World Rugby rankings

2022 - 7 - 16

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Ireland move to NUMBER 1 in World Rugby Rankings after Andy ... (The Irish Sun)

IRELAND have jumped to number 1 in the Official World Rugby Rankings after today's Test Series win in New Zealand.Andy Farrell's side capped off their.

IRELAND have jumped to number 1 in the Official World Rugby Rankings after today's Test Series win in New Zealand. Ireland will move top of the rankings after sealing two win from the 3 test series. Ireland move to NUMBER 1 in World Rugby Rankings after Andy Farrell’s men seal test series victory in Wellington

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Top of the world: Ireland secure number one ranking with victory in ... (The42)

Ireland have only been the world's top-ranked side once in the past — for two weeks in September 2019, ahead of that year's Rugby World Cup in Japan. Saturday's ...

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Ireland set for massive World Rugby rankings boost after All Blacks ... (SportsJOE.ie)

For the past three decades, the World Rugby rankings tallied the best sides on the planet. The latest Ireland rankings boost will be confirmed on Monday.

England had a series win, too, having defeated Australia 21-17 in Sydney but that only consolidated their position of fifth in the standings. That says a lot about how they are as a team and where they’re going and the belief that they’ve got. Les Bleus drop to second after that second Ireland win over New Zealand in eight days. We lost game one and our backs were against the wall. The latest Ireland rankings boost will be confirmed on Monday. This is the first time since August 2019, when Ireland beat Wales in Cardiff in a World Cup warm-up, that the men in green have topped the rankings.

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Rugby World Cup 2023 power rankings: Why France remain ... (iNews)

Results and talking points from the final weekend of summer Tests as England and Ireland claim series victories in very different circumstances.

Head coach Galthie said of the Japan tour: “The objective with this team was to win the matches we had on the programme and that we did. And this should be of concern for Rugby Australia. Its chairman Hamish McLennan has described the next 10 years as a “golden decade” for the sport. If we take young players on tour with an eye on development, we had to succeed in bringing them to this level of performance and that is why the objective was achieved.” The bookies cut Ireland’s World Cup odds on the back of the Wellington win. That’s because England were so woeful in the Six Nations earlier this year that it led to questions about Eddie Jones’ future. And were it not for Wallabies handling errors the hosts could have been out of sight by half time. “We do have Joe Schmidt in the wings, he’ll be coming back into the team now when they go to South Africa, so we’ll just wait and see. “Have they got the right players? Have they the right head coach? Have they the right coaches? France, however, remain the frontrunners to win their first World Cup on home soil next year. It was a gripping third test and one that New Zealand would have expected to edge.

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