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Tournament Schedule

POOL A

POOL A

Fri 10 Oct	Sydney	Australia 24 Argentina 8
Sat 11 Oct	Gosford	Ireland 45 Romania 17
Tues 14 Oct	Gosford	Argentina 67 Namibia 14
Sat 18 Oct	Brisbane	Australia 90 Romania 8
Sun 19 Oct	Sydney	Ireland 64 Namibia 7
Wed 22 Oct	Sydney	Argentina 50 Romania 3
Sat 25 Oct	Adelaide	Australia 142 Namibia 0
Sun 26 Oct	Adelaide	Argentina 15 Ireland 16
Today	Launceston (0900)	Romania v Namibia
Sat 1 Nov	Melbourne (0930)	Australia v Ireland

POOL B

Sat 11 Oct	Brisbane	France 61 Fiji 18
Sun 12 Oct	Townsville	Scotland 32 Japan 11
Wed 15 Oct	Brisbane	Fiji 19 United States 18
Sat 18 Oct	Townsville	France 51 Japan 29
Mon 20 Oct	Brisbane	Scotland 39 United States 15
Thu 23 Oct	Townsville	Fiji 41 Japan 13
Sat 25 Oct	Sydney	France 51 Scotland 9
Mon 27 Oct	Gosford (0830)	Japan 26 United States 39
Tomorrow	Wollongong (0830)	France v United States
Sat 1 Nov	Sydney (0500)	Scotland v Fiji

POOL C

Sat 11 Oct	Perth	South Africa 72 Uruguay 6
Sun 12 Oct	Perth	England 84 Georgia 6
Wed 15 Oct	Perth	Samoa 60 Uruguay 13
Sat 18 Oct	Perth	South Africa 6 England 25
Sun 19 Oct	Perth	Georgia 9 Samoa 46
Fri 24 Oct	Sydney	South Africa 46 Georgia 19
Sun 26 Oct	Melbourne	England 35 Samoa 22
Tues 28 Oct	Sydney	Georgia 12 Uruguay 24
Sat 1 Nov	Brisbane (0730)	South Africa v Samoa
Sun 2 Nov	Brisbane (0730)	England v Uruguay

POOL D

Sat 11 Oct	Melbourne	New Zealand 70 Italy 7
Sun 12 Oct	Melbourne	Wales 41 Canada 10
Wed 15 Oct	Canberra	Italy 36 Tonga 12
Fri 17 Oct	Melbourne	New Zealand 68 Canada 6
Sun 19 Oct	Canberra	Wales 27 Tonga 20
Tue 21 Oct	Canberra	Italy 19 Canada 14
Fri 24 Oct	Brisbane	New Zealand 91 Tonga 7
Sat 25 Oct	Canberra	Italy 15 Wales 27
Yesterday	Wollongong (0830)	Canada 24 Tonga 7
Sun 2 Nov	Sydney (0930)	New Zealand v Wales

Quarter-finals

Sat 8 Nov	Melbourne (0730)	Winner D v Runner-up C
Sat 8 Nov	Brisbane (1000)	Winner A v Runner-up B
Sun 9 Nov	Melbourne (0730)	Winner B v Runner-up A
Sun 9 Nov	Brisbane (1000)	Winner C v Runner-up D

Semi-finals

Sat 15 Nov	Sydney (0900)	Winner QF1 v Winner QF2
Sun 16 Nov	Sydney (0900)	Winner QF3 v Winner QF4

Third/fourth play-off
Thu 20 Nov Sydney (0900)

Final
Sat 22 Nov Sydney (0900)

All times are GMT

STANDINGS

POOL A

	P	W	D	L	F	A	BP	Pts
Australia (Q)	3	3	0	0	256	16	2	14
Ireland (Q)	3	3	0	0	125	39	2	14
Argentina	4	2	0	2	140	57	3	11
Romania	3	0	0	3	28	185	0	0
Namibia	3	0	0	3	21	273	0	0

POOL B

	P	W	D	L	F	A	BP	Pts
France (Q)	3	3	0	0	163	56	3	15
Scotland	3	2	0	1	80	77	2	10
Fiji	3	2	0	1	78	92	1	9
US	3	1	0	2	72	84	2	6
Japan	4	0	0	4	79	163	0	0

POOL C

	P	W	D	L	F	A	BP	Pts
England (Q)	3	3	0	0	144	34	2	14
South Africa	3	2	0	1	124	50	2	10
Samoa	3	2	0	1	128	57	2	10
Uruguay	3	1	0	2	43	144	0	4
Georgia	4	0	0	4	46	200	0	0

POOL D

	P	W	D	L	F	A	BP	Pts
N Zealand (Q)	3	3	0	0	229	20	3	15
Wales (Q)	3	3	0	0	95	45	1	13
Italy	4	2	0	2	77	123	0	8
Canada	4	1	0	3	54	135	1	5
Tonga	4	0	0	4	46	178	1	1

TODAY'S MATCH

POOL A, LAUNCESTON, 9.00AM (GMT) ROMANIA V NAMIBIA

ROMANIA: D Dumbrava; I Teodorescu, V Maftei, R Gontineac (capt), G Brezoianu; I Tofan, L Sirbu; P Balan, R Mavrodin, M Socaciu, A Petrichei, C Petre, G Chiriac, O Tonita, S Socol.

Replacements: 16 C Popescu, 17 P Toderasc, 18 S Florea, 19 M Tudori, 20 I Andrei, 21 C Sauan, 22 M Vioreanu.

NAMIBIA: R Pedro; D Mouton, D Grobler, E Wessels, V Dreyer; M Schreuder, N Swanepoel; K Lensing, J Meyer, N du Toit, H Senekal, E Isaacs, S van der Merwe, W Duvenhage, S Furter (capt).

Replacements: 16 C van Tonder, 17 A Blaauw, 18 H Lintvelt, 19 J van Lill, 20 R van Vuuren, 21 D Grunschloss, 22 C Powell.

Referee: Peter Marshall (Australia).

TV: ITV2 8.40.

ITV1 Highlights 11.00-12.05am.

Last meeting: No previous meeting.

LEADING TRY SCORERS
6 M Muliaina (NZ).
5 C Latham (Aus), M Rogers (Aus).
4 P Bouza (Arg), M Gaitan (Arg), D Howlett (NZ), C Ralph (NZ), L Tuqiri (Aus), M Giteau (Aus).