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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    ahem
    ddraver said:

    See, after that charge down, england just pass it wide to player after player standing still. When there's eventually a breakdown it's literally a step or two for the next french player to hug the ball and win a penalty. He's literally closer that the nearest english player

    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    France definitely wanting and succeeding in putting a big marker down ahead of the WC.
    Aldritt back in form having been very average in the previous games.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    A better start to the second half
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    I think that was a try personally
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Can't see how that wasn't a try.
    Control is irrelevant. Just downward pressure which there was and it ddn't go forward.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Pross said:

    Is van Poortvliet really the best scrum half available to England?

    Answer to that seems to be no.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    That's what happens when you don't kick...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Can't see how that wasn't a try.
    Control is irrelevant. Just downward pressure which there was and it ddn't go forward.

    Yeah, he seemed to stay in contact with it so no knock on for me. They got there in the end though.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    France re-establish their lead with le bonus point try.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Smith playing like an old school fly half and trying to avoid contact at all cost there.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    Ramos rips through the English defence and it could be another try…..
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Ooh that is poor play!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Great awareness by the French player though and well spotted by the ref.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Smart by France.
    Their second row who has scored twice is some player.

    England getting humped and now playing an 8 in the centre....
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    Smith is having a mare in the second half.
    Dupont sends them back 60 metres…
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    France getting themselves in trouble trying to run it out from their own line.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    blazing_saddles said:

    Smith is having a mare in the second half.
    Dupont sends them back 60 metres…

    Really doesn't help having Farrell brought on, and so wrong him taking over captaincy whilst Genge still there.
    Been men versus boys.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Analysis at its finest “if England had taken a few of their chances it would be a different score”. To think they get paid for that sort of thing.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Could be conceding 50 points here.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Ouch! Wales could easily lose by 70 or 80 next week based on this.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Utter humiliation.
    The worst defeat I can remember since the Tour of Hell.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    It would be stopped if it was a boxing match.
    It’s becoming uncomfortable to watch, not least because Wales have this to look forward to next weekend.

    Meanwhile, England go to Ireland….
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    This is just a joke now...

    Borthwick genuinely in trouble I reckon, It was never close to this bad with Eddie Jones.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    France still defending like it is a single score game. I think it’s pretty clear that the ex-coach Wales were missing most wasn’t Gatland.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Pross said:

    France still defending like it is a single score game. I think it’s pretty clear that the ex-coach Wales were missing most wasn’t Gatland.

    So true, and the RFU should have nabbed him when they could.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    edited March 2023
    He'd have the same problem EJ had though in that he wouldn't suck the RFU big wigs dick's often enough though...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Pross said:

    France still defending like it is a single score game. I think it’s pretty clear that the ex-coach Wales were missing most wasn’t Gatland.

    So true, and the RFU should have nabbed him when they could.
    Wales could have kept him, were it not for the numpties in charge of the purse strings.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Pross said:

    France still defending like it is a single score game. I think it’s pretty clear that the ex-coach Wales were missing most wasn’t Gatland.

    So true, and the RFU should have nabbed him when they could.
    Chuck in getting rid of Andy Farrell and the success he has gone on to with Ireland…
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    You have to hope the Lions are talking to Farrell snr and Shaun Edwards already.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,287
    Hahaha haha 😄

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