Ireland are gearing up for Saturday's Pool A match with Samoa knowing a bonus-point victory in Fukuoka will be enough to secure them a spot in the World Cup quarter-finals.
Australia guaranteed their place in the last eight with a 27-8 win over Georgia on Friday, but most of the attention remains off the pitch.
The impending impact of Typhoon Hagibis continues to dominate headlines in Japan, with Scotland's crunch final Pool A match against hosts Japan on Sunday still in doubt.
Here, the PA news agency takes a look ahead to Saturday's only remaining fixture and wraps up Friday's action.
Ireland focus on job at hand, not the pitch
Ireland wing Keith Earls has called on his team-mates to "get on the with job" ahead of Saturday's decisive Pool A World Cup clash with Samoa.
The state of the pitch at Hakatanomori Stadium has been heavily debated in the build-up to the fixture. Large sections of the pitch have been twice relayed, most recently after France beat the USA on October 2
But with Ireland needing a bonus-point win to book a quarter-final berth, Earls said: "It's flat and quite firm.
"It doesn't feel too bad to run on. It's been inspected and deemed playable and that's the way it felt out there today.
"It's going to be the same for both teams, and we'll just have to get on with the job."
