Coming into Saturday’s Six Nations conflict in Dublin, Eire had been favourites to clinch victory at residence, declare the event title and stay on monitor for one more Grand Slam, however France had different concepts.
The French weathered an early storm, after which romped to an emphatic 42-27 win that may reverberate round world rugby, and places them in line to nearly definitely declare the Six Nations trophy.
There was loads using on the sport on the Aviva Stadium, and if Eire might have achieved an enormous win in opposition to France, they may have even lower the Springboks’ lead on the summit of the world rankings to simply 0.90 factors.
As an alternative, it was France who got here away with bragging rights, though they’d have been upset to conceded two late tries that definitely flattered the ultimate scoreboard.
New Zealand are actually the closest facet to the Springboks within the rankings, however there’s a rating factors hole of two.42, whereas Eire have fallen to 3rd, with France proper behind them in fourth.
CURRENT WORLD RUGBY RANKINGS AFTER FRANCE BEAT IRELAND:
| RANK | COUNTRY | POINTS |
| 1 | South Africa | 92.78 |
| 2 | New Zealand | 90.36 |
| 3 | Eire | 89.71 |
| 4 | France | 89.51 |
| 5 | Argentina | 84.97 |
| 6 | England | 84.26 |
| 7 | Scotland | 82.36 |
| 8 | Australia | 81.52 |
| 9 | Fiji | 80.07 |
| 10 | Italy | 78.00 |
| 11 | Georgia | 74.69 |
| 12 | Wales | 73.75 |
| 13 | Japan | 72.95 |
| 14 | Samoa | 72.68 |
| 15 | USA | 70.02 |
| 16 | Portugal | 68.30 |
| 17 | Spain | 67.34 |
| 18 | Uruguay | 67.06 |
| 19 | Tonga | 65.46 |
| 20 | Romania | 62.76 |
SIX NATIONS 2025 FIXTURES
ROUND 4
Saturday, 8 March
Eire vs France
Scotland vs Wales
Sunday, 9 March
England vs Italy
ROUND 5
Saturday, 15 March
Italy vs Eire
Wales vs England
France vs Scotland
Permutation highlights:
- Scotland will fall beneath Australia if held to a draw at Murrayfield, a outcome which might see Wales climb again above Georgia into eleventh place.
- A defeat by greater than 15 factors will see Scotland additionally fall beneath Fiji with a 3=place drop to tenth attainable if the margin is by greater than 15 factors and Italy upset England at Allianz Stadium.
- With out this margin of defeat for Scotland, Italy can nonetheless enhance their place of tenth however it could require their first-ever win over England to be by greater than 15 factors. This state of affairs can be sufficient to carry the Azzurri above Fiji.
- England can solely achieve a most of 0,11 ranking factors for beating Italy so can not climb any larger than sixth place.
- Nonetheless, defeat will see England fall beneath a victorious Scotland facet into seventh, with Australia additionally set to climb above them if the margin is by greater than 15 factors.
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