6 Nations

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Lmao, that french water-boy troll.

[Big D]

Very cynical by Wales taking so much time here. I kinda like it.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Is this real? Barnes is too scared to blow up.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Samson Lee will be warming up to come back on soon...

[Big D]

Has to be a yellow here.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

I'll accept coming third just to watch this absolutely BRILLIANT finale.

[Mikey Brown]

What. The. Fuck.

[Big D]

If this is a bite and North hasn't smacked him he's a better man than me.

I was bitten once and I punched the guy that hard I had a bruised knuckle after the game.

[Big D]

Persistent fouling isn't a pen try but should be a yellow

[switchskier]

Only Brian Moore could bring in Trump and Brexit to a tense rugby finale. Love that man.

Actually feel quite sorry for Barnes. Evidently holding onto his patience by the skin of his teeth.

Just call pen try and be done with it.

[Mikey Brown]

My god.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

That was amazing.

[Mikey Brown]

It was... different.

[switchskier]

Draw would have been fair. Not sure that French should have been back on, but you can't argue with the doctor and any doctor has to err on the side of caution.

[switchskier]

How do England get such impressive line speed? Time and again they seem to catch the man behind the gain line, no matter who they're playing. They're not obviously miles offside so how are they getting it done?

Also Ijote is becoming a bit of a liability. That's three times he's been late or high now and he's constantly resting on his elbows at ruck time.

[morepork]

How do England get such impressive line speed? Time and again they seem to catch the man behind the gain line, no matter who they're playing. They're not obviously miles offside so how are they getting it done?

Also Ijote is becoming a bit of a liability. That's three times he's been late or high now and he's constantly resting on his elbows at ruck time.

Moving up in a line together. Offside is harder to spot.

[Adder]

French Player Maestri (capitain at the end of the game against Wales) has made this comment( google translate and a few personal touches):

I feel a great deal of emotion at having finally reversed the vapor. Honestly, a little disgust too, to have been reffed this way, to the end. We think we could have lost a match like that, as was the case against Australia (23-25, ed.) We were destroying their scrum to the end. If we had been Wales, South Africa or Australia, the penalty try would have come very quickly because the dominance was clear. There is therefore a sense of frustration and unfairness

We were refereed as a small team, and it bothered me a lot. We talk a lot about fair play, but Anglo-Saxon referees take us for cheaters, when they should watch what they are up to.

When asked about what his role as a capitain was in those last minutes:

There is no real role. You ask for the scrum each time because if you ask anything else, you're a "con " (fool). After that, it's hard to calm things down. On the edge of the field , it was practically nuclear war. It was also necessary to calm the referee, because the Welsh spoke to him all the time and I pointed out to him that that was not possible. Of course if he spoke French, we too could talk to him all the time! There is always a connivance between the Anglo-Saxon referees and the Anglo-Saxon teams, which can be disturbing, and which takes its full extent in these moments.

[whatisthejava]

Cheating French. The one thing Barnes did right was not awarding the pen try.

[Mellsblue]

This is one of the best things I've ever seen.

[Big D]

Cheating French. The one thing Barnes did right was not awarding the pen try.

Agreed. Although i felt he could have binned another Welsh player or let the scrums go on longer.

[Cameo]

Any Welsh whining about the change of props is also undermined a bit by their attempt to hide Tomas Francis on the bench and go uncontested too

[kk67]

Only Brian Moore could bring in Trump and Brexit to a tense rugby finale. Love that man.

Actually feel quite sorry for Barnes. Evidently holding onto his patience by the skin of his teeth.

Just call pen try and be done with it.

Both teams, their medical staff and their touchline staff were all trying to cheat. And yet it's all Wayne's fault.
He was desperately looking for an exit strategy but one just would not present itself,... so on it went. It was odd but I don't think either team can really complain about it.

[Mikey Brown]

Welcome to the board, fellow rugby enthusiast.