World Cup:The International Rugby Board (IRB) has released the pool-stage "base camp" locations for the participating teams in the World Cup in France. For the first time in the tournament's history each of the 20 teams will be located in a regional base camp, either a town or city.
The squads will stay and train in those locations and will play at least one match in their base-camp region.
Teams will travel to other match cities from the base, stay in the match city for some time then return to the base.
Ireland's base is Bordeaux, where they play their opening two matches before moving to Paris to face France and Argentina.
There will be standardised training facilities for all teams comprising one full-size pitch and access to a reserve pitch, an indoor training area, a swimming pool and a gymnasium.
For the knockout stages (quarter-finals, semi-finals, bronze final and final) hotels have been identified in Cardiff, Marseille and Paris.
The eight quarter-final teams will arrive in their match cities on Tuesday, October 2nd.
WORLD CUP 2007 TEAM BASE CAMPS
Argentina: Paris (first week) then Lyon
Australia: Montpellier
Canada: Bordeaux
England: Versailles
Fiji: Moissac
France: Marcoussis
Georgia: Near Villefranche-sur-Saône
IRELAND:Bordeaux
Italy: Marseille and Saint Rémy de Provence
Japan: Near Toulouse
New Zealand: Marseille and Aix-en-Provence
Namibia: Near Marseille
Romania: To be confirmed
Samoa: Near Paris
Scotland: St Etienne
South Africa: Seine-Saint-Denis/Paris
USA: (Near Lille for first match then) Lyon
Wales: Pornichet/Saint-Nazaire
Repechage 1: To be confirmed
Repechage 2: To be confirmed
