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Poll - Who will win the Rugby World Cup 2019 ?
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 956052" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>I get his logic though. It all hinges on our performance against the AB's, and to a latter extent Italy.</p><p></p><p>Should we lose against the AB's, and end up 2nd in our pool, we'll be a little bit undercooked by the time we face Ireland. Our last pool match is against Canada, and we finish our match with them 3 days prior to the last pool matches. We'll have 10 day to prepare for our QF, and should it be Ireland, we could run into a complacency problem. </p><p></p><p>But with that said, we have a pretty good record against NH teams at world cups, and tend to come out on top no matter how poor we are. I think of the last 2 games we had against Wales in the World Cup. The last being the QF in 2015 when it took a wonder pass from Fourie Du Preez to put Duane Vermeulen in at the corner, and in 2011 it was Du Preez who gave a great offload to Francois Hougaard to score under the posts.</p><p></p><p>We don't have Du Preez around this time to save our bacon though. So the hope is there that a new X-factor player steps up and gets us through the really tough situations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 956052, member: 40658"] I get his logic though. It all hinges on our performance against the AB's, and to a latter extent Italy. Should we lose against the AB's, and end up 2nd in our pool, we'll be a little bit undercooked by the time we face Ireland. Our last pool match is against Canada, and we finish our match with them 3 days prior to the last pool matches. We'll have 10 day to prepare for our QF, and should it be Ireland, we could run into a complacency problem. But with that said, we have a pretty good record against NH teams at world cups, and tend to come out on top no matter how poor we are. I think of the last 2 games we had against Wales in the World Cup. The last being the QF in 2015 when it took a wonder pass from Fourie Du Preez to put Duane Vermeulen in at the corner, and in 2011 it was Du Preez who gave a great offload to Francois Hougaard to score under the posts. We don't have Du Preez around this time to save our bacon though. So the hope is there that a new X-factor player steps up and gets us through the really tough situations. [/QUOTE]
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