great day of rugby

shrapnel222

i have to say, i had a fantastic day watching the rugby. it is very rare where you watch 2 or 3 games on the same day and they keep you rivetted to your seat.i'm french and really enjoyed ireland's game because they came out and were hungry for every ball, scored lots of tries and played well. Italy, the same, after playing their best ever six nations, they never gave up, and wanted to prove to themselves mainly, that they could score against anyone. Ireland ended up putting a very decent bar up for france to win the tournament. As a frenchman, i have to say, after last week's performance against the english, i couldn't have cared less if they won the tourney, all i wanted was the grand slam, anything less was unacceptable in this world cup year. so when the game started, all i cared about was france winning the match, not the tournament, but then momentum built up in the match and i was jumping up and down looking for those extra points. what an exciting game and what a great result.
Then came wales england- one trying to avoid the wooden spoon, the other trying to build on a solid victory, and more importantly to place a few more blocks in to what looks like a seriously good group of young players. the old rivals churned out an awesome match, and wales did not want to lose that game at any cost, so pride turned out to be an awesome motivator, hook an awesome number 10, and the six nations, once again a great tournament.

bring on the world cup!!!!!!!!

Flukey

Yes, they were good matches today. Cruel finish on us by France against Scotland, for the second time, but we did have a few dodgy tries awarded against Italy.

Steffano2002

shrapnel222 wrote:

[...] As a frenchman, i have to say, after last week's performance against the english, i couldn't have cared less if they won the tourney, all i wanted was the grand slam, anything less was unacceptable in this world cup year. so when the game started, all i cared about was france winning the match, not the tournament [...]

Felt exactly the same! But we won it so I guess I'm happy enough... We let ourselves down in Twickenham. Should have let Mignoni play... Class player!

peckerhead

Yup. No 'losers' today, really — great rugby.

Ireland lost the championship to France back on 11th February. Then won it back today in Rome. And then France won it back again in Paris...

Steffano2002

peckerhead wrote:

Yup. No 'losers' today, really — great rugby.

Ireland lost the championship to France back on 11th February. Then won it back today in Rome. And then France won it back again in Paris...

Nice way of looking at it!

shrapnel222

Steffano2002 wrote:

Felt exactly the same! But we won it so I guess I'm happy enough... We let ourselves down in Twickenham. Should have let Mignoni play... Class player!

he definitely has the edge over yachvilli at the moment. i also thought ibanez had an incredible game, and worked harder than anyone, and jauzion the same. he kept asking questions, looking for the ball, and as always found some great lines to run

timmywex

great day for euopean rugby!!

i watched the first two games but was mytyified by them!! they were really great and i was on the edge of my seat all the time!!

peckerhead

Steffano2002 wrote:

Nice way of looking at it!

Merci!

It was nice at the end to see the emotion in Ibanez's face.
Why, he was crying just like a... Munster prop forward?