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“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!

Gatland said he welcomed being written off, claiming Wales – who play two of their pool games on home soil in Cardiff – are content the pressure of expectation is relieved due to the loss of a combined 78 caps of experience.

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Wales manager Chris Coleman has insisted that qualification for Euro 2016 is close to being finalised.

“Yes, we can win the World Cup, we firmly believe we can with this squad of players”.

Ahead of the Wales versus Israel European Championship qualifier on Sunday, a photographic exhibition called “Low football – Jewish-Arab football: diversity and coexistence through lower-league football” was to be displayed at Cardiff’s Central Library.

Wales stay in 9th position with 1146 points, after breaking into the top 10 for the first time in the July rankings and overtaking their continent counterparts England for the first time.

The rumoured interest from Paris Satin-Germain never materialised, but Everton might yet have to fend off the attentions of one of Europe’s superpowers if Seamus Coleman is to remain a Toffee.

Burgess’s selection is likely to prove highly controversial, especially as Burrell was ever-present in the last two Six Nations.

England, who won the World Cup under Woodward in 2003, play Ireland in their final warm-up game at Twickenham on September 5.

The games begin with England v Fiji on Friday, September 18, and continue until Sunday, October 11, when the various winners and runners-up so far then start battling each other as we move towards the October 31 cup final.

Dazzling Earls, making his first appearance for Ireland in 29 months, boosted his chances of being included in Schmidt’s 31-man final World Cup squad with a classy display in Cardiff.