Italy captain Sergio Parisse is seeing red after his team’s final Pool B match against New Zealand was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis.
The 36-year-old is also convinced that if the All Blacks had needed to win to make the quarterfinals the game would have gone ahead.
World Rugby on Thursday cancelled Satrurday's All Blacks v Italy game in Toyota City and the England v France tie in Tokyo, citing the potentially destructive typhoon bearing down on Japan.
Italy could have advanced to the quarterfinals by pulling off a massive upset in their game and beating the three-times world champions for the first time as well as securing a bonus point.
But now they are out of the competition after getting two points for a draw as matches were cancelled for the first time in the tournament’s history.
And Parisse says: “If New Zealand needed four or five points against us it would not have been cancelled...
“It is ridiculous that a decision of this nature has been made because it isn’t like the fans arrived yesterday.
“It is ridiculous that there was no Plan B, because it isn’t news that typhoons hit Japan.
“The alternative is Plan B. When you organise a World Cup you should have one in place.
“Sure, everyone might think that Italy versus New Zealand being cancelled counts for nothing because we’d have lost anyway, but we deserved to be respected as a team.
“If Italy and New Zealand decide they don’t want to play, then fine.
“But as I said before, if New Zealand needed the points it wouldn’t have been cancelled.”