The winners of Scotland and Ireland's group (Pool D) will play a third-placed team from Pool B (Romania, Georgia, Italy, South Africa), Pool E (Samoa, USA, Japan, France) or Pool F (Zimbabwe, Tonga, Wales, England) in the last-16. The runners-up, meanwhile, will play the Pool E winners, with France the top seeds in that group.

Too many touring sides have wilted at the hostile Gabba as the heat, humidity and a notoriously hostile home crowd took their toll