The Rugby World Cup has started with a big bang, with a number of major nations — including the Wallabies — picking up important early wins as the showpiece tournament got underway in France.
abc.net.au/news/rugby-world-cup-2023-what-we-learned-opening-weekend-of-matches/102839522The Rugby World Cup is well and truly underway in France, with top favourites laying down their claims early — while others will need to go back to the drawing board before the next round of fixtures.France are the real deal to take charge of Pool A
The win was not enough for France to end the first round of matches on top of Pool A — Italy's predictable, if not hard-earned, 52-8 bonus-point thrashing of Namibia saw the Azzurri take that honour — but it certainly puts them in pole position to progress as pool winners.There had been a lot of talk about England coming into this tournament — and none of it was good.
So a first-up match against Argentina looked not like the exciting pool decider that it could have been, but a massacre waiting to happen. "They were better than us in every way," Marcos Kermer told World Rugby in the mixed zone after the match.Ford, who scored all of England's points, said there was still work to do.