Pendulum swings as final group games ramp up Rugby World Cup risks | Ben Ryan

With the knockout stages in sight, losing a key player to a red card could now completely derail a team’s tournament chancesTen red cards or subsequent bans in Japan has dwarfed anything that’s happened before in a Rugby World Cup. However, get a ban now that goes into the knockouts and a body blow could turn into a grievous one. How many of the top teams could go into a quarter-final fully confident without their best player banned? England without Billy or Faz? New Zealand without