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World Cup 2015 Knock Out Stages Prediction
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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 735375" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>Increasingly I'm beginning to think SA will be up against winning this RWC. Too many injuries to key experienced leaders like Vermeulen, Alberts, De Villiers, Du Preez, Matfield who will have not have a lot of time to get back and play enough rugby before RWC begins; that and their Super rugby teams were very poor this year. Players like De Jager, Cotzee, Pollard, De Allande, Kriel are still pretty inexperienced.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>On paper yes, but there are always a few twists and turns at RWC and it never pans out that way. Pool A is just too close to call, runner's up spot in Pool B is between Samoa and Scotland, pool D, well my money is still on Ireland to top it and France to finish runner's up, but still France do have the players to win pool D and then it changes the dynamics of the QFs. </p><p></p><p>I will never forget 2007 when everyone expected NZ to play Argentina in the QF, but then Argentina topped the group ahead of the hosts France, who then finished runner's up and played that Cardiff QF with a certain English ref. And then everyone expected Australia to beat England in the other QF, but forgot how bad the Wallaby front row would be and how they underestimated an England team still containing a lot of experienced players from the 2003 RWC. So history tells us that RWC never runs according to plan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 735375, member: 70552"] Increasingly I'm beginning to think SA will be up against winning this RWC. Too many injuries to key experienced leaders like Vermeulen, Alberts, De Villiers, Du Preez, Matfield who will have not have a lot of time to get back and play enough rugby before RWC begins; that and their Super rugby teams were very poor this year. Players like De Jager, Cotzee, Pollard, De Allande, Kriel are still pretty inexperienced. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] On paper yes, but there are always a few twists and turns at RWC and it never pans out that way. Pool A is just too close to call, runner's up spot in Pool B is between Samoa and Scotland, pool D, well my money is still on Ireland to top it and France to finish runner's up, but still France do have the players to win pool D and then it changes the dynamics of the QFs. I will never forget 2007 when everyone expected NZ to play Argentina in the QF, but then Argentina topped the group ahead of the hosts France, who then finished runner's up and played that Cardiff QF with a certain English ref. And then everyone expected Australia to beat England in the other QF, but forgot how bad the Wallaby front row would be and how they underestimated an England team still containing a lot of experienced players from the 2003 RWC. So history tells us that RWC never runs according to plan. [/QUOTE]
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