What the World Cup playoffs would look like on CURRENT World Rankings
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Earlier today World Rugby confirmed the fixtures for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
With the World Cup Final two years away we have a look at who would make the knock out stages based on their World Rankings.
Using the World Rankings Ireland would top group A followed by Scotland and Japan while the two to be confirmed qualifiers would battle it out for 4th place in the Pool.
In Pool B the All Blacks would top the group, with South Africa in 2nd place followed by Itlay and the to be confirmed qualifier from Africa and the Repechage winner.
Pool C gets more interesting with England topping the group and progress with France while Argentina are knocked out along with USA and Tonga
And finally, Pool D would see Australia progressing as the top seed with Wales in second with Fiji in 3rd, Georgia and Americas 2 battling out for 4th spot.
The quarter-finals would look like this:
QF1: England v Wales
QF2: New Zealand v Scotland
QF3: Australia v France
QF4: Ireland v South Africa
