Six Nations: France v England Thread

[Cymroglan]

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TEAM LINE-UPS
France : 15-Clement Poitrenaud, 14-Vincent Clerc, 13-Aurelien Rougerie, 12-Wesley Fofana, 11-Julien Malzieu, 10-Lionel Beauxis, 9-Julien Dupuy; 1-Jean-Baptiste Poux, 2-Dimitri Szarzewski, 3-Nicolas Mas, 4-Pascal Pape, 5-Yoann Maestri, 6-Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 7-Julien Bonnaire, 8-Imanol Harinordoquy.

Replacements: 16-William Servat, 17-Vincent Debaty, 18-Lionel Nallet, 19-Louis Picamoles, 20-Morgan Parra, 21-Francois Trinh-Duc, 22-Maxime Mermoz

England : 15-Ben Foden, 14-Chris Ashton, 13-Manu Tuilagi, 12-Brad Barritt, 11-Charlie Sharples, 10-Owen Farrell, 9-Lee Dickson; 1-Alex Corbisiero, 2-Dylan Hartley, 3-Dan Cole, 4-Mouritz Botha, 5-Geoff Parling, 6-Tom Croft, 7-Chris Robshaw, 8-Ben Morgan

Replacements: 16-Rob Webber, 17-Matt Stevens, 18-Tom Palmer, 19-Phil Dowson, 20-Ben Youngs, 21-Charlie Hodgson, 22-Mike Brown

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Alain Rolland (France)

Touch judges: Nigel Owens (Wales), John Lacey (Ireland)

TV: Jim Yuille (Scotland)

[wales606]

France will probably play properly next week :/

[mystiroakey]

mysti, you've matched your tournament overall try count in 20 minutes....

i know and i can see more an all !!

[eirebilly]

Brain Moore, i love you man

[Pot Hale]

England finding their feet and confidence to score at the wrong time for Ireland.

They have this in the bag. And Wales should win the championship easily enougxh.

Next week's match in Twickenham should be a cracker. Both teams going at it full tilt.

[Cari]

here we go...Moore getting his hair off at Roland after 24 minutes. And Brian, stop saying PENalised, it's PEEnalised isn't it?

[wales606]

I'm looking forward to the Moore and Butler show.

I can see Moore losing it with the ref after about...ooh 10 minutes?

20 actually.

[thebluesmancometh]

I love Moore!!

Perhaps he should do his job, bravo Brian bravo!!!

[Liam]

Rolland should have penalised France for the early push and England for standing up (Every scrum with Hartley in it stands up)

[Pot Hale]

here we go...Moore getting his hair off at Roland after 24 minutes. And Brian, stop saying PENalised, it's PEEnalised isn't it?

Well, do you award a PENalty or a PEEnalty?

I suppose it's a bit of a Penal question....

[Shifty]

Haha Rolland gets it wrong in 2 languages!

Great line from Brian Moore there.

[Cari]

ooh unlucky Farrell...

[eirebilly]

PSA has to make changes soon or England will be out of sight. What a great match by the boys in white so far.

[Liam]

Big miss

[wales606]

Wales have a PD of +44, England +4 - I hope England don't win by to much...just incase.

[mystiroakey]

i can let farrel of one or two- he has been kicking well- but that one was pretty easy!!

[thebluesmancometh]

The French are a mess in every aspect!!

Not taking anything from England theyre doing a good job but this might be the worst French performance Ive ever seen!

[Liam]

Wales have a PD of +44, England +4 - I hope England don't win by to much...just incase.

[Cari]

Big miss

Just unlucky rather than a miss I'd say...takes a bit of skill to get the posts or the crossbar.

[Liam]

England playing very well, France have been rank

[Cari]

They're waking up I feel....although Hari's down...

[eirebilly]

Is anyone else noticing that France are cutting Bauxis out in the majority of their attacks?

[mystiroakey]

how many turnovers!!!!

come on england get a grip on it!

[Liam]

Games wide open atm, suits England with the counter attack, look like scoring everytime on the counter

[wales606]

France are back

[eirebilly]

Stupid from Croft...

[mystiroakey]

great catch foden- what the heck is croft doing!!!

[thebluesmancometh]

Ashton you plonker!!

Dickson just gave him a good telling off for that!

[Chunky Norwich]

Croft really is one of the worst players in the current home nations squads. Terrible brain.

[Cari]

Is it legal to grab someone's nuts when you tackle them?

[wales606]

Croft - What a ponker

Still, a bit harsh by Rolland - He didn't throw a punch did he?

[Shifty]

Oooh a Melvin, Cari would of appreciated that!

[Liam]

ashton tut tut tut, short fuse and its costing England here, need all the points they can get. I said that miss was big from Farell, momentum has just swung the other way

[eirebilly]

Is it legal to grab someone's nuts when you tackle them?

Dont you do that

[Shifty]

Is it legal to grab someone's nuts when you tackle them?

Oh there you are, when I saw that I thought of you, lol!

[Pot Hale]

I suppose you could say that he went for man and ball at the same time.

[Casartelli]

Why is people blaming Croft??? Poor Crofty.

[Cari]

Is it legal to grab someone's nuts when you tackle them?

Dont you do that

I'm not tackling when I do it...

[wales606]

Croft - What a ponker

Still, a bit harsh by Rolland - He didn't throw a punch did he?

Or was it Ashton?

[Cari]

Oh here come the French...

[Liam]

Ashton

[Cymroglan]

Is it legal to grab someone's nuts when you tackle them?

Cari you cant play in mens matches so don't get any ideas about taking up the game.

[Morgannwg]

I don't think what Rougerie did was a penalty, so there should not have been a penalty reversal anyway.

[Cari]

Cymro - ha! It explains why some of them wear cycling shorts under their kit mind...imagine if you only had your Y fronts on under your shorts and someone did that...

[Liam]

I don't think what Rougerie did was a penalty, so there should not have been a penalty reversal anyway.

It was a mark I believe, then it was overturned because Ashton went ll Bergamasco on Rougerrie

[Cari]

I don't think what Rougerie did was a penalty, so there should not have been a penalty reversal anyway.

Tell that to Foden and he'll reply in a high pitched voice

[Pot Hale]

Is it legal to grab someone's nuts when you tackle them?

Dont you do that

I'm not tackling when I do it...

Tackle and nuts...... Oooer missus

[eirebilly]

Indiscipline starting to creep into the England game.

[eirebilly]

Mermoz on now, he is a very decent player Fofana to the wing

[Liam]

Fofana: overrated? IMO he is, he looks alright but nothing I haven't seen before

[wales606]

I don't think what Rougerie did was a penalty, so there should not have been a penalty reversal anyway.

It wasn't a penalty

Ref said it was a free kick from the mark.

Look like Clerc wont be playing next week.

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