Australia will miss Michael Hooper this weekend for the their top of the group clash with Wales, as he has been banned for one week after shoulder barging Mike Brown last Saturday. He is likely to be replaced by Sean McMahon, who OATH lauded recently as a rising star. The Aussies also have injury concerns to Izzy Folau and Rob Horne, but have a wealth of talent out wide to replace them if needed (Toomua, Beale, Mitchell, etc).
Scotland is sweating on fitness of Finn Russell and John Hardie, who they will need available if they are to move the ball wide of the brutal contact area against Samoa and qualify for the latter stages. Alesana Tuilagi has been banned for five weeks for an illegal knee against Japan, so his RWC 2015 (and RWC career) is over.
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