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I went for a wales -ireland world cup final which is not as far fetched as it initally seems. ireland will win their group and end up playing georgia who will shock a struggling puma side and go through as runners up in their group. Samoa will pip scotland and go tru behind south africa and will get the aussies in q f . while wales i believe will knock england out and go through behind australia and will play and beat s africa in q f. . The french will struggle in the group stages and finish second in their group behing ireland but in typical french style will ignite in a classic q f match to knock out the all blacks again .While a steady but conserative ireland side will be way to good for the rapidly emerging georgians. The semis will see entertaining wales defeat a fiery france in a feriocious 6 nations style contest . Mean while ireland will stick rigidly to the schmidt plan and will just get over the australians whoes pack will cost them yet again in a big game.
So then we are all set for a celtic showdown like never before , high skilled wales against highly disiplined ireland and i have no idea what so ever which of them will come out on top.
gonna to be brilliant. lol love to hear opinions on it all.
Wales won’t make it out of Group A.
France will arse about in the long grass waiting to meet NZ in QF’s. They will lose to CAN and ROM but still somehow manage to qualify and face NZ. They will be transformed and run up a cricket score in the first half and won’t bother to come out for the second – obviously being the superior team. NZ will go through by default – thereby the french will have shamed themselves and NZ – only the French can think this way – no point in trying to understand the deviousness of it. France know they can’t win two matches in a row so this way they can place a ruddy great big ? mark over the eventual winners……. IRELAND
PEU PEU! Shots!!!!! Fired!!!!! bring it on!!!!!!!
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well you certainly got that one wrong
Georgia beat Argentina now I know your deluded.
Also top of Group A meets top of group B in the semis not the final
A – W vs B – RU
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D – W vs C – RU
B -W vs A – RU
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C – W vs D – RU
I think it will be whoever tops group A vs NZ in the final and then it all comes down to whether NZ hold their nerve or get the RWC jitters
As for Group A any of the three could win it. Australia looking better than the last few years, Wales big tournament temprement and Englands Home advantage could go any which way
whoops should read
Also top of Group A meets top of group D in the semis not the final
What jitters? NZ have won 1 more WC than England & 2 more than the rest of the NH teams. Does this mean that the NH had the jitters in almost all prev WC’s?
Past history (looking backwards again! Famous English disease?), can count for v little. A distraction IOW.
As for the oldest chestnut in the book, France, well NZ put them out of 2 WC finals.
Relatively recent, consistent success, or relative failure, may hold some psychological advantage or scars depending on a team’s history.
It’s the 1/4 finals plus that matter. Once there, it depends more on the actual day.
err… because i’m judging them based on how they should have performed based on their comparative quality to the rest of the world… Obviously. England peaked in 2003 but have never been anywhere near good enough to win before or since
They are after all to Rugby what Brazil are to Football.
What should have, could have, might have happened is 1 thing, what does actually happens can be another.
Past history is only an issue, relatively ‘speaking’, if a team lets it be & it can be a distraction to dwell on the past. It’s the here & now & what’s ahead that counts.