Rugby World Cup 2007

The Rugby World Cup is upon us, so it’s time to have a look at the major teams in this tournament, I’ll start by listing them by world ranking and a quick thought on their prospects.

Rank 1: New Zealand – hot favourites, but aren’t they always

2: Australia – not the second best team in the world, but have a habit of over achieving

3: France – who knows, but they can beat anyone when they’re on

4: South Africa – not dangerous enough to beat the All Blacks, but structured enough to beat France

5: Argentina – higher ranked then I’ve seen before

6: Ireland – don’t think so have France and Argentina in their pool

7: England - not even Johnny Drop goal can win this one for them

8: Wales – easy pool, but can’t win the whole thing

9: Italy – the guys who can’t play soccor are in this team

10: Scotland - nope

11: Samoa – if your good you play for the All Blacks

12: Fiji – ditto above

13: Canada – a few expats

14: Tonga – if your good you play for the All Blacks

15: USA – they don’t know why they are here and their entire country doesn’t know they’re here

16:Your local subbies team would probably fit about here and be a chance of a top ten spot if they could keep off the drink!!

17: A country you never thought played rugby

18: A bunch of guys that shouldn’t play rugby

19: These guys don’t have boots

20: This team still use the orange peels from half time as mouth guards (come on we all did once)

So here are the pool breakdowns.

Pool A
ENG
RSA
SAM
USA
TGA

Pool B
AUS
WAL
FJI
CAN
JPN

Pool C
NZL
SCO
ITA
ROM
POR

Pool D
FRA
IRE
ARG
GEO
NAM