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France v Wales (pre/during/post thread)

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    #92
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    Opportunity for France to take the lead here, I think it was M Williams offside.

    Parra just pulls his attempt left by a shade.

    48mins: France 13 Wales 13.


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    #93
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    Try France, Heymans.

    Great finish to go through/around four Welsh defenders.

    Parra hit the post with the conversion.

    54mins: France 18 Wales 13

    Bennett, Peel and Henson on for Wales as they change it up.


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    #94
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    This should pop the bubble now.


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    #95
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    Nearly messed that up, Heymans did really well


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    #96
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    chupacabra wrote: »
    I've 20 squid on for a 20 - 20 draw... who knows...

    Missed conversion means that you can't win your bet now, hard luck


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    #97
    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭robo


    I think the French team deserve to win, they are a different team to when we played them. They have a fire in their eyes and are not afraid to execute! Wales I think were a bit more complacent about this match after beating England.


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    #98
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    robo wrote: »
    I think the French team deserve to win, they are a different team to when we played them. They have a fire in their eyes and are not afraid to execute! Wales I think were a bit more complacent about this match after beating England.

    Wales were in a bubble of confidence (patten pending im waiting for Hook to coin this) and it's just about disappeared.


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    #99
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Now this resembles the Wales we all knew in 2007 (Pre & During RWC,) clueless.


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    #100
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    Another Parra kick clips the post, after a great start that's two penalties and a conversion he's missed.

    65mins: France 18 Wales 13.


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    #101
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    Wow France hit the post twice, game could be all but over if they had made them


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    #102
    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭robo


    They really shouldn't be missing such penalties!
    The French are looking for opportunities and taking them with both hands...the Welsh are watching from the sideline for France to hand them a try...that is not how it works if you want to be a world class team!


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    #103
    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    any streams?? mine just went down??


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    #104
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    Trinh-Duc with a dropgoal attempt after a Jauzion break to bring them into the Welsh 22. Missed to the right.

    More French attacks and Wales concede another penalty. Hook is now on at outhalf for Jones.


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    #105
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    Parra gets the French penalty to put a gap of 8 points between them with ten minutes to go.

    70mins: France 21 Wales 13.


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    #106
    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,256 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    What an amazing game - must be the match of the tournament so far. Harinordoquy and Shanklin both playing very well. Never realised just how lazy Chabal is.


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    #107
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    Hook with a penalty for Wales, to bring them back to five points. Would have been 7 points except for an outstanding try-saving tackle on Byrne by Dusautoir.

    72mins: France 21 Wales 16.


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    #108
    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    found a stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/503010


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    #109
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Buestraud really loves lining up those tackles from long winded passes.


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    #110
    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭robo


    Bloody wires over the pitch are interferring with the kicks :rolleyes:


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    #111
    NickNolte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭NickNolte


    This is exciting stuff.


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    #112
    juvenal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    At this stage Wales don't deserve to win, if they steal it at the death here the French will rue the missed penalties and conversion.

    France WIN!!!!!!!!!

    Fulltime: France 21 Wales 16 - outstading by France, especially when they went ten down. I didn't want a Welsh loss for Irish reasons, I want the best team to win, and the French fully deserved to beat Wales tonight.


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    #113
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Brilliant, lovely stuff. That gives us some leverage in some way with tomorrow. Let's hope this is the downfall of Wales in this years tournament.


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    #114
    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭robo


    Good match!
    Now I hope that the Irish team watched this as we have a great opportunity now!


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    #115
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    Happy with that :) France could have thrown it away there at the end


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    #116
    df1985
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    wow that was tense, i really thought wales were in near the end.the atmosphere in paris sounded amazing.


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    #117
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Finally got one right for a change
    Stev_o wrote: »
    It is a slightly bad team that is short of confidence and ideas but bearing in mind that the shackles seemed to come off against Wales and they started to believe in themselves they looked dangerous. Mean look at Wales, they riding in a bubble of confidence if someone gets at them again as hard as England i think it could easily burst.

    :pac:


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    #118
    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,256 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Fantastic game. I was nearly as nervous in the last couple of minutes as during an Irish match. Roll on tomorrow evening.


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    #119
    barnesd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭barnesd


    eoin wrote: »
    What an amazing game - must be the match of the tournament so far. Harinordoquy and Shanklin both playing very well. Never realised just how lazy Chabal is.

    Was quality but Ireland v France was better imo.


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    #120
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    The last 10 minutes made for what was an awful 2nd half Welsh performance.


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    #121
    corny
    Registered Users Posts: 7,806 ✭✭✭corny


    Good game. The French should have won by more. Delighted Henson threw it away at the end. No better man!

    Hard up in their faces really limits the Welsh gameplan. If you stop them getting over the gainline they're not that special, Ireland should take them.


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