It is a hit rate that trumps any opposing argument. Ten times the world's best teams have assembled for a World Cup final, and nine times the William Webb Ellis trophy has headed off in southern hemisphere hands. New Zealand in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Australia in 1991 and 1999. South Africa in 1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023. The Tri-Nations triopoly has been broken only once - 2003, Jonny Wilkinson's glorious dropper and all that. England's triumph came at Sydney's Stadium Australia, the venue that