what do the RFL do? They shove the apparently three best teams (England, Australia and New Zealand) in group A with unheard of rugby league minnows Papa New Guinea who become the whipping boy's of the tournament.
Why don't they just cut the middle man out and put those three sides straight into the semi-finals, it's basically what there doing anyway.
What happened to a good old fashioned random World Cup draw?
All they have to do is beat New Guinea and there you go well done you have reached a World Cup semi final, what a farce!
Whereas Ireland and Scotland have to battle it out winning three games on the trot before they reach the latter stages.
And England didn't even beat Papa New Guinea that convincingly then got stuffed by Australia, maybe the RFL should think about revising the list for the exclusive Group A club.
I'll be watching a lot of Sport this weekend, but the Rugby League certainly won't feature on my agenda, how could it it's the start of the Union Autumn internationals.
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Have to agree, it's absolutely ridiculous. Seeding takes a lot of the fun and unpredictability out of many major sporting events, but the system used by the Rugby League World Cup this year is unprecedented in its lunacy. If the RL powers-that-be continue along a similar path they will drive fans away from the sport.
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