{"id":277562,"date":"2025-11-22T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277562\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:10:09","slug":"big-early-news-in-rugby-world-cup-pool-seedings-as-sides-swap-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277562\/","title":{"rendered":"Big early news in Rugby World Cup pool seedings as sides swap bands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> seeding news has landed early this weekend with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/georgia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> swapping banding places.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Jones\u2019 Japan beat Georgia 25-23 in Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Tbilisi, with both sides swapping positions at 12th and 13th in the World Rugby rankings.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Georgia drops from 12th to 13th, and crucially into the third band of the teams ahead of the Rugby World Cup pool seedings draw on December 3.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a big blow for Richard Cockerill\u2019s side as it means Georgia will find themselves in an effective pool of death at Rugby World Cup 2027. They will face off against both a top-seeded team and a second-seeded side, as per the six-team bands.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, it\u2019s great news for Japan, who are now safe in the second band of six teams between seventh and twelfth.<\/p>\n<p>A converted try from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/dylan-riley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Riley<\/a> and seven penalties from fly-half <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/seungsin-lee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seungsin Lee<\/a> were enough to see Japan past the Georgians.<\/p>\n<p>A late surge from the hosts seemed to have won the game for the Lelos, but penalty in the 80th minute for Lee sealed a memorable victory for Eddie Jones\u2019 side.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, New Zealand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> have already booked their spots in Band 1 and they were joined last weekend by Argentina, who are now safely in the top six following their shock comeback victory against over Scotland. <\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t drop out even if they are hammered by England this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s 33-24 defeat at home to Los <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/pumas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pumas<\/a> has officially ended any hopes Gregor Townsend\u2019s team had of breaking into the top six and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/fiji\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiji<\/a> have also dropped out of the race after losing 34-21 to France. <\/p>\n<p>The big result this weekend, however, is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/france\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> could pontentially dropped the second band if they lose to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> in Paris by 16 points or more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Significant Rugby World Cup seeding news has landed early this weekend with Georgia and Japan swapping banding places.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-277562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}