• The Rugby World Cup is the world's third largest sporting event after the Olympics and the Football World Cup.
• The 2007 tournament will feature 600 players involved in 48 matches watched by 2.4 million spectators and four billion television viewers.
• Six thousand volunteers have been recruited to work in the host cities. They gathered for their first training session in Disneyland Paris. The oldest volunteer is 79 years old.
• A total of 250 television channels and 2,500 members of the media will be covering the event.
• Australia hold the record for the biggest winning margin in a RWC game - in 2003 they beat Nambia 142 - 0, scoring 22 tries.
• Wales's highest placing in the RWC came in the inaugural 1987 tournament. They beat Australia 22-21 to claim third place.
• When England beat Australia in the 2003 final they became the only Northern Hemisphere nation to have won the RWC.
• In 1995 Canada became the first team not to score any points in a RWC.
• The Georgian national side is nicknamed the 'Lelos'. Lelo was a traditional Georgian game similar to rugby.
• Jonah Lomu has been the top try scorer at two RWCs - he scored 7 tries in 1995 and eight tries in 1999.
• Australia are the only side to appear in three finals. England, New Zealand and France have all appeared twice.
• When Japan lost 145 - 17 to the All Blacks in 1995 they gained the dubious record of most points conceded in a RWC. Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Miro is the president of the Japanese rugby union.
• Ireland have reached the RWC quarter finals four times.
• On the William Webb Ellis Trophy, one handle is decorated with a satyr, the other is decorated with a nymph.
• When Wales shocked the rugby world in the 1991 RWC by losing to 16-13 to Western Samoa the quip was made Thank heavens they weren't playing the whole of Samoa!
• New Zealand's Sean Fitzpatrick has made more RWC appearances than any other player - 17 in three tournaments.
• France are the highest ranked side never to have won the RWC.

• Arthur Emyr
• Beti George
• Gary Slaymaker
• Derwyn Jones
• Eleri Siôn
• Gareth Roberts
• Gwyn Jones
• Ieuan Evans
• Jonathan Davies
• Sarra Elgan

• Derwyn Jones 15/09/2007
• Gwyn Jones 20/09/2007
• Gwyn Jones 26/09/2007
• Gwyn Jones 03/10/2007
• Gwyn Jones 11/10/2007
• Gwyn Jones 18/10/2007

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