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1 Ununderstandable, childish language
2 Bias against Japanese
3 removed section
4 Women's rugby

[edit] Ununderstandable, childish language

I his the whole second section as it was written by a semi-illiterate (if even I can notice it, who am Italian!!!)... if somebody has will to rewrite it into something meaningful... --Attilios 09:32, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias against Japanese

To Wiki Admins,

Please investigate the disgusting diatribe against Japanese team in the rankings table.

--85.28.114.158 16:45, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I think you may have missed the point here. The IRB do the tables, not anyone editing on here. --Nunners 20:39, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

IRB does the tables, officially, but some idiot wrote a bunch of rather unsporting and rude comments about the Japanese team, for what reason I cannot comprehend. Look at the history. --85.28.74.246 17:00, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I cannot find any diatribe - and I have looked at the history. Please be more precise. --Bob 16:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removed section

I removed the following from the main article, as I am not convinced it really belongs:

The lead of the article states "The IRB World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in rugby union". This info relates to women's rugby
The rankings aren't even IRB endorsed, are not official, and thus don't belong under "IRB world rankings"
The european rankings again aren't IRB, and aren't world rankings.

Nouse4aname (talk) 15:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Although the lead states that the article concerns ranking for "men's national teams" the main title does not, and either at least begs the question as to how women's teams are ranked (or whether they are). To ignore women's teams, or to work on the assumption that "IRB World Rankings" will only refer to the game as played by one sex or the other is not a sustainable point of view in the 21st century.

As a result, even if it may be considered superfluous to include the paragraphs objected to, at the very least there should be some mention of the situation in the women's game.

Johnlbirch (talk) 21:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Women's rugby

Currently the IRB does not compile a similar ranking system for women's international rugby. Where rankings are referred to by some boards these will normally be the finishing positions in the previous Women's Rugby World Cup, which only takes place every four years and will only include those countries that qualified for the finals. Seedings for each World Cup are also influenced by these positions, but not entirely decided by them. The rankings based on the 2006 tournament are:

1: New Zealand
2: England
3: France
4: Canada
5: United States
6: Scotland
7: Australia
8: Ireland
9: Spain
10: Samoa
11: Kazakhstan
12: South Africa

FIRA-AER do produce an annual ranking of European nations, based on previous season's FIRA and Six Nations competitions, for use in FIRA tournaments. As these will be based on more recent performances they can contradict the IRB list and also include countries not featuring in the World Cup-based ranking (such as Wales, for example). On the other hand they obviously only include European nations. The rankings for start of the 2007/2008 season^[1] (based on results in 2006/2007) were:

1: England
2: France
3: Spain
4: Wales
5: Scotland
6: Ireland
7: Netherlands
8: Sweden
9: Italy
10: Russia
11: Belgium
12: Germany
13: Romania
14: Finland
15: Luxembourg
16: Norway
17: Serbia