Ireland v Australia was the main draw, but you can catch up with the news from all this weekend's other matches in our weekend preview below.
England v Georgia (Pool B, Sunday, 18 September, 7am)
England will hope attention is back on their rugby when they face Georgia in their World Cup clash at the Otago Stadium on Sunday.
Martin Johnson's men recorded a gruelling, come-from-behind, 13-9 victory over Argentina in their Pool B opener in Dunedin last Saturday and face another physical encounter against a Georgia side renowned for their forward strength.
But England's build-up to the match was overshadowed by the fall-out from their night out in a bar last Sunday where veteran centre Mike Tindall, who recently married Zara Phillips, the granddaughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, was seen flirting with an unidentified blonde.
Tindall, a member of the 2003 World Cup-winning side captained by Johnson, found himself making unwanted headlines on both sides of the equator, and the whole incident was given a fresh twist Friday when a video purporting to show the midfielder in the bar was posted on YouTube.
The Gloucester midfielder, England's captain last week, was left out of the side in one of nine changes made to the team that beat Argentina although Johnson stressed Tindall's omission had nothing to do with the night out.
England captain Lewis Moody, who missed the Argentina match with knee ligament damage, returned to the back-row that will feature World Cup debutant Tom Wood.
"It's good to have Lewis back," Johnson said.
"It's a chance for a lot of guys to come and play."
Johnson, himself a former lock, selected a new second row combination of Simon Shaw and Tom Palmer, the pair replacing Courtney Lawes, suspended for two matches for kneeing Argentina's Mario Ledesma, and Louis Deacon.
"Courtney is out for a couple of weeks, but we'd have played the other two locks anyway," explained Johnson.
Meanwhile in the front row, Matt Stevens, a replacement against Argentina for Andrew Sheridan, whose World Cup has since been ended by a shoulder injury, started at loosehead prop with Dylan Hartley replacing 2003 World Cup-winner Steve Thompson at hooker.
In the backs, former New Zealand rugby league international Shontayne Hape came in for Tindall, England's captain against Argentina.
Toby Flood replaced Jonny Wilkinson, who missed five of his eight goalkicks last week at fly-half. Flood's Leicester team-mate Ben Youngs, who came off the bench to score the only try of the Pumas match, was alongside him at scrum-half.
Georgia almost upset Scotland
Georgia made just two changes to the side that lost 15-6 to coach Richie Dixon's native Scotland on Wednesday. Ilia Zedginidze replaced lock Levan Datunashvili and David Kubriashvili went from the bench to tighthead prop in place of David Zirakashvili.
Four of Georgia's starters played in their only previous match against England, an 84-6 thrashing at the 2003 World Cup in Perth. But no-one in the England camp was expecting a repeat of that scoreline at the weekend.
"They're battle-hardened and they're a tough bunch of lads," said Wood.
"The gap has closing between the top teams and the bottom teams."
And Dixon said: "The Scotland game will hold us in good stead and we're not as far away as some people might think."
Johnson said he would wait until after Sunday's World Cup match against Georgia before selecting a replacement for injured prop Andrew Sheridan.
The Sale forward was ruled out of the World Cup on Wednesday after suffering a shoulder injury during England's tournament opening 13-9 win over Argentina in Dunedin last weekend.
England, however, brought five props with them to New Zealand and they are not obliged to select a like-for-like replacement.
Wales v Samoa (Pool D, Sunday, 18 September, 4.30am)
Samoa are optimistic that their fly-half playmaker Tusi Pisi will be fit to face World Cup rivals Wales in Hamilton on Sunday.
Pisi limped off nursing a hamstring injury during Samoa's 49-12 Pool D victory over Namibia on Wednesday.
But he has been named to start in a side showing just one change from that game, with flanker Ofisa Trevaranius replacing Taiasina Tuifua.
"Today he is 80%, and he might be 99% by tomorrow," Samoa coach Titimaea Tafua said. "And we still then have a whole other day before the match."
Tuifua, meanwhile, features on the bench despite suffering a rib injury just minutes after Pisi was hurt against Namibia. Victory for Samoa over Wales - a feat they accomplished at the 1991 and 1999 World Cups - would strengthen their quarter-final claims from a punishing group that also features South Africa and Fiji.
Warren Gatland accepts there will be "no second chances" for Wales if they are beaten.
Wales will arrive in Gatland's home town of Hamilton knowing they must shred the history books and record a first World Cup triumph over the South Sea Islanders.
If they fail to deliver, then successive defeats after last weekend's agonising 17-16 loss to world champions South Africa, would leave Wales facing a probable pool stage exit.
The quality of their rugby against South Africa suggests Gatland's men will still be firmly in the quarter-final mix after events have concluded at Waikato Stadium.
But Wales have twice gone into World Cup battle with Samoa as favourites, and come horribly unstuck both times, losing 16-13 in 1991 and 38-31 eight years later.
"We are all very aware that we must go out and match the performance from last weekend," Gatland said, as he prepares to oversee a Wales team unchanged in successive Tests for the first time since 2006.
"We must win on Sunday, that is the bottom line. There are no second chances after Sunday, it's that important to us."
France v Canada (Pool A, Sunday, 18 September, 9.30am)
Marc Lievremont gave his players a hard time after they were sucked into a scrap by Japan. Starting fly-half Francois Trinh Duc, one of the players scolded by Lievremont after the Japan game, said that the aim was to build a steady momentum within the squad.
"We really want to gain momentum as we go along and to progress both on an individual level and on a collective one," he said.
"We have seen before at World Cups that the winners have not always been the team that has moved the ball the most. We just want to win and to get ourselves set.
If we can add some panache, we will, but against Canada, their defense is very organised and applies pressure and it will be difficult to throw the ball wide.”
Turning to his own game, the Montpellier playmaker said that he had no intention of getting involved in a war of words with his coach.
"Personally I was not happy with the way I played against Japan," he said.
"I felt a bit caught up in the emotion of the moment and I have nothing more to say about it than that. No-one was happy after our win over Japan apart from the result of course. Now it's a new match and we need to concentrate on that before moving on to something else."
Canada got a surprise win against Tonga in their opening fixture.
