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[aoluain]

Well its all going to be done and dusted today, a very busy schedule in the mens tournament
ahead. Its indeed hard to see anyone beating Fiji but France are the dark horses IMO.
They have been targeting this since the start of the season, even bringing Antoine Dupont
into the team.

Semi finals:
South Africa v France - I'm going with France here.
Fiji v Australia - I'm going Fiji on this match - sorry Timelord.

Ireland play USA for the 5th spot position - bet on for an Irish win.

[Timelord2067]

In the five matches, I'm going with New Zealand over Argentina (in a very close game). Ireland (of course) over the USA. France over RSA (only just). Australia over Fiji (only just). Uruguay ($1.08 - shortest odds today) over Japan. Samoa over Kenya.

In the NRL - as I forecast the Bulldogs and Roosters won while the Sharks lost to the Cowboys (four from five this week so far)

[aoluain]

And France take Gold, Fiji take Silver and South Africa take Bronze. As I mentioned France
for me were the dark horses for Gold and they beat Fiji well, final score 28-7.

South Africa v Australia - great match in the semi finals but SA win with 1 try and conversion.
26-19.


Its the womens turn starting today and if the world series is anything to go by we
could be looking at an Australia v New Zealand but there is a lot to play first. Again
France Women will be looking to do what the Men did!

First round of matches today:
Ireland v Great Britain - tough one to call, will be very close.
Australia v South Africa - Australia all the way
USA v Japan - USA for the win
France v Brazil - France for the win
Fiji v Canada - Very close one here too
New Zealand v China - NZ for the win.


Watched a dair few matches today, definitely New Zealand, Australia and France
looked really strong.
Standings after todays matches

[aoluain]

A lot of matches played and we are finally at the FINAL Match stage between New Zealand and Canada.
Canada pulled off a bit of a surprise result against Australia beating them 21 - 12. New Zealand are
massive favourites at 1.05. Things can change in this game very quickly. Today Australia were leading at
half time 0 - 12 but things just went Canada's way in the second half and Australia while chasing the match
made too many errors, can this happen to the series champions NZ tomorrow?