“Since being successfully selected as a team base over 12 months ago, the club’s off-field staff have worked extensively with Darlington Council, Rugby World Cup and the All Blacks“, said Mowden Park managing director Lee Rust.
Hansen has made just one change to the team that thumped Australia in Auckland last month, with Jerome Kaino replacing Victor Vito at blindside flanker.
Georgia scrumhalf Vasil Lobzhanidze will become the youngest player in Rugby World Cup history after being selected in the team to play Tonga on Saturday.
“It is hard to see your best mates injured badly”, said Roberts.”Watching that game last Saturday was frightful, to fall at the final hurdle is the cruellest thing imaginable”.
A clean sweep against the remaining sides in their pool, Tonga, Georgia and Namibia should be enough to get Argentina into the quarter-finals and a clash against the winners of Pool D, likely to be either France or Ireland.
Play Dream Team global Rugby Tipping and Fantasy worldwide Rugby and be in to win over $4,000 in cash prizes. Ironically, Fiji boasts some of the most naturally talented players in the game, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they were to upset the host nation in the opener.
Lacking serious punch in their backline is offset by their pack who are equal of most in the world, or better. That time, just to spite me, they fell over in the quarterfinals against a once-more rampaging France!
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Courtney Lawes insists England are braced to survive an early onslaught from Fiji out of the expectation that the Islanders will be vulnerable when Friday’s World Cup opener nears its conclusion.