The Rugby World Cup being held in New Zealand

So this years Rugby World cup is being held in New Zealand, one of the eternal power houses of rugby and to most it will seem fair that they have their chance to host this moderately sized sporting event.

But whoooa, hold on minute, what time do the games kick off? 5, 6 o'clock in the morning GMT - well how bloody inconvenient of you New Zealand! I didn't even realise the clock went to these times in the morning, so deep in my slumber I am at these times!

So who's fault is it? The IRU? New Zealand? No, i blame the person devising the god awfully complicated time system across the world time and the tectonic plates for moving New Zealand to practically nowhere - I'm surprised the place got found as quickly as it did, as it's not exactly close to Australia in nautical terms and surely any explorer that had bother to get as far as Australia would have said enough of this and turned back home?

Work does really need to go into finding a way to bring New Zealand closer to the rest of the World as it's a really nice place (I've heard) but a 56 hour flight is not of interest to me at all and making an artoficial all around the world sun so that we can all use the same time.

Yes the New Zealand people could appease us Northern Hemashpere watchers by moving the kick off times so they are inline with our normal watching times such as 7 / 8pm in the evening, even if that does mean they have to play the games at 3 / 4 am - they're not totally blameless in this.

Hopefully they do a good job in hosting and no doubt the All-Blacks will sparkle all the way to the final before falling flat and losing in the final to 'those nice guys from South Africa' but sadly I won't be watching a my eyes wouldn't function at that time even if I wanted to.