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After a two-month training camp and three warm-up Test matches, the audition process is over and Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend must decide which 31 men to entrust with the nation's hopes at the World Cup in Japan next month.
Townsend announces his squad on Tuesday and, while many could be considered stick-ons, there are a few marginal calls for the coaching team to make. Read full report
Townsend reveals his squad and mentioned "Scotland can match anyone at Rugby World Cup"
The opening game of the RWC kicks off on Friday, September 20, in Tokyo. There are four - A, B, C, D - containing five teams each. Eddie Jones' side feature in Pool C along with Argentina, France, USA and Tonga. Scotland are in Pool A with Ireland, Japan, Russia and Samoa. Wales, meanwhile, will be taking on Australia, Georgia, Fiji and Uruguay in D
1,8 million tickets will change hands and 400,000 rugby fans will descend on the Land of the Rising Sun from 20 September.
"Winning the world cup through kicking, line-out domination and pure shithousary". Now its time to Rugby.........
Japan Vs Russia match going so excited. Japan takes the lead of 20-7. let's wait for the turning point.
Rugby World Cup 2019 New Zealand vs South Africa.......Amazing match...
The half results make it one-sided match today as Wales first-half blitz ensures victory over Georgia in Rugby World Cup.
Winner: New Zealand
I think New Zealand will win the World Cup unless England can manufacture a second place in the group. If England lose to France in the final game they go into the better side of the draw become eventual winners.
There is always a match of this type in the World Cups where a team wrongly underestimate the opponent........We can't say who will win Rugby World Cup Final.
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Joseph goes on another lovely, twisty, quicksilver run down the right, but his kick infield at the end of it is just too long for Ford.
South Africa v Namibia Highlights so far
TRY! South Africa 24 - 3 Namibia. Mapimpi
PENALTY! South Africa 19 - 3 Namibia. Cliben Loubser
TRY! South Africa 19 - 0 Namibia. Mbonambi.
YELLOW CARD! Adriaan Booysen, Namibia.
South Africa 12 - 0 Namibia. Francois Louw
TRY! South Africa 7 - 0 Namibia. Mbonambi
Elton Jantjies absolutely spanners his attempt at touch and puts it touch in goal. So it’ll be a Namibia scrum back from where he kicked in on the 10m line.
Joseph's pride as magnificent japan stun Ireland in world cup classic
Make no mistake Japan was the better rugby team watching them over the next 10 years is going to be very exciting. If Japan beat Scotland then the group then the QF's will be Ireland vs All Blacks and Japan vs the Boks which is the dream quarter-finals for the neutral! Well done you Cherry Blossoms!
wednesday 02 october two matches
france v usa
new zealand v canada
For the first time in eight years, England will tomorrow go into the unfamiliar territory of a Rugby World Cup quarter-final, and few – if any – know what will happen. Only four of the current squad know what knockout World Cup rugby feels like, while it has been even longer since Eddie Jones had that quarter-final feeling.
If England fail this weekend, the likelihood is that Jones will be sacked for falling short of expectations, and four years of rebuilding English rugby will have gone to waste. In the hills of Beppu, north of Oita where England will take on the Wallabies, Jones drew on the history of the samurai spirit to make it abundantly clear that he is aware of what is at stake.
“You know it’s do-or-die time,” he said. “You see those hills at the back of us? That’s where all the samurais lived. Every time the samurais fought, one lived and one died. It will be the same on Saturday; someone is going to live and someone is going to die.
South Africa beat England 32−12 in the Rugby World Cup Final to claim their third title, equalling New Zealand's record. South Africa also became the first team to win the title after losing a match in the pool stage.