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It's the classic 'most people who voice an opinion do it to moan'. You cannot blame the recent thrashings at the world cup saying that the tier 2 and 3 nations just don't play enough competitive rugby and then criticise when a competition is put into place to do just that. Well sensible...

Interesting... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67206691

I'd always expect one upset in the quarter finals, but looking at the match ups there simply can't be any. Every game is around 50/50. However in the spirit of making bold predictions just for the hell of it I'm going for Fiji, Argentina, Ireland and France to make it through to the semis.

They're only inexplicable if you don't know the laws of the game.

Well that was jolly fun

Scrums yes, penalties no

Bomb squad putting the Ireland pack to the sword

There has always been forward dominated rugby, and South Africa are the masters of it. Should they lose today it will change nothing at all.

You nearly got me there. Farrell back. A slow predictable and attritional approach then. Though even this approach should make enough gaps to run right through Chile. England really are a hard watch.