France vs Wales; St. Bridget's Day, 2019

joseywhales

God I love france

Squidgy Black

French are imploding here.

Stheno

My Oh goes 'c'mon Wales and they score that try.

I'm contemplating divorce

4Ad

Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »

in the interests of entertainment, i was hoping for more of a contest, but sadly there's only 1 side in it and i see no way back for the Welsh.

The french must of heard you !

Former Former

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

How did Barnes not blow the whistle for the advantage anyway. The kick was awful.

Because he's a great referee

Dave_The_Sheep

Delighted for Huget. Two massively soft tries though. France throwing their first half effort out the window.

dastardly00

"A game of two halves" has never been more appropriate

Itssoeasy

What's the welsh for game on does anyone know ?

sydthebeat

Barnes, great reffing

lawred2

Fuppin hell France

fed_u

I've just turned back over from the u20 game... :eek:

Losty Dublin

Itssoeasy wrote: »

What's the welsh for game on does anyone know ?

Oggy Oggy Oggy.

Kiith

Doing their absolute best to lose this.

Former Former

Itssoeasy wrote: »

What's the welsh for game on does anyone know ?

Wghmtds nvc

baas baa

Wales seem to bring these types of performances out of France whereas whenever we beat them it's always a tight attritional affair.

LuckyGent88

Former Former wrote: »

Because he's a great referee

As a Munster man, I’ll have to disagree!! but in general he is one of the better ones

Losty Dublin

BBC's Eddie Butler asks if you can hear the Welsh singing as the crowd strike up a loud La Marseillaise

Former Former

Synode wrote: »

Incredibly harsh against AWJ

No, incredibly stupid by AWJ

Picamoles wasn't in the ruck, AWJ has no right to touch him. Whether Picamoles would have made the tackle or not doesn't really matter

Clegg

Lol Biggar.

baas baa

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

How did Barnes not blow the whistle for the advantage anyway. The kick was awful.

Real test now for this French team

It was a great kick if he meant it, found grass and was going to stop just short of the goal line, worst case scenario for Wales would've been a 5 metre scrum which they might well have taken.

Losty Dublin

Clegg wrote: »

Lol Biggar.

Kickable as well.

PropJoe10

Eddie Butler: "Can you hear the Welsh fans singing?"
Paulie: "No, that's the Marseillaise".

bilston

Really odd decision to kick for goal given the nature of this game. Stick it in the corner France

troyzer

Former Former wrote: »

Synode wrote: »

Incredibly harsh against AWJ

No, incredibly stupid by AWJ

Picamoles wasn't in the ruck, AWJ has no right to touch him. Whether Picamoles would have made the tackle or not doesn't really matter

100%. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Don't know how he expected to get away with it though.

joseywhales

Did the French clone O'Connell?

Synode

Former Former wrote: »

No, incredibly stupid by AWJ

Picamoles wasn't in the ruck, AWJ has no right to touch him. Whether Picamoles would have made the tackle or not doesn't really matter

Was he not part of it once AWJ grabbed him? Jones had a bind to the ruck. I'm guessing no :pac:

LuckyGent88

That’s 10 points now left behind by France so far.

lawred2

troyzer wrote: »

100%. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Don't know how he expected to get away with it though.

On another day he might very well have.. it happened so quick and so close the ruck that any sort of distraction for the ref at the time and he might have missed it

beertons

The French don't fancy the easy way out.

awec

I always find it interesting how much faster referees will call a turnover when there is penalty advantage against the team winning the turnover.

lawred2

France are still in the dressing room

sydthebeat

awec wrote: »

I always find it interesting how much faster referees will call a turnover when there is penalty advantage against the team winning the turnover.

And he was second man in, should have been another pen

Clegg

France have conceded 2 or 3 pens at the scrum. Interesting as the Welsh scrum isn't known for being a weapon.

vienne86

Wales in front now, thanks to France.

Wheres Me Jumper?

****in brillant!
hat off to the Welsh.

PropJoe10

France have been as dreadful this half as they were good in the first half. Weird game

Wheres Me Jumper?

if the Welsh had a decent kicker from the start?

lawred2

Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »

if the Welsh had a decent kicker from the start?

France have missed about the same off the peg

Wheres Me Jumper?

lawred2 wrote: »

France have missed about the same off the peg

Wales missed/messed up an open try.

Squidgy Black

Williams looks to be in serious pain there with his shoulder.

bilston

Picamoles hit on Williams was surely worthy of a second look?

lawred2

Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »

Wales missed/messed up an open try.

Fair enough but what's that got to do with place kicks..

I was making more of a comment as to shocking standard of place kicking

Wheres Me Jumper?

bilston wrote: »

Picamoles hit on Williams was surely worthy of a second look?

i saw a stamp by the French. should have been called back imo.

sydthebeat

Wales half backs so much better in this half

Squidgy Black

sydthebeat wrote: »

Wales half backs so much better in this half

Because they're different halfbacks?

super_furry

This game is ridiculous. It's like they all decided to start drinking at half-time.

sydthebeat

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Because they're different halfbacks?

Which was my point......

Itssoeasy

Madness.

ScrubsfanChris

Then a guy who isn't a scrum half tries to pass from a ruck......

Clegg

Manky pass from the base for the Lopez drop.