RugbyRebels

Need to get hold of some ball. First 10 minutes of the second half have been all France.

Right, time to tighten this shit up. Come on.

We've been infected with a Northern handling virus.

It's a moron competition.

We're winning that at the moment.

It's an internal thing.

I’d say the referee is Barnesing it at the moment.

The best you could say about the second half is that we took our opportunity.

That final half hour was like watching 30 epileptics at a rave.

I'm going to blame it on the weather.

rowan wrote:Yes, if anything the All Blacks are more likely to be over-confident at this point than suffering any panic attacks. But I still think the margin will be between 20 & 30. Hopefully they'll prove me wrong.

Rain slowed it down a bit. Pretty ugly game, I thought. All Blacks' winning streak against Les Bleus now extends to 11.

When a referee literally states that it's OK to tackle a player without the ball because he was about to get a pass his way, then he's clearly lost the plot. Fucking pathetic from Gardner.

cashead wrote:When a referee literally states that it's OK to tackle a player without the ball because he was about to get a pass his way, then he's clearly lost the plot. Fucking pathetic from Gardner.

That’s a thing I hate that crops up quite a lot. Thy “commit” to tackling the wrong man, which is somehow justification.

I noticed he refereed the whole match in English, too. I think it's time rugby started looking at this issue. Rugby's supposedly a global game now. Refs are professional. I'm not saying they should be bilingual, but a reasonable grasp of the other team's vernacular would be useful.

NZ Completely dominated the game. Even when they went to sleep, they seemed in Control.

I did like the showing of some of the young French Players, Dupont (9)/Ducuing (15) and I thought Teddy Thomas was fairly solid in defence for once.

Scotland won't be as physical as the French but they are (bar Samoa game) slightly more disciplined and play as a team. Wll the Abs A team turn up this time?

Shame Teddy didn't score that second try. France really had the momentum at that point. Reminiscent of Cueto's non-try in the 2007 RWC final - just has a couple of toes in touch by the looks of it...

If the Blacks hadn't taken their foot off the gas in the second half, they'd have won by a country mile. Not what you'd expect from the world's best.

Spy wrote:Jesus sbw.

It was baffling why the commentators in the version watched were baffled by what he did. That's what they do in League, just in case it wasn't clear.

francoisfou wrote:If the Blacks hadn't taken their foot off the gas in the second half, they'd have won by a country mile. Not what you'd expect from the world's best.

it was pi55ing with rain, plus they have other matches to come.

Banquo wrote:

Spy wrote:Jesus sbw.

It was baffling why the commentators in the version watched were baffled by what he did. That's what they do in League, just in case it wasn't clear.

And the yellow card was fair, but the penalty try was bullshit.

No one to blame for that but Silly Billy himself!

cashead wrote:

Banquo wrote:

Spy wrote:Jesus sbw.

It was baffling why the commentators in the version watched were baffled by what he did. That's what they do in League, just in case it wasn't clear.

And the yellow card was fair, but the penalty try was bullshit.

Another of the referee's ... "baffling" decisions.

You can hear him on the mic saying he thought the French play would have scored, when he gives the penalty try, even though you hear him a minute earlier saying the opposite.

To be fair, getting a yellow card in your ingoal area with the opposition within touch would usually cost your team a penalty try. Huget was just behind SBW .

Realised there is a second test on tuesday evening (wednesday morning NZ).

French team is completely different bar Trin Dhuc.

 : 15. Spedding (Clermont); 14. G. Lacroix (La Rochelle), 13. Chavancy (Racing 92), 12. Danty (Stade Français), 11. H. Bonneval(Toulon); 10. Trinh-Duc (Toulon), 9. Lesgourgues (Bordeaux-Bègles) - 7. Macalou (Stade Français), 8. Tauleigne (Bordeaux-Bègles), 6. Lauret (Racing 92) - 5. R. Taofifenua (Toulon), 4. Maestri (Toulouse) - 3. Hamadache(Pau), 2. Chat (Racing 92), 1. Priso (Toulouse).

Les remplaçants : 16. Tolofua (Saracens), 17. Boughanmi (Stade rochelais), 18. Pointud (Stade toulousain), 19. Le Devedec (Brive), 20. Sanconnie (Brive), 21. Machenaud (Racing 92), 22. Plisson (Stade français), 23. Rattez (Stade Rochelais).

A bit lighter in the backs
A lot of young ones/new caps who play well for their respective club.
Expecting a basketball score for the Abs.



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It's Wrestlemania. France up 15-14.

Lineout gone to fish paste.