Six Nations 2025

France bringing on a load of young lads in the second half really threw them off. Thought Araudou struggled

Who have they next? Scotland?

Galthie has seriously underperformed given the resources he has, they should kick him out. Always playing the "building" or "project" card but never delivers. They put big scores on crap teams but it ultimately means nothing.

Still think England are very limited and I'd fancy Ireland to be comfortable again against them if they were to play again next week. England were cut open several times only for the French to drop the ball. A reprieve for Borthwick but I think he is reliant on the good coaching Mitchell and F.Smith get at Northampton.

Bookies have ireland at 1.4, France at 2.5, England way out on 8. Sure if France beat us on a low score England could win the competition??

Just watched the game there as I was out earlier in the afternoon. I too was surprised that Italy didn't attempt that final penalty to deny Wales the LBP. At worst, Wales would be kicking back from a 22 drop out or trying to run in a try from behind their own try line in the rain. Wales didn't threaten a try all game other than from 5m lineouts. The risk was very low.

I think itojes influence on game had been curtailed somewhat by the new directives around protecting the 9.

That was one of his strengths to this point.

that England number 11 will be very relieved they got the late try - he should have won that ball in the lead up to the last French try.

After watching the spirit and effort England put into that game yesterday I am very glad we got them out of the way last week, you wouldn't recognise them from the shambles that Eddie Jones left them in.

Two questions - do you think England have played their "final" and will not play as well for the rest of the tournament or will they improve? And will France go out with a wimper or tear into the next few games? Also, surely France can't be that bad again?

It looks like Borthwick hit on his best 10 by chance. So if he sticks with Finn Smith, they could well improve over the tournament. To be fair to England, they put in the same spirited performance against us. Never gave up and got the reward when we switched off.

But. France were a shambles. Had they scored even half their cast iron chances in the first half, I'm not sure England would have stayed with them to the extent they did. It's very hard to know, but Dupont had the worst performance I've ever seen from him, slow passes, inaccurate kicking (in fact there were so many poor over the top dinks, I lost count) and often slow to the breakdown.

Was it missing Ntamack? Jalibert is no slouch and he's been there before, so I'm unsure if that was the cause. Being flakey and playing poorly away from home used to be a feature of France, but that's not been the case for some time. England's blitz defence seemed to rattle them, but it's not as though it's the first time they've faced that. Just inexplicable.

I really don't like it, you saw it with Prendergast last week who was under real time pressure on his secons conversion which he missed. I understand the point it reduces time wasting, maybe the solution to that is to just stop the match clock for conversions.