"Now we need our big boys. France are a big team, Ireland are a big team, South Africa are massive.
'The physical presence of the game now is big, for 80 minutes."
Those three teams along with his native New Zealand are the likely World Cup winners in Fitzpatrick's eyes.
"So, it will either be South Africa, France, New Zealand or Ireland.
"I think France will play South Africa, and I think they can beat South Africa because they are big enough to compete.
"We [New Zealand] will play Ireland and the All Blacks will beat Ireland. Purely because I think we have learnt enough, and as long as we have our big guys available, I don't think Ireland will want to play the All Blacks."
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"the goto Kiwi reaction"
Can you stop with the xenophobia?
Go to commentsYeah, they’re not firing on all cylinders. But they’re going in to each game for the win and pulling it off 11/13 times for this past year. After an 85% season last year.
Based on my calculations - No other team has had two seasons in a row of 85% or better in the last 6 years. Not even Ireland.
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