Day two and in the Women’s competition England won a cracking final against Australia 15-10, with 2 minutes to play the game was tied up as Australia scored their second try, but with 9 seconds on the clock England broke out and went almost the length of the field to score the winner, it did not matter that the kick bounced off the posts. Earlier England reached the final by beating favourites Canada, no mean feat and they faced Australia the World Champions in a tough match. lets hope this augers well for the men’s team tomorrow.
We now have the line-ups for the quarter finals and again we had the majority of results called correctly. We did get caught out by Zimbabwe doing for Canada and an even bigger surprise Hong Kong beating Tonga. In the main competition Scotland had an important win against our prediction doing for France, though they had to come from 12-0 to do it. Argentina out muscled Kenya which put Argentina into the Cup quarters. So not bad we called 21 games correctly getting just 4 wrong.
Final day tomorrow and some big match-ups. Check out our predictions again in bold.
Results Day Two Sat 24/3/2012
13 09:30 RUSSIA 14-12 GUYANA Pool F
14 09:52 SPAIN 21-5 PHILIPPINES Pool E
15 10:14 URUGUAY 26-29 CHINA Pool D
16 10:36 AUSTRALIA 29-14 SCOTLAND Pool C
17 10:58 SOUTH AFRICA 15-7 UNITED STATES Pool B
18 11:20 ENGLAND 21-17 KENYA Pool A
19 12:26 PORTUGAL 26-22 JAPAN Pool F
20 12:48 CANADA 21-24 ZIMBABWE Pool E
21 13:10 TONGA 7-26 HONG KONG Pool D
22 13:32 FIJI 26-12 FRANCE Pool C
23 13:54 NEW ZEALAND 24-7 WALES Pool B
24 14:16 SAMOA 27-0 ARGENTINA Pool A
25 14:38 JAPAN 38-5 GUYANA Pool F
26 15:00 ZIMBABWE 21-17 PHILIPPINES Pool E
27 15:22 HONG KONG 29-5 CHINA Pool D
28 15:44 FRANCE 12-14 SCOTLAND Pool C
29 16:06 WALES 42-7 UNITED STATES Pool B
30 16:28 ARGENTINA 19-7 KENYA Pool A
31 17:40 PORTUGAL 17-10 RUSSIA Pool F
32 18:02 CANADA 10-7 SPAIN Pool E
33 18:24 TONGA 33-12 URUGUAY Pool D
34 18:46 FIJI 22-5 AUSTRALIA Pool C
35 19:08 NEW ZEALAND 19-10 SOUTH AFRICA Pool B
36 19:30 SAMOA 14-12 ENGLAND Pool A
Fixtures Rankings and Quarter Finals
Local Time ( Live UK SkySports 2 06:30 to 13:00)
37 09:00 CHINA v GUYANA Ranking SF
38 09:22 URUGUAY v PHILIPPINES Ranking SF
39 09:44 HONG KONG v JAPAN Qualifier ¼ Final
40 10:06 SPAIN v TONGA Qualifier ¼ Final
41 10:28 CANADA v RUSSIA Qualifier ¼ Final
42 10:50 PORTUGAL v ZIMBABWE Qualifier ¼ Final
43 11:12 FIJI v ARGENTINA ¼ Final Cup
44 11:34 AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND ¼ Final Cup
45 11:56 SAMOA v SOUTH AFRICA ¼ Final Cup
46 12:18 NEW ZEALAND v WALES ¼ Final Cup