Game takes from the weekend:
Canada/NZ: Great show by Canada. NZ is going to win the whole tournament so not shocking to lose by a lot. I felt bad for the Canadian tighthead prop who spent all the scrums in the air, bent in half, looking at his balls.
Eng/Scotland: England is going to have to pull their head out of their ass if they want to advance beyond France. Their kicking is #### and they make far too many handling errors. Scotland really missed Murray against Argentina. If he had played in that game I believe they would have made the QF as well.
Italy/Ireland: Ireland is the dark horse in this tournament imo. They play with a lot of heart and you can see the support they provide to each other during the game. The one that stands out to me was when the number 10 came in an congratulated the tighthead prop after a strong scrum. Italy is the dirtiest rugby team. It is disgusting to see the amount of stamping they do in the ruck and that eye gouge was terrible.
I didn't watch Wales/Fiji or Aus/Rus.
Knockout rounds.
Ire/Wales
Eng/France
SA/Aus
NZ/Arg
Ire/Eng
SA/NZ
NZ/IreIt really sucks that only one of NZ/Aus/SA are able to advance to the finals, they have been the 3 best teams in the tournament imo.
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