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)

[Shifty]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great work lads... thank you very much!!!!

[trebellbobaggins]

Farrell has been

Well played England.

France, just not that good.

[eirebilly]

Massively impressed with SL and what he has done with this England time. Absolutely deserved win

[wales606]

And Wales (pretty much) win the Six Nations!

[Morgannwg]

England get three away wins then maes. Credit to the England team and Stu where credit is due. Well done guys. Super is the exact word to describe next saturday.

[trebellbobaggins]

Well done Wales and bloody brilliant England.

[flynnnio]

roll on paddys day.

[Cari]

who's MOTM?

[Biltong]

Well you can't deny the fact that england deserves this victory.

There are still some issues, but their defence was very good once again.

And they scored some good tries as well.

[Shifty]

Classic game one of the best this season in the 6 Nations.

[Biltong]

who's MOTM?

Rolland

[PJHolybloke]

Congratulations to Wales the new 6N champions, all the best for the GS next week (it's OK to talk about it now isn't it?).

[aitchw]

Yes, yes yes. Brilliant win! So we can't score tries! Ha. Now somebody tell me this isn't progress.

[wales606]

who's MOTM?

Hari, have no idea why (french tv chose it)

Farrell for me, or perhaps Croft/Morgan

[Cari]

who's MOTM?

Rolland

No it was the other Frenchman - Hari Donkey.

[Liam]

Thats basically the 6 nations Wales' then. Takes the pressure off next week now and maybe Wales can really get revenge for the semi-final WC

[Chunky Norwich]

HairDonkey MOTM

[PJHolybloke]

who's MOTM?

Rolland

[Morgannwg]

Gotta be Farrell for MOTM, or Dickson or Morgan?

[Noble-Surfer]

Fantastic game of rugby! One of the more exciting games of the championship so far! Well played England, did enough to hold off France. Hopefully England can kick on from here.

[Cari]

Congratulations to Wales the new 6N champions, all the best for the GS next week (it's OK to talk about it now isn't it?).

NO!

[SubsBench]

As a neutral, I really enjoyed that game. Well done England.

[Morgannwg]

Imanol actually doh!

[trebellbobaggins]

Hairy donkey was great, damn near saved them.

[eirebilly]

Stuart Lancaster must get the England job full time now, he has done an amazing job. The spirit in that England team looks to be very good.

[Biltong]

I thought Croft had a good game.

[Cari]

Stuart Lancaster must get the England job full time now, he has done an amazing job. The spirit in that England team looks to be very good.

Agree. It'll be poor if he doesn't.

[ChequeredJersey]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[trebellbobaggins]

Brilliant to see what Lancaster has done with thee kids.

Sadly cannot see the beating Ireland, we never beat Ireland but they will have a go I reckon.

[Shifty]

ok question, how the hell can England not give the job to Lancaster now?

[Shifty]

Oh Jerry has just started to talk about it now, lol.

I was wondering if they would

[eirebilly]

Why is Guscott calling for Mallet now?

SL, has just seen his team win away in Paris!!!!!!

[trebellbobaggins]

It's not just how they play, it's the attitude he has given them too.

H is likeable and so are they now.

[Cymroglan]

Stuart Lancaster must get the England job full time now, he has done an amazing job. The spirit in that England team looks to be very good.

The Ireland game next week should be a good tester.

[thebluesmancometh]

Boys, best game of the 6N? Great game? In reality all 3 this weekend were snoozefests!!!

[Mad for Chelsea]

now all we need is France to smash Wales, us to beat Ireland and the 6N is ours

won't happen, but so so happy with the lads today

[eirebilly]

Gusset is such a negative git isnt he... Enjoy an excellent win in Paris you fool.

[Rory_Gallagher]

Harinordoquy deserved the MOTM in my opinion. He was literally one of the few french players who can hold their head high. Put his all into that game. I think Picamoles should have been starting over Bonnaire from the start though. He immediately had a huge impact for France.

[Cari]

Boys, best game of the 6N? Great game? In reality all 3 this weekend were snoozefests!!!

Seriously?! i thought the Ireland/Scotland match was a corker!

[Barney McGrew did it]

Can I just say that I thought Alain Rolland was brilliant.

[PJHolybloke]

Congratulations to Wales the new 6N champions, all the best for the GS next week (it's OK to talk about it now isn't it?).

NO!

Ooooops then...

[Liam]

Boys, best game of the 6N? Great game? In reality all 3 this weekend were snoozefests!!!

I'd probably say its pretty tight but I would still give it to Wales and Ireland, simply because for the second half, there was a large period of unforced errors and nothing much happening, but an enthralling encounter all the same

[mystiroakey]

alot of cracking close games this year. how anyone can call that a snoozefest i am not sure- but as a nervous englandfan it certainly wasnt

[thebluesmancometh]

Martyr

I agree exciting but great is a dumb call!!!

I just want to point out too that both Croft and Hairydonkey were garbage first half!!!

[Cymroglan]

Wales are on about +38 going into next weeks game.

[Biltong]

I enjoyed both the welsh vs Italy and Ireland vs scotland matches.

Rolland took so long to reset scrums, lineouts and penalty decisions that this was boring at stages.

[pbuk0]

Typical Jonathan Davies... about time he was put out to pasture... such an idiot.. he is as good a commentator as Rowland is a referee..

Great win for England..

[thebluesmancometh]

mystir

First half France were not there, 2nd half until the last 6/7 minutes nothing happened apart from a yellow card, and a penalty!

5 minutes of excitement does not make a great game!!

[overlordofthewest]

Well done England, deserved the win. France were absolutely awful though!

[Pot Hale]

Well done England. Well reffed by Rolland who was willing to make some hard calls for offences.

Good finish. Next week's final match should be a cracker in Twickenham - looking forward to it. England will likely go into it as slight favourites possibly with the bookies.

Stuart Lancaster seems to have them rolling nicely.

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