Rugby tragic here
Should be an interesting match - 19th v 18th according to IRB rankings. The US is ranked 18th.
In my perverse mind I was actually hoping that the game was played at Invercargill (southern tip of the south Island - closest point in NZ to Antartica). Invercargill is very cold and the likelyhood of a frozen pitch is quite high, so the USA and Russia could swap their rugby boots for ice skates and reprise there Ice Hockey battles.