France vs England Sat 10 Mar 4:30

sydthebeat

Didactic Ninja wrote: »

England definitely encountered a better Scotland and a better France than Ireland did.

Not at all. Ireland better at pressurising Scotland into making mistakes.

And this France team are down at least 5 first teamers from the initial squad announcement.

Or again, maybe Ireland are just better than England.

cameramonkey

Didactic Ninja wrote: »

England definitely encountered a better Scotland and a better France than Ireland did.

That's right fred.

dublinman1990

1 try for England in the last 180 minutes according to Inverdale. Very stark statistic for them.

Beechwoodspark

MJohnston wrote: »

They've already missed an opportunity at a Grand Slam, only the championship left.

If England don't get 5 points today, odds on Eddie Jones throwing the toys out and fielding a weakened team next week?

Apologies I meant championship. EJ would be under severe pressure next week not to lose 3 on the bounce should They lose today

Beechwoodspark

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Not a chance - its payback time for them after Ireland denied England the slam last year, England will want to do that for Ireland

Let them at it. In joe we trust

rebel girl 15

Same issues that haunted England against Scotland are present here again - not cleaning out the ruck properly, not getting go forward ball over the gain line. France won three penalties for holding on, which was something that Scotland also did well.

I thought Jones might have been braver and drop Ford and put Farrell into 10 as against Scotland I didn't even realise he was playing

Beechwoodspark

I get the feeling France really want this

rebel girl 15

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Apologies I meant championship. EJ would be under severe pressure next week not to lose 3 on the bounce should They lose today

Leave them win today but not scoring four tries

Hang on, he's not a flanker??

mangobob

If I took a shot every time the TV3 commentator mentions that England need 4 tries I would be in A&E by now.

gooch2k9

Basta is so good to watch when he isn't giving Sexton whiplash!

rebel girl 15

Deleted User wrote: »

Hang on, he's not a flanker??

Bastareaud - nope, outside centre, beast of a man!

joseywhales

Didactic Ninja wrote: »

England definitely encountered a better Scotland and a better France than Ireland did.

Another lucky championship, I don't know how we keep doing it? 3 times in 5 years we've been lucky now. Thank goodness God is smiling down upon us with our terrible team.

kilns

England are actually a very overrated team they have no dynamism and are so reliant on Billy V when he is not there they struggle badly

C__MC

England havent' lost in twickenham since 2012, will be a massive next week regardless of todays result

rebel girl 15

Rucks again killing England - not enough bodies in the rucks.

Itoje is having a poor 6N in comparision to last year

Clegg

Scotland and now France have made a mess of the breakdown for England. Both these sides are good in this area but it's now pretty apparent that it's a genuine weakness of England's and it has been for a number of years.

Fann Linn

England giving away hapes of penalties. I'm sure Schmidt will target this weakness for next week.

kilns

England should be picking up a yellow card here

mangobob

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I get the feeling France really want this

Agreed

Penalty try surely

cameramonkey

Peanlty try, has to be.

Squidgy Black

Penalty try without a doubt.

Burkie1203

Poc talking out of his arse there. Pen try and card

fitz

Be lucky to only get away with a yellow here tbh

its_phil

Clearly someone bollocked Jaco out of it for that game in Paris two years ago

Squidgy Black

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Itoje could be off for 10 minutes - this is his second high tackle in the game

Watson. Wrong player.

Perfect. He's on my fantasy team but **** it, delighted.

GiftofGab

Harsh yellow

Peregrine

Should be YC and pen try.

MadYaker

LOL delighted for the brits

Dick phelan

Should be a penalty try

swiwi_

I know people give out about how shît France are but their defence is top class.

C__MC

Brian moore in tears on BBC, denying it was a penalty try

Beechwoodspark

Great. Cement it now France

fullstop

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Poc talking out of his arse there. Pen try and card

Yeah, how does it matter if he was in a position to make the tackle or not?! It's a high tackle when he's about to cross the try line with nobody else to stop him.

Squidgy Black

GiftofGab wrote: »

Harsh yellow

Far from it. High tackle around the neck as the players about to cross the try line. That couldn't be any clearer of a yellow card.

fitz

GiftofGab wrote: »

Harsh yellow

Forearm to the face? Not harsh at all, seen red given for that.

no.8

You shouldn't comment here. Makes little to no sense, that comment of yours

Clegg

C__MC wrote: »

Brian moore in tears on BBC, denying it was a penalty try

Tbf PoC didn't think it was a pen try either.

ScrubsfanChris

fitz wrote: »

Be lucky to only get away with a yellow here tbh

Cole should have seen yellow too on the ruck just before the kick, completely off his feet killing the ball

Penalty try is the correct call

Mushy

GiftofGab wrote: »

Harsh yellow

Really? Didn't even need multiple reviews

CIARAN_BOYLE

Penalty try nd yellow card. They have no hope in hell of pulling off a bonus point win.

dublinman1990

A YC for Watson & Penalty try for France. This 10 minute sin bin for England is going to deservedly f*ck them up.

Didactic Ninja

razorblunt wrote: »

Or you know.. Ireland just stopped them from being better?

nah.not having it

Somedaythefire

Clegg wrote: »

Tbf PoC didn't think it was a pen try either.

Was probably the clearest penalty try you could get. He's over at a canter if Watson doesn't go for his face and neck. Thought we'd see red, though probably a yellow was fair.

mangobob

Absolutely correct decision.

rebel girl 15

swiwi_ wrote: »

I know people give out about how shît France are but their defence is top class.

England's attack has been poor as well, France have a good defensive system, but England are limp in attack, very static, not protecting the ball when going forward, no creativity.

Subpopulus

Listening to Shane Byrne co-comentating is like listening to your opinionated and slightly jarred mate in the pub.

kilns

Is there anything better than seeing the French team on top and the crowd going nuts