Ireland face the toughest challenge to stay at top

JEREMY GUSCOTT
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK

We are year out from the start of the 2023 World Cup in France, and we know that if the rankings had been done nearer to the tournament you would not have one half of the draw featuring the top four sides in the world.
However, the requirements of recces for team preparations well before the tournament takes place have taken precedent, and it has resulted not only in Ireland and France, the teams rated one and two in the world, being in one half of the quarter-final draw, but being joined there by the reigning world champions South Af...

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