August 23, 2023
And japan are the strongest in their group, however, the rugby world cup draw was done in a long time in advance and that means that those pools are extremely lopsided, meaning teams are ranked 1—5 in the world are at the opposite side of the draw to england are, so despite this disruption, you would expect england to get to the pool stage and reach a quarterfinal, by which time, they do not have any more disciplinary issues, they could well be going further and deep into that tournament. foot...