World Cup Matches, Line-Ups, Results and Statistics

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NZ beat England 20-18 in one of the best games I've seen. If you didn't catch that Whare pass for Tuivasa-Sheck's 1st try then you need to! Ridiculous!

Bromwich was superb.
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Australia simply outclassed Fiji 64-0.

Farewell Petero Civoniceva, good luck in retirement.
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Mattpoet I agree the NZ v England semi was one of the best tests I have seen. Whare's pass to RTS was unbelievable. What a finish to the game too. I thought Gaz played well for England too. Sam Burgess and Graham were both very good.
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New Zealand 19-man squad: Simon Mannering (capt), Jesse Bromwich, Greg Eastwood, Kieran Foran, Alex Glenn, Bryson Goodwin, Shaun Johnson, Sam Kasiano, Kevin Locke, Issac Luke, Ben Matulino, Jason Nightingale, Frank-Paul Nu'uausala, Elijah Taylor, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Manu Vatuvei, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Dean Whare, Sonny Bill Williams.
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Australian 19-man squad: Cameron Smith (capt), Greg Bird, Darius Boyd, Daly Cherry-Evans, Cooper Cronk, Andrew Fifita, Jarryd Hayne, Paul Gallen, Greg Inglis, Brett Morris, Nate Myles, Josh Papalii, Corey Parker, Matthew Scott, Billy Slater, James Tamou, Brent Tate, Sam Thaiday, Johnathan Thurston.
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Australia win 34-2. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

Slater bagged 2 and Cronk got 1 and had one controversially denied.

Australia went through the last 5 games and over 400 minutes in total without conceding a try.
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Great team performance with almost every player contributing something special. Our Storm boys in particular were outstanding.
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Awesome team effort. I was so happy to see Billy and Cooper score our first three tries.

I was a little surprised JT got man of the match. I thought Thaiday, Parker, Hayne and Slater were all better than JT. There must be something written in the stars that the Kangaroos number 6 almost instantly gets MOTM. Lockyer used to get it quite a lot, sometimes when he didn't deserve it.
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