France vs Ireland...England $hat the bed..it's on!

kuang1

V brief last minute match thread here...

Teams:




Ireland win the title if winning by 6 points or more including a try scored, or by 7 points or more if we don't score a try.

Simples!

kuang1

Mods... Please merge into a match thread?

perrito caliente

Exciting enough awl night in fairness lads. Like old times c'MON Ireland!!

Bleating Lamb

In fairness the Italians battled all the way through...If we pull it off tonight we can forgive the ities for bringing over Covid in the Spring;)

PTH2009

What will France have to do to win the title ?

Edit there out of it

Stheno

PTH2009 wrote: »

What will France have to do to win the title ?

Edit there out of it

They need to win with a bp i think?

OldRio

No there not. France by a big score and 4 tries. 30 odd points

lawred2

Is it as simple as a seven point win?

Clegg

Don't like how much the commentators on Virgin afe writing off Frances chances of winning the title.

RonaVirus

At least pipe in someone singing.

molloyjh

Clegg wrote: »

Don't like how much the commentators on Virgin afe writing off Frances chances of winning the title.

They need a TBP win of 31 points or more. Their biggest winning margin so far this year has been 13 points, with the 38 points last week being their largest points haul so far this year. Its not impossible that they do it, but it is incredibly unlikely. They are effectively out of it.

Clegg

La Marseillaise is the best national anthem. But it's really nothing without fans in the stadium to belt it out.

jammiedodgers

Clegg

Great steal from Doris.

Clegg

Go for points from inside our own half?

Jaysus.

Squidgy Black

Points clearly the main focus here with this tactic, not a bad attempt in fairness

Harpon

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Points clearly the main focus here with this tactic, not a bad attempt in fairness

He was never going to make that in a million years. Idiotic.

Beechwoodspark

Oh ffs

Squidgy Black

Miserably soft. Porter got burned completely

dublinman1990

Aaaahhh......bad start for us.

Oh Ireland please don't waste the opportunity to win the championship tonight. We need you to do well here. It is literally the most easiest big win that you could ever asked for given to you at the last minute. That job is even more significant now within a global pandemic that has f*cked the world so many times over most of the current year. A simple try or two could win it for us lads. C'mon Ireland. Do us proud!

theVersatile

Harpon wrote: »

He was never going to make that in a million years. Idiotic.

He has the distance and was barely wide - no harm in going for it

BringBackMick

Ouch

randomname2005

Harpon wrote: »

He was never going to make that in a million years. Idiotic.

Easily had the distance

Losty Dublin

Clegg wrote: »

Go for points from inside our own half?

Jaysus.

It was some wallop. Though I wouldn’t put any money on him in the last 10 minutes.

Bastard try BTW

Buer

Fickou beat Porter and a corner flagging Murray.

Absolutely not their faults. Damage was done by the defensive push inside them.

tayto lover

Like a knife through butter. Not a hand laid on him.

Clegg

Gonna be picky and say Stockdale should've properly hit Dupont as he was going over the line. Let him run further to get an easier kick in goal.

ScrubsfanChris

French player that batted the ball back in stepped in touch first then landed out of touch as well.
Lineout Ireland.

Harpon

theVersatile wrote: »

He has the distance and was barely wide - no harm in going for it

Obviously there was harm as France scored a try from it

champchamp

Why do they keep saying that we have to win by 13?

Mervyn Skidmore

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

French player that batted the ball back in stepped in touch first then landed out of touch as well.
Lineout Ireland.

Looked fine to me, would need to see a replay.

theVersatile

Harpon wrote: »

Obviously there was harm as France scored a try from it

Yes because the kick at gila was directly related to the try...

Has to be a PT

Squidgy Black

Superb kick, and absolutely brain dead by the French player

Clegg

That's a pen try

Burkie1203

Pen try yc

The Lost Sheep

Thats not enough for a penalty try. but penalty and yellow only

A-Train

Has to be a penalty try

Squidgy Black

Fickou was never going to cover that, Keenan was always going to recover that if it wasn't slapped

Clegg

Keenan's definitely scoring. Fickou is too far away.

laugh

Haha, English ref team not giving the pen try.

Losty Dublin

The most cynical and stupid penalty try ever to get away with.

fitz

He overran it cause he was also pushed in the back by the 15, harsh not to give the penalty try tbh.

Squidgy Black

Don't understand that logic at all when you take the French 14 out of the picture

Squidgy Black

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Fickou was never going to cover that, Keenan was always going to recover that if it wasn't slapped

Back over his head, hard to say whether he would have regathered. Even if he did, it wasn't a sure try.

omerin

What a lot of bollix, pen try all day long. The joys of an english ref

eigrod

Ffs

That has to be a Penalty try. I happen to think the Yellow Card is harsh, Sonny Bill got one for similar when he switched code because he was used to doing it in league, complete brainfart. Could see the realisation that he'd ****ed up afterwards there.

Ah well.

Clegg

Feck off Barnes. If not for the blue knock on Keenan scores.

He's literally on the line as it's knocked away from his hands.

randomname2005

Basil3 wrote: »

Back over his head, hard to say whether he would have regathered. Even if he did, it wasn't a sure try.

He was pushed which didn't help

That was a clear penalty try to me.

Clegg

Not often you see an attacking maul mullered like that.