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Originally Posted by Jazzy Foot
The England Ireland game in reality was the decider so for England to claim feeling hard done by I find to be rather silly.
As far as the RWC is concerned can't really see past another New Zealand win and then maybe South Africa. Ireland never really perform well at the RWC, Wales could surprise, England will come unstuck eventually assuming they actually progress from the group. One of the worst French teams in a while and then there's Australia. It will obviously be one of those teams.
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A champion has to be crowned and that's just the way it is. In a tournament where each team has a different number of home and away games, and play different teams home and away, the only fair way to crown a champion when teams have the same record would be to share the title. But that would be boring and nobody would go for that.
As for the World Cup, New Zealand are the obvious choice but still have a lot to prove about whether they can do it on foreign soil. I'm not sure if they can. It's anyone's game after them.