COMMENT: Even though Scotland got their match, Canada didn't, nor did Namibia, nor did Italy, nor did the All Blacks, England, and France. But what you simply can't escape out of this whole exercise is the damage that rugby has done to itself.
No, Scotland won't be calling in the lawyers, but they along with a number of the other teams were, and some still are, quite rightly pretty ropeable.
No, Namibia playing Canada was not going to change anything. But that's not the point, that was never the point. This is the sport's global showpiece and the chasm in it was laid bare with the cancellations. Italy have gone home heartbroken.
Comments have been made about some of the heavyweight teams, namely the All Blacks who, it has been suggested by more than one participant, are treated differently and are viewed differently. The inference is Scotland were potentially collateral damage that the organisers could have lived with, whereby the All Blacks simply could not have been.
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