What is 'success' then? If the aeroplane sells lots, and the program brings the manufacturer a profit, then that is 'success'! Boeing knows what it is doing- it can calculate the anticipated extra efficiency, not quite achieve it, run a program efficiency drive to improve it and get there, and sell lots to airlines that don't want ancient 767s and bigger 777s. How can it fail? It has original ideas. If the program gets cancelled, Airbus will ramp up production of the 350 kidding everyone they are getting something new and selling lots.
Mind you- the latest pictures of the 787 are losing that 'Batplane' look and becoming a tad more conventional, and there is talk the exciting new design ideas are backing off, but the weight saving from modern materials plus modern design efficiencies mean it will be a lot more fuel efficient, it will sell lots (as it is), and it will be a success. Hardly a stab in the dark, is it?
And England won't win. Overpaid nightclub addicts/Ferrari/Porsche drivers with limited football ability. Some of them can't even take penalties for goodness sake! How can a World Cup team field players who flunk like that guy did on a World Cup penalty shootout, and kick other players whilst lying on the ground? Shoddy!