4 kickers... I'm assuming they're all specialists, so 2 field kickers and 2 punters. Maybe by cutting two and drafting in one who is more balanced as a backup. Also depending on how far along they are in their build, perhaps the specialists would provide enough backup to their non-specialised area in case of injury - so you could just cut two and have the remaining two backup for each other.

As for what you'd do with those two extra spots, maybe a third QB (you never know eh, and he's such a vital part) and maybe an extra WR perhaps? Not sure about the tactical brilliance of a 4 WR set with no TE, but it seems silly to deny ourselves that option if there's an injury to one WR.

Slightly unrelated, and despite offense being king in this game, has anyone had any real experience with using a base 3-4 set instead of a 4-3? I figured since rushing seems to be fairly infrequent at the higher tiers, you may as well have fewer defensive linemen. This may have flow on effects on how many times you get to pressure a QB of course, but I'm sure I've seen LBs pressure and sack before so I'm unsure as to how that'll change if at all. I've been predominantly running it, but it's hard to comment on effectiveness. It seems to hold up against the rush ok (my main League competitor put up 176 yards on 34 attempts where 74 yards came from one play against a 3-4 made up of players who had a BPOS of non-defence positions and very low team chemistry) and the pass sort of ok also (up until the last quarter against a far superior DIV III Balkans team again with the same ragtag of players with low chem). And yes, I'm a low Div with a lack of competition week in week out (bots errrywhere) so variables are quite different for me.

Is a 3-4 base a viable option in the NT competition? (Wait, Poland used it in the WC final against USA though all pressure and the sole sack that I could see came from the right DE) Is it something to consider for us?

Our group is UK NZ France.

UK is massive opponent. If we can get past France. Then we are good for the rest of the WC4.

Australia and New Zealand win!

Congratulations!!

2-0 with scoreline of 38-21 in both games .... Australia first, NZ second, UK third, France fourth.

As a coach I am still trying a couple of things each game that should not affect chances of winning but may not necessarily greatly enhance the scoreline.

very windy day v NZ ... we did well when running with the strong breeze in the 2nd and 4th, whilst holding up NZ in the 1st and 3rd when they had the breeze. Good spread of contributors, with a few errors but not really detrimental to the result.

Bring on UK in our biggest test this campaign. We did well against them last campaign without actually winning.