It’s goodbye weekend at the Rugby World Cup, the part of the gameshow when the sad couple go home with fifty quid and a toaster while Steve and Janet from Birmingham stay on for a chance to win a speedboat.
Hopefully Ireland will be returning after the break to play for the big money. Even by the standards of Irish World Cup ignominy, it would be a spectacular flub to go out at this stage. Especially at the hands of Scotland, very much the Scrappy Doo of the international rugby scene.
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