Mike Averis
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New Zealand are favoured to triumph at Twickenham, with their tendency to choke now in the past, but Australia are a force at the breakdown and have been hungry in this tournament
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Will the weather come to South Africa’s aid against the indomitable All Blacks? And can the flying Argentinians make it two big performances in a row when they play Australia?
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Argentina will play Australia in their Rugby World Cup semi-final after a 43-20 win in Cardiff, snuffing out an Ireland fightback to within three points from 20-3 down
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Argentina have added large doses of adventure to their long-standing love of the scrum and collision to run in the tries
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Tonga’s attacking flair proved too much for a resilient Namibia as the Pacific Islanders came out 35-21 winners in a breathless Rugby World Cup try-fest at Sandy Park
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Tonga face Namibia on Tuesday hoping to get their World Cup campaign back on track after losing to Georgia but Epi Taione believes there are still problems that World Rugby needs to address
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Argentina and their full-back Santiago Cordero stretched their legs and coasted past Georgia
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Mark Bennett grabbed two tries while John Hardie, Tommy Seymour and Finn Russell also went over as Scotland streaked clear of Japan in the second half to clinch a 45-10 victory
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An unlikely win for Canada, strength in adversity from Japan, and a torrid time for Uruguay are just a few of the things we can expect at the Rugby World Cup
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The record-breaking 48-7 win over Italy at Murrayfield provided the coach with few answers as he struggles to decide on the balance between forwards and backs in his squad
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Scotland will head to Paris for their final warm-up game buoyed by a second victory over Italy that included six tries
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Greig Laidlaw said the Scotland coach Vern Cotter ‘keeps you on your toes’ in the countdown to announcing their World Cup squad
Topics
- Rugby World Cup 2015
- Rugby World Cup
- Rugby union
- Scotland rugby union team
- Argentina rugby union team
- Australia rugby union team
- Australia sport
- Tonga rugby union team
- Ireland rugby union team
- New Zealand rugby union team
- Japan rugby union team
- Italy rugby union team
- England rugby union team
- Namibia rugby union team
- Georgia rugby union team
- France rugby union team
- Samoa rugby union team
- Wales rugby union team
- South Africa rugby team
- Fiji rugby union team
Sportblog Rugby World Cup 2015: Guardian writers’ teams of the tournament