RWC '15: Pool D General Chat [FRA/IRE/ITA/CAN/ROM]

nc6000

That wasn't a try.

efb

Double movement or triple movement???

LuckyGent88

Good finish but poor enough tackling on the outside after defending quite well around the fringes.

cml387

No double movement,looked ok.

rrpc

France go the wrong side and still manage to score.

nc6000

Between the 4 defenders they should really have stopped him.

Akrasia

Last pass looked forward too

molloyjh

This is a dreadful game. France will get the TBP, but there won't be much to celebrate about. They've been pretty damn poor.

efb

It was place- rehold- place

Stheno

efb wrote: »

Double movement or triple movement???

I thought you could'nt get a try if you ground it before the line and then stretch out and ground again?

Am I confused?

awec

efb wrote: »

It was place- rehold- place

Nah, he fell on it and then reached forward. All legal.

Buer

It was dubious. He went to ground with the ball. Then he shifted it forward on the deck, still in the crook of his arm. After that he reached out to get it over the line.

The initial movement on the deck could constitute his placing of the ball (which he's entitled to do but only once as part of the act of scoring) and the reaching out the double movement which is not legal.

efb

There's the bonus

molloyjh

Knock on ignored by Peyper there. He was looking right at it.

Stheno

That's the four!

LuckyGent88

And there is the bonus point.

CurryFlavoured

Fofanaaaaa is on my fantasy team.

awec

About time one of my fantasy team scored.

cml387

And there's the BP.

But I doubt it'll make that much difference in the group.

molloyjh

Stheno wrote: »

I thought you could'nt get a try if you ground it before the line and then stretch out and ground again?

Am I confused?

You're allowed to place the ball once even after hitting the ground. He hit the ground and then placed the ball to score. All legal.

rrpc

So long as you don't reposition your body and just reach it forward it's good.

Buer

I see Fofana has learned to hang onto the ball after it comes down on his own bicep.

molloyjh

rrpc wrote: »

So long as you don't reposition your body and just reach it forward it's good.

You can reposition your body as long as you're not trying to ground the ball. Basically once you hit the ground you have one chance to ground the ball on or beyond the line.

rrpc

Romania get a turnover and immediately kick it back to the French.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Love Rory Kockott after he celebrated France losing by 20 points and stopped England winning the 6 Nations

Stheno

Try Romania, nice move

efb

Romania try 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴

rrpc

Very clever maul there. Well done Romania:D

efb

rrpc wrote: »

So long as you don't reposition your body and just reach it forward it's good.

He did look like his body shifted...

cml387

Well done Romania, Overall they deserved a try at least out of this.

Buer

rrpc wrote: »

So long as you don't reposition your body and just reach it forward it's good.

Body position isn't a factor. It's dependent on him reaching out immediately to place the ball. He gets one go at it.

Podge_irl

I think it was fairly borderline. I think he "placed" the ball twice so no try but not surprised to see it go either way.

nc6000

Why are they checking this? The player himself knows it wasn't a try.

Greyian

Did the TMO really need to view that from multiple angles in slow motion to see the knock-on?

Irish_rat

How bad are France tonight?

efb

Buer wrote: »

Body position isn't a factor. It's dependent on him reaching out immediately to place the ball. He gets one go at it.

He def seemed to reposition it

Stheno

nc6000 wrote: »

Why are they checking this? The player himself knows it wasn't a try.

It's Peyper

Irish_rat wrote: »

How bad are France tonight?

Desperate.

They'll up their game before we face them

cml387

Irish_rat wrote: »

How bad are France tonight?

They won, with their second team basically. It wasn't pretty. It says absolutely nothing about how they'll play against us.

efb

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

Fofanaaaaa is on my fantasy team.

MOTM

nc6000

France are always good against us. Doesn't matter how bad they have been playing we always struggle against them.

efb

5 tries

efb

All home nations have BP win, now France too

cml387

Little training ground exercise there.

nc6000

Hey Fickou you just scored a try. No need to look like your dog got run over.

rrpc

That in goal area is tiny. Do they really need that much dead area behind it?

molloyjh

10 handling errors from France.

Romania are physical and dogged, but ultimately they aren't very good. We should be looking to open them up regularly and build a bigger points difference than this French side have done. Lock out the scrum, secure our line-outs and we should be fine.

scott1974

nc6000 wrote: »

Hey Fickou you just scored a try. No need to look like your dog got run over.

Probably because he was awful all night...

cml387

rrpc wrote: »

That in goal area is tiny. Do they really need that much dead area behind it?

It's the Olympic Stadium. It wasn't designed with rugby in mind.

MikeCork2009

cml387 wrote: »

It's the Olympic Stadium. It wasn't designed with rugby in mind.

Are there regulations for the minimum/maximum size of the in goal area?

cml387

molloyjh wrote: »

10 handling errors from France.

Romania are physical and dogged, but ultimately they aren't very good. We should be looking to open them up regularly and build a bigger points difference than this French side have done. Lock out the scrum, secure our line-outs and we should be fine.

The computations are irrelevant. Whoever loses in the France Ireland game will be second. End of.