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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madflyhalf" data-source="post: 448815" data-attributes="member: 41162">Russia's first was good.The other 2 came from 2 individual errors: Pratichetti tried to intercept russian last pass, and he opened a space for russian wing who literally burned McLean. Russian final try Toniolatti was still on the ground brawling with a russian player.RWC rules for advancing after pool stages:If at the completion of the pool phase two or more teams are level on match points, then the following criteria shall be used in the following order until one of the Teams can be determined as the higher ranked:The winner of the match in which the two tied teams have played each other shall be the higher ranked;The team which has the best difference between points scored for and points scored against in all its pool matches shall be the higher ranked;The team which has the best difference between tries scored for and tries scored against in all its pool matches shall be the higher ranked;The team which has scored most points in all its pool matches shall be the higher ranked;The team which has scored most tries in all its pool matches shall be the higher ranked;Should the tie be unresolved at the conclusion of steps 1 through 5, the team that is higher ranked in the updated Official IRB World Rankings on October 3, 2011.Italy must arrive at october 2nd with 10 points, so Ireland should be at 13: in this case, if we beat Ireland, even if they take the bp, we will advance anyway.But if we fail to take 1bp against USA, we would be at 9, and we must win, without Ireland taking any bp (<7pt or 4 tries).... I can't see Italy beat Ireland by more than 7 points</blockquote>

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