Next up.....France

[16th man]

Time for laurence in midfield now

[Beasties]

Slade off.

[Mikey Brown]

The number of times today we've just shovelled the ball down the line today with no threat to the defence. Slade has actually attacked the line a couple of times but it's not really what he's made for.

[Galfon]

Last chance..

[Beasties]

We put some good phases together there but got overexcited at the end. Youngs should've stayed on.

[Galfon]

Good work Itoje.!

[Beasties]

That was on the ground.

[Freddo]

Well I didn't think that would be given.

[16th man]

Get in. Discipline so crucial now.

[Beasties]

Phew, thought they were competing with the Adams non-try there.

[Galfon]

23 - 20, 78 mins.
Con Faz,
Well deserved Eng intensity.

[Galfon]

Fair call ..pressure back on.

[Which Tyler]

And that puts us in the lead - not quite sure how that happened

[Beasties]

Earl lucky there.

[Beasties]

Oh.

[Freddo]

Why was that reversed? I missed it.

[Galfon]

That'll do..

[Beasties]

I would've given it to Itoje rather than Watson. He's been in French faces all match.

[normanski]

Come on chaps, a win by a point will do us.

I did ask for a one point win but three.....!

[Galfon]

FT Eng 23 - 20 Fra
Could have gone either way, but we'll take that.
Eng edged territory & posession so fair-do's

[Banquo]

That’ll do pig. Good stones second half. Knock ins nearly killed us

[Beasties]

Got to be happy with that. France look like a bloody good team and we've managed to beat them. Considering how we've played for months that's a great result.

[16th man]

Fantastic game.

Decent credit to Ewels too, I thought did the Kruis style solid performance, did the basics, cut out the pens.

[16th man]

That’ll do pig. Good stones second half. Knock ins nearly killed us

We've developed a bad habit of kicking it out of our own rucks

[Galfon]

What a better spectacle when teams don't keep kicking the ball away, and more experienced refs. try and let the game flow.