RWC 2019 Draw

Full draw

Pool A: Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Europe 1, play-off winner (Europe 2 v Oceania 3)

Pool B: New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Africa 1, repechage winner

Pool C: England, France, Argentina, Americas 1, Oceania 2

Pool Australia, Wales, Georgia, Oceania 1, Americas 2

On current form we have no chance anyway. It looks worse than it is. By being in the same pool as NZ, if we make the quarter finals we will not see NZ until the final. If the knock out stages work the same as in 2015 we would play probably Ireland in the quarter finals. Ireland amazingly have never progressed past the quarters in the RWC.

Would rather be in this pool than in Pool C where England always seem to pull the 9th ranked country. :woohoo:

The group of death.......where either France or Argentina will go home early

shrek wrote: On current form we have no chance anyway. It looks worse than it is. By being in the same pool as NZ, if we make the quarter finals we will not see NZ until the final. If the knock out stages work the same as in 2015 we would play probably Ireland in the quarter finals. Ireland amazingly have never progressed past the quarters in the RWC.

Would rather be in this pool than in Pool C where England always seem to pull the 9th ranked country. :woohoo:

Never thought it would come to this .... but IF we beat Italy we'll make the quarters :huh:

shrek wrote: On current form we have no chance anyway. It looks worse than it is. By being in the same pool as NZ, if we make the quarter finals we will not see NZ until the final. If the knock out stages work the same as in 2015 we would play probably Ireland in the quarter finals. Ireland amazingly have never progressed past the quarters in the RWC.

Would rather be in this pool than in Pool C where England always seem to pull the 9th ranked country. :woohoo:

dont worry too much about England as they are in the process of doing there usual thing and thats peaking 2 years before the World Cup. They might as well just hand it over to the ABs already

For the Boks,all circumstances considered,this is an excellent draw.

Been a long time since Boks priced up 14/1 to win WC

15/10 All blacks
4/1 England
7/1 aus

Others

Ireland 12/1
Wales 20
Scotland 25

Japan 75

Sorry France 18/1

Good punting

15/10 on the All Blacks is a gift, it is just that your money is tied up for 2,5 years.

Plus considering funeral 2 years no bets for me unless on tick

Repecharge? Will have to google.

This is actually the perfect draw IF we can beat Italy :dry:

2007 comes to mind when we thrashed the poms in the group stages and then beat them in the final. So if we finish second to NZ in the group we shouldnt see them until the final if we get that far.