France vs Italy, Sunday 9 Feb 3pm Irish time; RTE/BBC

molloyjh

stephen_n wrote: »

Who is the ref?

Jaco Payper.

Pudsy33

I enjoyed that! I'm clearly weird.

molloyjh

Kanrith wrote: »

There was no knock on by Italy there. The French guy just kept smacking the ball.

This. French hands all over the ball. There was no knock on there at all. And Italy in possession inside the French 22 that's a particularly big mistake.

ThisRegard

OldRio wrote: »

40 mins of my life wasted.
Muck.

Olympic figure skating is on BBC2 if you're looking for a bit of excitement.

The guys on BBC are as bored.

Fireball07

It wasn't a great game but it was entertaining imo.

Kanrith

I wonder what France have doing in training, there is no structure and they are just waiting for gifts from Italy.

SnotserAhYeah

hard to decide which game is worse this one or eng v scot

trackguy

Looking at this game, it would appear that Ireland & England are the best coached teams in the tournament. France are incredibly dull given their talent. England are fairly dull too but at least they appear to be organised.

Hopefully, Schmidt will produce another tactical masterclass in 2 weeks time and then we're in business.

The possibility of a grand slam game in Paris is mouth-watering.

Not that I'm getting ahead of myself or anything....

Tox56

Some really good, inventive rugby being played..

On setanta at the moment between Belvedere and Clongowes that is

Fireball07

Wow... complete turnaround in the scrum, serious power from France that time.

Fireball07

Looked like a try to me.

Lapin

Try.

awec

That's that then.

Kanrith

Ah... come on Italy.

thomond2006

Super try from Fofana.

trackguy

Magic from Wesley

Fireball07

Superb try- Fofana is class.

SnotserAhYeah

that was weak

P_1

Hopefully France don't run up a serious score here

Swiwi.

Lads, who is Nugents co-commentator here?

P_1

Swiwi. wrote: »

Lads, who is Nugents co-commentator here?

Bernard Jackman

Chabals Beard

YES! Had Picamoles and Forfana in my fantasy team

Journeyman_1

Swiwi. wrote: »

Lads, who is Nugents co-commentator here?

Bernard jackman

Fireball07

Hopefully Italy fight back... last thing we want is France getting really confident.

awec

Chabals Beard wrote: »

YES! Had Picamoles and Forfana in my fantasy team

Same.

trackguy

Not convinced by Plisson yet.

The last 5 minutes have shown what will happen to any team against France if they get quick ball. On yesterday's evidence we can slow them down though.

Fireball07

Is Benvenuti injured or dropped?

Fireball07

Shít

trackguy

Jebus.

France have come alive.

ssaye2

jaysus

quality

Lapin

Cracking try there.

thomond2006

Poor Italy but sensational from Fofana and Huget!

Swiwi.

Scoreline so flattering for France. Ireland should have nothing to fear. Could turn into a cricket score though...and France might hit top of the table.

wp_rathead

Ugggggghhhhh
Great try but need keep scoreboard down

Chabals Beard

awec wrote: »

Same.

I was screaming for Forfana to go himself there :P

Lapin

Swiwi. wrote: »

Scoreline so flattering for France. Ireland should have nothing to fear. Could turn into a cricket score though...and France might hit top of the table.

The more I see of Forfana, the less I'm inclined to agree with that.

corny

All three tries have come from bad Italian errors. Well finished mind you, but errors none the less.

Let them paper over the cracks.....for now.

fitz

Swiwi. wrote: »

Scoreline so flattering for France. Ireland should have nothing to fear. Could turn into a cricket score though...and France might hit top of the table.

Totally agree. Couple of moments of magic putting France well ahead, but they've never really looked like they're in control of the game to the extent the scoreline suggests.
Would really be confident that Joe can come up with a plan to crack them.

Swiwi.

Lapin wrote: »

The more I see of Forfana, the less I'm inclined to agree with that.

Ah, we all know Fofana is good. But Schmidt can work out a way to nullify him. They just look poorly poorly coached.

stephen_n

Azzurri

Very frustrating watching Italy, can only imagine what it's like for their fans.

.ak

Yeah. At times Italy have been the better team, but Jesus all they need to do is hang onto the ball and it'd only be a six point game or there abouts.

MJohnston

stephen_n wrote: »

Very frustrating watching Italy, can only imagine what it's like for their fans.

Honestly at least they have passion in their play, couldn't be as bad as being a Scot yesterday really.

.ak

Couple of consolation tries would be wonderful for us.

Swiwi.

P_1 wrote: »

Bernard Jackman

Well he's tremenjus. Adds to the commentary IMO.

Kanrith

Try, I think.

Edit: Actually no, don't think so.

molloyjh

Kanrith wrote: »

Try, I think.

Not grounded IMO

Podge_irl

Unless he had his own hand holding that up then its a try

Stev_o

Held up by himself, well played...

P_1

That rather sums up the Italian perfoemance

Podge_irl

Hmm...don't think it could be given on the basis of the video but I'd be surprised if the base of the ball wasn't grounded tbh.