World Cup
France 12-17 Argentina

Australia 91-3 Japan
England 28-10 USA
New Zealand 76-14 Italy

Ireland 32-17 Namibia
Scotland 56-10 Portugal
South Africa 59-7 Samoa
Wales 42-17 Canada
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New Zealand certainly lived up to their 'favourites' tag.
Superb victory by Argentina over France.

South Africa came good after a tough start against the always physical Samoans while Australia were dominant and had a fairly easy win over Japan.

Wales and Scotland had dodgy patches but came good while Ireland and England were quite frankly poor.
Wales struggled with Canada and were trailing at half time but in the 2nd half they took control of the game and ran in a few tries. Good game and was impressed by Canada.
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Looks like captain Phil Vickery is out of Englands crunch game against South Africa and it's unlikely that Johnny Wilkinson will play.
I honestly can't see England beating South Africa.

Ireland have the toughest job to qualify as Argentina pulled off an upset over France. Ireland are probably going to need to beat both to qualify. Though if they beat France then they are fine.

Out of the home nations I thought Ireland were going to go far but after a dodgy run-in to the Cup and this latest performance I think were all doomed.

Italy vs Scotland is going to be a huge game.