| Top Rugby World Cup Story |
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| Bradley dangles World Cup carrot |
| Ireland's interim coach Michael Bradley has reminded his squad their summer tour could have an impact on their passage through the next World Cup. |
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| Rugby World Cup Features |
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World Cup dreams begin in Caribbean sun |
| Barely six months after South Africa clinched the sport's biggest prize at RWC'07 in France the Webb Ellis Cup was inspiring dreams once again as the qualification for the sport's next global showpiece got underway. |
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World Cup body exhumed but no knives out |
| "Results from the autopsy of New Zealand's rugby World Cup failure are in at last. The result? No heads will roll." NZPA's Daniel Gilhooly reports |
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Bok unity depends on keeping team together |
| "South Africa faces an anxious wait to see whether the Springbok team that won the World Cup will be kept together or ripped apart." Stephen Nell reports |
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| Join the debate in the Scrum Forum |
 "What's the worst that could happen under the ELVs? Faster game, more forward contests, fewer whimsical full arm penalties, higher scores, more scrums and running, fitter players, what more would you want? Don't know why Brian Moore and others are so worried unless of course their status quo/Luddite rhetoric has something to do with their journalistic remuneration packages and contractual obligations.." Join the debate in the Scrum Forum |
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