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The Wooden Spoon

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France: 15-Ramos, 14-Penaud, 13-Bastareaud, 12-Fickou, 11-Huget, 10-Ntamack, 9-Dupont; 1-Poirot, 2-Guirado (captain), 3-Bamba, 4-Vahaamahina, 5-Lambey, 6-Lauret, 7-Iturria, 8-Picamoles.

Replacements: 16-Chat, 17-Falgoux, 18-Aldegheri, 19-Willemse, 20-Alldritt, 21-Serin, 22-Belleau, 23-Medard

Scotland: 15-Kinghorn, 14-Seymour, 13-Grigg, 12-Johnson, 11-Maitland, 10-Horne, 9-Laidlaw (captain); 1-Dell, 2-McInally, 3-Berghan, 4-Gilchrist, 5-Gray, 6-Bradbury, 7-Ritchie 8-Strauss.

Replacements: 16-Brown, 17-Allan, 18-Fagerson, 19-Toolis, 20-Graham, 21-Price, 22-Hastings, 23-Graham.

France have too much quality on field to drop this. However every France team of late have had too much quality on field and have dropped it. Scotland are great at the short game but so too are France so the penalty count may be be high. I'd expect this one to be depending on the kicker on this regard and I've a wee bit more faith in Scottish kicking than French kicking.

I'm guessing Scotland to edge this, around the region of a 21-17 win.

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Marengo

If Nucifora and Schmidt went to France..

[Deleted User]

OMG. That was amazing. Chip from Bastareud, my god.

Scotland defending poor though, they're still in the dressing room.

thomond2006

Dupont daring Gilchrist to give away the penalty. Gilchrist obliges.

mangobob

France look like they are finally hitting some form...just in time to face us. Typical.

Marengo

Welcome back France..true rugby fans have missed you

pickarooney

Brunel was the last person in France to realise Dupont needed to start.

thomond2006

Ntamack's kicking. Beautiful.

PhlegmyMoses

Scotland have been absolutely awful

ionadnapóca

Marengo wrote: »

Welcome back France..true rugby fans have missed you

France find a bit of their mojo just in time for Ireland
As per flippin usual

sydthebeat

Jouer jouer jouer....

Marengo

ionadnapokot wrote: »

France find a bit of their mojo just in time for Ireland
As per flippin usual

They'll be away from home though. But true enough.

Still I grew up watching French flair. Great to watch.

thomond2006

Another stunning kick from Ntamack. A lot to study for Ireland.

Amprodude

Just explains why Scotland cannot win the 6 nations. They are a disgrace. 1999 is a long time since they won the competition and last time they beat France in Paris. They are like Ireland in 1990s not there to perform but to fill up the numbers. I think their women's team would put on a better show. 2 dreadful teams.

Marengo

That's the longer term challenge for Ireland in the World Cup. To break the quarter final glass ceiling we'll have to deal with resurgent teams with tradition.

Teams who have won WCs like SA, teams who have made 3 finals, like France. Teams who have made semis, 1987 and 2011, Wales.

We have the worst record of the 6 Nations in WCs bar Italy.

ionadnapóca

Marengo wrote: »

They'll be away from home though. But true enough.

Still I grew up watching French flair. Great to watch.

I’m loving the Toulouse trio
Would have been nice to see it in Twickenham

Barabbas Lecturing Ramos on positioning!!!

thomond2006

Amprodude wrote: »

Just explains why Scotland cannot win the 6 nations. They are a disgrace. 1999 is a long time since they won the competition and last time they beat France in Paris. They are like Ireland in 1990s not there to perform but to fill up the numbers.

On the other hand, they are missing a bunch of players. Ireland would be in trouble in a similar situation.

mangobob

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Barabbas Lecturing Ramos on positioning!!!

Dave_The_Sheep

Huget having a whinge about someone else not covering the backfield after his display last week. What an absolute joke of a player ....

Amprodude

Marengo wrote: »

That's the longer term challenge for Ireland in the World Cup. To break the quarter final glass ceiling we'll have to deal with resurgent teams with tradition.

Teams who have won WCs like SA, teams who have made 3 finals, like France. Teams who have made semis, 1987 and 2011, Wales.

We have the worst record of the 6 Nations in WCs bar Italy.

I think that will eventually change and we might see it this world Cup that they get to semi final stage. England game was the best thing to happen to Ireland this year. Its a reality check and make them believe that they still have work to do.

sydthebeat

Scotland's missed tackles stat at the end of this game is gonna be so embarrassing

Dave_The_Sheep

... and then Huget blows a clear try scoring opportunity. Hope Ramos reams him out of it for that.

PhlegmyMoses

Scotland are so lazy from a tackling standpoint. Guilty of ball watching so often that leads to linebreaks

Amprodude

I think Scotland are making France look alot better than they actually are. The missed tackles by them is something astromical.

ScrubsfanChris

Frances inability to score from anything but quick breaks is incredible.
They're worse when playing with structure.

ionadnapóca

mangobob wrote: »

:D

Marengo

Amprodude wrote: »

I think that will eventually change and we might see it this world Cup that they get to semi final stage. England game was the best thing to happen to Ireland this year. Its a reality check and make them believe that they still have work to do.

While it was a reality check it knocked confidence too.

Hope we get it back. It's a thin line between complacency and lacking confidence.

pickarooney

Amprodude wrote: »

Just explains why Scotland cannot win the 6 nations. They are a disgrace. 1999 is a long time since they won the competition and last time they beat France in Paris. They are like Ireland in 1990s not there to perform but to fill up the numbers. I think their women's team would put on a better show. 2 dreadful teams.

What's dreadful about France today? A few wasted opportunities and some poor handling errors aside.

[Deleted User]

Mad game. Only way to describe it:

dross, dross, dross, amazing, dross, amazing, dross, dross, dross,dross, dross, dross, dross, dross, dross,dross, dross, dross, amazing, dross, dross, dross, dross, dross, dross, amazing dross, dross, dross...

sydthebeat

Griggs size might be ok to shine at pro 14, bit I don't think he's big enough for test level.... He's spent more minutes today on his back than a cheap hooker

PhlegmyMoses

Ntamack an embarrassment there