Pumas benefit from Dragons’ defeat

Pumas benefit from Dragons’ defeat

1 Dec 2012

Argentina will be in the second band of teams for the 2015 World Cup draw, which takes place on Monday.

Wales were ranked seventh before this weekend’s matches, but their last-minute defeat to the Wallabies sees them drop to ninth, which means they will be in the third band of teams for the draw and will therefore have two other top teams in their World Cup pool.

The Pumas have risen from ninth to eighth.

Latest IRB rankings:

Band 1
1 New Zealand 90.08
2 South Africa 86.94
3 Australia 86.87
4 France 85.07

Band 2
5 England 83.90
6 Ireland 80.22
7 Samoa 78.71
8 Argentina 78.71

Band 3
9 Wales 78.39
10 Italy 76.24
11 Tonga 76.10
12 Scotland 75.83


4 Comments

  • 1.jet jungle: Reply to this comment
    1 Dec 2012, 22:14 pm

    puff the magic dragons

  • 2.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    1 Dec 2012, 22:27 pm

    well they beat them in Cardiff so fair enough

  • 3.Liewe Luiperd: Reply to this comment
    2 Dec 2012, 23:06 pm

    Some interesting connotations:

    SA
    England
    Wales
    AN Other

    or

    SA
    Samoa
    Italy or Tonga
    AN Other

    I know which group Id prefer….

    ps shocking that Scotland is ranked 12th…..

  • 4.hendrikp: Reply to this comment
    3 Dec 2012, 15:41 pm

    My ideal:

    1 New Zealand / England / Scotland
    2 South Africa / Argentina / Italy
    3 Australia / Samoa / Wales
    4 France / Ireland / Tonga

    Considered Wales in there with the All Blacks, but I’d hate to give the Samoans an easy run into the quarter-finals. They don’t deserve it the way they carry on, thinking the rugby world owes them something.

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