Greg Growden, of the Sydney Morning Herald, looks at the situation at the Waratahs, the Reds win and rugby fashion in his weekly take on rugby.
"Perfect timing. The rising Wallabies have it, Kiwis have the jitters because their All Blacks never do and the uncertain Springboks may just be three years beyond their peak.
"In a twinkling, the rugby universe has spun from a Reds-tinted craze of fist-pumping, delirious trophy lifting and victory parades into a countdown to the World Cup.
"Those rugby fans who always considered the showpiece tournament as a distant horizon will have it flooding their senses from now until Cup kick-off in 56 days.
"In the same fortnight that the Reds were celebrating a record Super Rugby crowd of 52,113, organisers saluted the sale of the 1,000,000th ticket to New Zealand's World Cup."
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