Rugby World Cup packages to tour with other spectators and players to take part in the ultimate festival of rugby will appeal to followers of the game. Every four years the World Cup tournament comes around. This is like a climax that aficionados will patiently wait for. It builds up over years, months, weeks, days, and hours until the moment of the finals kick-off. Many people will save assiduously for years o be part of a tour.

A party of rugby followers is likely to be a diverse group. The game knows no social, physical or psychological barriers. Quick small people have become legends of the game. Giants, both tall and wide, are central to the scrum and normal men are needed on the flanks. It is known as the gentlemen\’s game for hooligans and both types are likely to be represented in any game.

First held in 1987 the tournament has been repeated every four years since then and has grown from sixteen to twenty nations. Spectators will be intrigued by the composition of each of the four pools. Some will not be able to afford the finals but will follow their own nation\’s team until it is knocked out. That will not happen before it has at least had a crack at upsetting some on the main contenders.

There is a north – south divide in rugby. The game started in England when the famous Web-Ellis got tired of playing soccer, picked up a ball and ran with it. Northern teams from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Georgia, Romania, Russia and Italy will be fierce contenders. South Africa, New Zealand and Australia are the major contenders from the southern hemisphere but Fiji, Samoa and Tonga quite capable of upsetting any one of them.

The Americas will field three teams, from Canada, Argentina and the USA. So many nations, with the diversity of individuals within them will make up a microcosm of people united by their interest in a game. This will be an opportunity to experience unity in diversity.

The World cup is organized in a way that ensures keen competition from the first game to the final one. Each pool has one obviously strong team with several others that could conceivably upset the apple cart. Pool A has New Zealand, pool B has England, pool C has Australia and Pool D has South Africa. These are regarded as the strongest teams but any one could be upset in the early stages and not even get into the final stages of the competition.

South Africa is the current rugby champion of the world having won the last event. However, media commentators usually rank New Zealand as the strongest country, even though it has only won the contest once, way back in 1987 when South Africa was not invited.

People who book to go on one of the Rugby World Cup packages will enjoy the razzmatazz of the games and opportunities to dress up and perform for the TV cameras. All this can be done within the ambit of the tournament and the security of people who are driven by a common passion. The thrill of gladiatorial contests will be there, but blessedly without the killing.

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