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GIGS20
Fwiw the injury protocol with world cup is the injured player needs to become unavailable for the remainder of the tournament. World rugby must approve the injury before a player can be replaced, but I'm pretty sure that's based upon a submission from the team doctor, so there's be some leeway there.
Apparently world rugby get participants to nominate an initial 50 player squad outside of which nobody can be selected as a replacement and then the 33 is selected from that squad.
Unsure whether that is post Stephen Donald's whitebait callup, because surely nobody would put 5 flyhalves in their 50 man squad would they?