France vs Canada Match Thread

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Might be an interesting game with all the rain.

Will the Canadian player who looks like Alan from the Hangover fall over if his beard gets to wet and heavy?

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After Tonga loss to canada, France are almost qualified now. On this basis no point of playing a 2nd string team (or rather experimental one) against NZ.
let's face it, it was a poor performance , the BP was taken thanks to the 2 extra days of rest.
some players were good: picamoles, bonnaire, parra, clerc and the front 3.
some were useless: rougerie (at wing), marty (he has to go), ouedrago and of course Trinh-duc.
I am wondering who should start against NZ but since our centres are poor , we need a powerful 8 (Picamoles) and bonnaire has been much better than harinordoquy so should start as well. for the rest there is not many choices anyway.
then remains the question of who would start at 10?

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As an England fan I'm not fearing this French side at all.

Havent seen anything from England (yet) that scares the sh*t out of me either
the referee will probably decide who goes through!

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Judging by the Japan and Canada games, France seem to find their form later in the matches. They can't afford to do that against the All Blacks.

Not necessarily, seems that's the way they like to do it against the ABs, they were losing 3-13 at HT to finish 20-18 in '07, and '99 saw them come back from 10-24 to 44-31.

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