2023 RWC Buildup, Squads, Fixtures 'etc'

This is close to American Football it's so stop start

Think Argentina were more entertaining but made stupid choices at critical times

Tomorrow might yet put a bit of polish on the turd.

Worst England team in 30 years finish with 3rd place at the world cup. Not a bad return.

Was a hard watch

The France V South Africa game was one of the best I've seen across any sport.

CrIkey the bitterness in many of these comments. From where England came from finishing third is a remarkable achievement regardless of the style of rugby. Good job England, onwards and upwards. We need a decent England team to make the six nations more entertaining and I believe they will build on this and get stronger and stronger

Almost guarantees they'll be shite in the 6N.

They have one of the biiggest, if not biggest , pools of players to pick from , yet play dreadful rugby , and were lucky to get over the line against both Samoa and Fiji, countrys the size of Bradford and Leeds - hardly a great achievement to me.

Is this final a step too far for the Saffas? Ireland/France must have taken them to the well. A bulked up England, with a shot to nothing semi-final , may have drained the well.

If the Boks win this game ,hats off! They have given wonderful thrills and spills to this tourney .

I just think that the last month or so (especially the last two weeks) have left them open to be overwhelmed by an A.B. team that will throw the ball around. S.A. may be a team whose physicality (justifiably) will start waning after half an hour(if not sooner).

N.Z.s name is on this cup I suspect , call it fate , and yet I still think France/S.A. and Ireland are better sides at the moment!

I wouldn't begrudge Fossie sailing off into the sunset with the trophy, especially after the personally brutal rollercoaster ride of the last few years!

I'm neither for N.Z. nor against S.A.! That said, if this was a cowboy film , I reckon Fossie is the beleaguered good guy facing down the baddie called Rassie.

The good guys always win ,don't they?

When people talk about NZ winning being good for the game I'm on the opposite side of the fence on that one. I'm up for SA for the good of the world cup. A NZ would be quite hollow considering their route to the final. They comfortably lost their first group match and then didn't have a difficult game until the quarters and then had a cake walk in the semi's. There's not a lot of positive things you can say about SA but they've been immense this tournament. Even in their group stage lose it was a real battle and they were in it until the end.

People give out about the length of the tournament but I do wish teams had two weeks until the semi's. Easy and loopsided draws are frustrating enough sonthat would at least go some way to mitigating it.