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To make an emphatic statement in their Wembley match against an Argentina side powered by a bruising pack, the All Blacks will field a team with an average age of 28 and featuring 1,013 caps in the starting XV and a further 316 caps on the bench.

His captain, Richie McCaw, playing in his 17th World Cup match, echoed those sentiments: “They’ve shown in the last couple of outings against the Springboks that they’ve got the ability”.

The All Blacks, as the New Zealand team is known for the color of its uniforms, are the clear favorites to hoist the cup, at 11-8, according to bookmakers.

The last decade has been momentous for Argentinean rugby and most of it has come on the back of excellent World Cup showings.

“We are the showcase of our rugby event and it’s very important that we keep our values there and referees have been asked to sanction very heavily on that”.

The most successful team of all time, current world champions, the first team in the professional era to go through an entire season unbeaten (in 2013), have history on their minds.

Similarly, Argentina coach Daniel Hourcade believes the squad’s preparation in the Algarve has served as the “perfect platform” to rattle the elite of world rugby.

Since 1970, when Bryan Williams became the first Pacific Islander All Black, New Zealand has also drafted in scores of players from nearby countries like Samoa, Tonga and Fiji.

They’re not unbeatable. The All Blacks lost just two tests ago to Australia in Sydney, then rebounded and avenged in style by drubbing the Australians in Auckland.

“The game is extremely hard to ref… they’re going to miss some things and we’ve just got to deal with that”.

Good news for Conor Murray who was voted as the sexiest Irish player at the Rugby World Cup, with Paul O’Connell coming second and Sean O’Brien third by the Irish respondents of the survey.

A new survey by EliteSingles had a look at how the Rugby World cup can affect the love-lives of Irish singles. You are going to lose a couple of games along the way and draw a couple as well.

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He said: “Dan’s got his challengers and it’s the same with England and Australia, where you’ve also got big competition at fly-half”. The All Blacks popularity has expanded beyond our own backyard and that has been confirmed following the recent release of a survey by google.

Hansen has made only one change from that team, bringing in Jerome Kaino for Victor Vito, but he knows Argentina present a muscular test. “They will be really unsafe “, he said.

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“We’re expected to win every Test match, so there’s no more added pressure for us if you look where we live most of the time on the pressure scale”.

Samoa has won all four previous contests, but never by more than seven points.

Fidgety would be the best word to describe Smith after a build up he admits has begun to test his ability to stay still around the team hotel in Richmond.