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6 Nations 2019 Build Up thread

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    #332
    penybont exile
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭penybont exile


    Roof irrelevant .....

    Airport pints as flight delayed

    Gonna be good tomorrow.


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    #333
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    penybont exile wrote: »
    Roof irrelevant .....

    Airport pints as flight delayed

    Gonna be good tomorrow.

    Start as you mean to go on.


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    #334
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Dupont has done more in 5 minutes than the other SHs in two matches.


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    #335
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    The French TV director was hopeless there...probably deliberately so!


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    #336
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Dupont has done more in 5 minutes than the other SHs in two matches.

    He looks Test quality
    Nice pass
    Great step
    And that’s not a knock on!


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    #337
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    Their Back!!
    Lovely FB play


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    #338
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    You see with some of the talent coming through in France, if they actually got a decent coaching team in place they'd be deadly.


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    #339
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    bilston wrote: »
    You see with some of the talent coming through in France, if they actually got a decent coaching team in place they'd be deadly.
    Joe


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    #340
    griffinlee
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭griffinlee


    laidlaw is just soooooo slow, completely opposite to the type of rugby scotland want to play with high tempo glasgow style. laidlaw is like a snail rocking up to the rucks..


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    #341
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    ionadnapokot wrote: »
    Joe

    I think I saw a tweet from BOD along those lines a week or two ago.

    But with Dupont, Ntamack, Penaud, Ramos, Fickou (albeit a lot more established) and Carbonel to come through as well they have some frightening attacking talent in the backs. They just need a bit of structure defensively without taking away from their flair.

    We're seeing a bit of a rebirth in Toulouse this year, maybe that can be passed on to France as well.


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    #342
    accensi0n
    Registered Users Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Is leading with the forearm or elbow not illegal?


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    #343
    testtech05
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭testtech05


    accensi0n wrote: »
    Is leading with the forearm or elbow not illegal?

    Was surprised it wasn't checked thought it should have been a yellow.


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    #344
    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,276 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    testtech05 wrote: »
    Was surprised it wasn't checked thought it should have been a yellow.

    Ref says TMO checked it


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    #345
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    bilston wrote: »
    I think I saw a tweet from BOD along those lines a week or two ago.

    But with Dupont, Ntamack, Penaud, Ramos, Fickou (albeit a lot more established) and Carbonel to come through as well they have some frightening attacking talent in the backs. They just need a bit of structure defensively without taking away from their flair.

    We're seeing a bit of a rebirth in Toulouse this year, maybe that can be passed on to France as well.

    And Marchand!
    Not forgetting Chat....or Baptiste-Serin!
    The talent available is staggering
    But performances are just amateurish


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    #346
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Ah glorious


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    #347
    testtech05
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭testtech05


    Burkie1203 wrote: »
    Ref says TMO checked it

    Oh sorry didn't catch that. Surprised but I only saw from one angle.


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    #348
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,876 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Nae gonnae count unfortunately.


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    #349
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    bilston wrote: »
    Ah glorious

    Pity


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    #350
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Ah sometimes I hate the TMO...even if it's the correct call


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    #351
    testtech05
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭testtech05


    That's a great score
    Correction would be but for the knock on!!


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    #352
    Itssoeasy
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    Should have been ten all and it looks like France will be 17-3 up.

    Edit: maybe not.


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    #353
    bilston
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    ionadnapokot wrote: »
    And Marchand!
    Not forgetting Chat....or Baptiste-Serin!
    The talent available is staggering
    But performances are just amateurish

    What's happened to Serin? He's someone I was really impressed with a year or so ago


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    #354
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    bilston wrote: »
    What's happened to Serin? He's someone I was really impressed with a year or so ago

    He's on the bench, coming back from a fairly poor year performance wise.


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    #355
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    bilston wrote: »
    What's happened to Serin? He's someone I was really impressed with a year or so ago

    Not sure
    His pass is something to behold


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    #356
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057958804/3/#post109505390

    Match thread for France vs. Scotland.


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    #357
    [Deleted User]
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    That French try is nailed on try of the tournament - special.


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    #358
    Buer
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    bilston wrote: »
    You see with some of the talent coming through in France, if they actually got a decent coaching team in place they'd be deadly.
    They produce more talent still than any other nation in the northern hemisphere. Every year there are two or three guys who would be in the Irish 23 based on natural talent.

    They have absolutely no idea what to do with them though or how to nurture and manage their talent. Their selection policies and lack of structures just crush and isolate those guys.


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    #359
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    glasso wrote: »
    That French try is nailed on try of the tournament - special.

    Eh!!!!! Spoke too soon!
    Bastareaud with a chip over the top!!!!!!


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    #360
    Thrashssacre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Thrashssacre


    https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/47388295

    Feel a bit sorry for them, I really can’t see who would take them be it in club rugby or international. Just not enough money in it for any of the competitions to be interested. I also don’t see a way for them to get their decent players back from Abroad to make a club side competitive and the pro 14 can not afford any more teams that are uncompetitive.


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    #361
    Eod100
    Registered Users Posts: 11,696 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Thrashssacre wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/47388295

    Feel a bit sorry for them, I really can’t see who would take them be it in club rugby or international. Just not enough money in it for any of the competitions to be interested. I also don’t see a way for them to get their decent players back from Abroad to make a club side competitive and the pro 14 can not afford any more teams that are uncompetitive.

    I know they're in the Rugby Europe Championship but guess they're looking for something at club level as 6N won't change to allow them to break into the 6N.

    A play-off for promotion/relegation between winners of REC and last-placed 6N could be interesting, but not sure if winner of REC would beat last placed in 6N and would it be fairest way to do it. But I don't think there's any appetite for that either way.


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