The Rugby World Cup enters the knockout stages this weekend with some enticing match-ups in store, but Namibia’s Welwitschias have already returned home after their campaign ended in familiar fashion. Those defeats against Tier One rugby nations may have been expected, but their defeat against fellow Tier Two nation, Uruguay, was a bitter pill to swallow. “We were not invited to the world cup, we qualified through Africa, so we deserved to be there. “Namibia was denied one of its best chances to break what is now a 26-match Rugby World Cup duck … it has taken the edge off what could have been the most interesting Rugby World Cup ever staged,” it said. I would say the great nations need to make money and to fill the stadium,” he said.
