6N: France vs Wales, Sat 9th Feb, 5pm

.ak

Le XV de départ:
Huget ; Fofana, Bastareaud, Mermoz, Fall ; (o) Michalak, (m) Machenaud ;
Dusautoir (cap), Picamoles, Ouedraogo ; Maestri, Suta ; Mas, Szarzewski, Forestier.

Les remplaçants: Kayser, Debaty, Ducalcon, Taofifenua, Chouly, Parra, Trinh-Duc, Fritz.

Wales:
15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 George North, 10 Dan Biggar, 9 Mike Phillips, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Justin Tipuric, 6 Ryan Jones (c), 5 Ian Evans, 4 Andrew Coombs, 3 Adam Jones, 2 Richard Hibbard, 1 Gethin Jenkins.
Replacements: 16 Ken Owens, 17 Paul James, 18 Craig Mitchell, 19 Lou Reed, 20 Aaron Shingler, 21 Lloyd Williams, 22 James Hook, 23 Scott Williams.

Fishooks13

Brent comparing the celebrations of BOD vs Picamoles kind of sums up the woeful analysis on RTE

.ak

Ha, on BBC. Wtf?

PerrinV2

I like horgan's analysis in the studio

19543261

Fishooks13 wrote: »

Brent comparing the celebrations of BOD vs Picamoles kind of sums up the woeful analysis on RTE

The french evidently didnt care about that game. I think how a team behaves around the field is very telling.

Cosmo Kramer

Fishooks13 wrote: »

Brent comparing the celebrations of BOD vs Picamoles kind of sums up the woeful analysis on RTE

Its no better on BBC, we've gone from hopelessly biased pro-Scotland opinion to hopelessly biased pro-Wales opinion now.

thomond2006

Fishooks13 wrote: »

Brent comparing the celebrations of BOD vs Picamoles kind of sums up the woeful analysis on RTE

some of the stuff on Saint-Andre and Top14 was over the top

Fishooks13

19543261 wrote: »

The french evidently didnt care about that game. I think how a team behaves around the field is very telling.

Ah ya but comparing the celebrations of two players in two different games is ridiculous !

Celly Smunt

i ****ing love the french anthem.

19543261

Fishooks13 wrote: »

Ah ya but comparing the celebrations of two players in two different games is ridiculous !

Hahah, I suppose. I wish they'd drop the bad cop/good cop thing and just take on 3 Horgans.

mfceiling

And the wife just heads off for the evening in the car.

*waves from the window*

Tv up full blast!!

Fishooks13

can't wait for this!

grey_so_what

Get the gardener!

Felexicon

The hack of the pitch after that scrum.
Could be a long night of resets

19543261

Rolland trying to take a piece of dirt back with him to Ireland...

Fishooks13

Preistland and the words "form" should not go in the same sentence unless it is proceeded by the word "bad"

whatawaster

It's just occurred to me that I rarely see a scrum turned 90 degrees nowadays. It seemed to happen loads when I was younger. Is there a reason for this?

Felexicon

Was that a drop goal attempt?

liammur

pmcmahon wrote: »

i ****ing love the french anthem.

Can't beat it when they're at home.

France to win, but not by the 9 points handicap.

mfceiling

Is it just me or is this incredibly sh*te so far?

vienne86

mfceiling wrote: »

Is it just me or is this incredibly sh*te so far?

Very dull.

liammur

Stay on the beach is my advice.

chippers

Looks like the Welsh saw that Clancy was the referee and are attempting the notoriously irish choke tackle at every chance.

Swiwi

mfceiling wrote: »

Is it just me or is this incredibly sh*te so far?

No, it's just not you! Not the game so far to convince a SH viewer that the 6N is much cop. Hopefully Ire v Eng can save the day.

Based on what I've seen today so far, if Ire can win tomorrow, there is no reason not to expect a grand slam is possible.

bilston

This is dreadful fare so far.

its_phil

Beautiful kick by Biggar

.ak

Both teams sh1te so far.

ednwireland

whats with the pitch, was it laid yesterday ffs, disgrace for an international pitch really annoys me with them relaying pitches all the time, its not like they dont know what these guys are going to do on them.

Inspector Coptoor

Unreal hit by Bastareud on Roberts.
two 17 stone centres going smash into each other.
ONRAIL

liammur

Swiwi wrote: »

No, it's just not you! Not the game so far to convince a SH viewer that the 6N is much cop. Hopefully Ire v Eng can save the day.

It beats me how people can say the 6N is top tournament. Game is slowly improving though.

Fishooks13

liammur wrote: »

It beats me how people can say the 6N is top tournament. Game is slowly improving though.

You must have missed last weekend.

ednwireland

france finally turn up
still dont score

Swiwi

Huget owes Fofana a drink. Butchered a try there.

Pudsy33

liammur wrote: »

It beats me how people can say the 6N is top tournament. Game is slowly improving though.

did you not watch last weekend? To say it's not a top competition is daft.

bilston

Better from France. Huget, Fall and Basteraud looking good.

liammur

Pudsy33 wrote: »

did you not watch last weekend? To say it's not a top competition is daft.

It's not the top tournament, that should get rid of your stupid blue face.

dtpc191991

Welsh just nicked our choke tackle. XD

corny

Wales doing brilliantly to not concede in that passage.

19543261

liammur wrote: »

It's not the top tournament, that should get rid of your stupid blue face.

I'd like to see the definition of a Top Tournament.

Pudsy33

liammur wrote: »

It's not the top tournament, that should get rid of your stupid blue face.

I agree, but that's not what your original post said.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Bad sign when there's a Mexican wave going around the stadium after 25 minutes

liammur

19543261 wrote: »

I'd like to see the definition of a Top Tournament.

My point is, the 6N isn't better than SH one. To me that's the top tournament, but others can have their opinions too.

Fishooks13

deccurley wrote: »

Bad sign when there's a Mexican wave going around the stadium after 25 minutes

Ah it's not that bad a game

Stheno

Went out for a while, glad to see I haven't missed much

Cosmo Kramer

Major issue for Wales at 10. Its not like they're missing a good 10 due to injury either. They really need Prince Harry to develop into an international standard 10 fairly quickly.

justsomebloke

liammur wrote: »

that should get rid of your stupid blue face.

And we will take a few days off

Inspector Coptoor

Great catch by Roberts.
He's starting to be his effective self again.

I like seeing Hibbard getting a chance.
Was talking to him back in October, very sound lad.
Matthew Rhees, not so much.

19543261

liammur wrote: »

My point is, the 6N isn't better than SH one. To me that's the top tournament, but others can have their opinions too.

Fair enough

marco_polo

Stheno wrote: »

Went out for a while, glad to see I haven't missed much

Your just in time it only starting now really

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Fishooks13 wrote: »

Ah it's not that bad a game

I didnt think so either but 80,000 Frenchman seem to disagree!!

Fishooks13

liammur wrote: »

My point is, the 6N isn't better than SH one. To me that's the top tournament, but others can have their opinions too.

You said the six nations isn't a top tournament, you didn't even mention the rugby championship

It is a top tournament, might not always be a great spectacle though