I'd go with omnishambles myself, but I agree about the uncertainty.fourthirtythree wrote:I'll have a look at that paper later on today Dave.
We can argue at great length about what will happen but the truth is we don't know yet. If you use one word (and it not be clusterfuck) to describe the situation I think it would be "uncertainty": and that word is the enemy of plans and organisation. If you were world rugby could you, in all conscience, allow Ireland's bid to succeed?
I mean if you were the IOC, no problem so long as the baksheesh/fruit and flowers was sufficient, but I don't think rugby has got the infection yet.
Look, I'm not saying that the CTA WILL go, personally I don't think it will (as I still think the UK won't exit), but of the options open to the UK - Stay, 'Norway', 'Switzerland' and 'Turkey, only two of them allow for the retention of the CTA and those are two the electorate specifically don't want. And that uncertainty is, as you say yourself, the problem.
Its not even uncertainty about big issues like the CTA that will kill it, its uncertainty about a thousand small issues and their effects that will be the problem. Heres an example that might seem small, but if you add it to 999 other things, it becomes big. At every game in the RWC the stadium is surrounded by booths selling gimcracks and doodads and the host cities all have popup shops selling same (a massive success in the last world cup). How do you get the stuff to Belfast, how do you get the money back from Belfast. Will they still be in the EU, the EEA, EFTA or none of the above. RIght now theres no real difference between sending something to Limerick, or sending something to Belfast, will that still be the situation in 2023? What about people working for RWC based in Belfast as a host city. Will they need working visas, different contracts? You can't plan in that kind of circumstance.
If I were a WR board member, I couldn't for the good of the sport vote for Irelands bid as things stand