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FINAL SCORE: FRANCE 16 CANADA 18 It was Canada who made the big start to the second half. Alarie who was very impressive at fullback switched, to scrumhalf due to the injury to Brenier, this brought her closer to the action and paid dividends as she spotted a gap and went through it to go over...

HALF TIME: FRANCE 6 CANADA 6 Right from the anthems I felt this one was going to be special with the sell out crowd creating a fantastic atmosphere. Both teams looked really fired up. Canada looked a little nervous in the opening couple of minutes. An overthrow in the lineout was quickly...

FINAL SCORE ENGLAND 40 IRELAND 7 England picked up where they left off at the start of the 2nd half. Pressure in the Irish 22 resulting in another 3 point from Scarratt's boot 21-7 England and some real daylight between the teams. Ireland made a couple of early changes in the second half to...

HALF TIME England 18 Ireland 7 England opened very physically and had Ireland on the back foot for the first five minutes. Ireland defended well as England looked to exploit space out wide. Ireland managed to repel them and that sparked an period of Irish dominance that ended with the...

As far as I can tell only the semi finals are being televised here in Ireland and the UK. Going to have to check behind the red button from about 1pm to see if I can see any of the other playoffs.

Getting excited now that it's semi finals day. Anyone want to try to predict the finalists? In the first semi final my head says England will just have that little bit too much for Ireland, but my heart says Ireland to keep the dream alive. So screw-it I'm going with my heart. Ireland to...

Not sure of the history of the women's haka and I'd love to hear about it from anyone that knows. Although it doesn't have the intensity of those performed by the men it has a rhythm and fluidity that makes it stand out as unique in my eyes.

The Wallaroos were definitely more competitive in the first half. The penalty try was a big swing in the game. As I said in my summary I didn't think it was warranted as it's a big stretch in that scenario to say a try would definitely have been scored. I think it did warrant a 2nd yellow card...

They were probably waiting for everyone (especially the fans) to sober up before having a media event. Makes sense to me.

Pool stages are done and dusted and the quality has been light years ahead of 4 years ago. The semi final line up shows that the number of competitive nations in the women's game has ballooned. We must be getting close to the tournament expending beyond the current 12 nations when you think...

So the line-up for the knock-out stages is now complete: Semi Final France v Canada Ireland v England 5th-8th place New Zealand v Wales Australia v USA 9th-12th place Spain v Kazakhstan South Africa v Samoa

Final Score France 17 Australia 3 Early in the second half France almost caught Australia ball watching with a well placed cross field kick. Only the superb work of full back Hewson prevented a try. Parry was lucky to escape a second yellow card and therefore red when she took the jumper out...

Half Time France 10 Australia 3 Australia started very brightly keeping the ball alive and denying the French any possession for the first 3 minutes. For all that it was France who opened the scoring. The Wallaroos conceded 2 penalties in quick succession. The first allowed France to get out...

No matter who fills the last semi final spot there will be at least 1 first time finalist with only England having made the final of those left in contention. If England lose their semi-final we're guaranteed to have a first time winner.

Didn't see Wales v South Africa due to clashing kick-off times. Final score was 35-3 to Wales. That means Wales claim 8th seeds pushing Spain down to 9th. South Africa will be 10th seeds. The 9th-12th seed lineup is the only one that's now confirmed. 9th seeds - Spain v 12th seeds Kazakhstan...

Final Score New Zealand 34 USA 3 5 minutes of sustained pressure from the USA at the start of the second half saw New Zealand given a deserved yellow card for repeated infringements. Back-rower Linda Itunu the one who received the yellow. With an extra player the USA still looked clueless...

Half Time New Zealand 12 USA 0 At the start of the day these two teams believed they would have a shot at 4th seeds and a semi-final spot. By the time they'd kicked off though that had changed to them scrapping over seeding for the 5th to 8th play-offs. Any fears that this one would be a...

Yeah Canada looked to tire in the second half with handling errors creeping into their game. I think that lack of accuracy was the reason they decided to take the points with 7 minutes to go and ultimately settle for the draw.

The draw in the England v Canada game also shakes up the semi final draw. The winners of France v Australia will now be the number 1 seeds in the semi-finals, unless we get another draw in that one. The likely semi final draw will now be: Seed 1 - France or Australia v Seed 4 - Canada Seed 2...

Didn't see the Spain v Samoa game but Spain ran out 41-5 winners. Who knows how good their team would be if they hadn't been replaced in the 6 nations by Italy in order to align it with the men's tournament. Hopefully they'll get back in as they're more competitive than both Scotland and Italy...