6 Nations - England v France

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Date: Sunday 10th February 2019
Time: 15:00 GMT
Location: Twickenham Stadium
Media Coverage: ITV, BBC (highlights only), Radio 5Live


Officials

Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant 1: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
Assistant 2: Brendon Pickerill (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)



Teams


England

15 Elliot Daly (Wasps, 26 caps), 14 Chris Ashton (Sale Sharks, 43 caps), 13 Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 18 caps), 12 Manu Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers, 28 caps), 11 Jonny May (Leicester Tigers, 41 caps), 10 Owen Farrell (Saracens, 66 caps) (c), 9 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 81 caps), 1 Mako Vunipola (Saracens, 52 caps), 2 Jamie George (Saracens, 33 caps), 3 Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins, 18 caps), 4 Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, 69 caps), 5 George Kruis (Saracens, 28 caps), 6 Mark Wilson (Newcastle Falcons, 9 caps), 7 Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 6 caps), 8 Billy Vunipola (Saracens, 37 caps).

16 Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 8 caps), 17 Ben Moon (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), 18 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 82 caps), 19 Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 54 caps), 20 Nathan Hughes (Wasps, 19 caps), 21 Dan Robson (Wasps, uncapped), 22 George Ford (Leicester Tigers, 52 caps), 23 Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs, 30 caps).





France

15. Yoann Huget
14. Damian Penaud
13. Mathieu Bastareaud
12. Geoffrey Doumayrou
11. Gaël Fickou
10. Camille Lopez
9. Morgan Parra
1. Jefferson Poirot
2. Guilhem Guirado
3. Demba Bamba
4. Sébastien Vahaamahina
5. Félix Lambey
6. Yacouba Camara
7. Arthur Iturria
8. Louis Picamoles

Replacements
16. Pierre Bourgarit
17. Dany Priso
18. Dorian Aldegheri
19. Paul Willemse
20. Gregory Alldritt
21. Antoine Dupont
22. Romain Ntamack
23. Thomas Ramos

Can you two give it a break or at least try and stick to one thread rather than polluting all, it's getting really tiresome.

Countdown is on.....I'm going for a 12pt win I think with us 4pts up at HT.

If the France of the first half against Wales turn up for the full 80 minutes at Twickers, it could be quite a close contest. If it's the French of the second half, it will be a resounding hammering.

Pleased with the attacking selection that Jones has made. I reckon England will land a bonus point win, despite the poor weather.

England 33 - 17 France

Hope you're right miaow but would be typical if France were to up their game ...

Bit soggy for my liking too ...

Oh wait, Nige is in charge.

England 44-23 France

I think England will show why there is a ~10 point rating gap.

Even parking the Ireland game for a minute, England beat Australia 37-18 last time out at Twickenham. No reason we shouldn't be targeting a similar points total today.

Here we go.

Hahaha. There's England's try in the first 2 minutes - not sure this one was planned in training though!

There are quick starts, there are fast starts, and there are English starts. Magnificent. Ruthless punishing of the French error.

That’s a lovely kick and May on the wing is hard to beat to it...

miaow wrote:Oh wait, Nige is in charge.

England 44-23 France

But Nige doesn't like England ... or is it just that he likes Ireland

Well well well. England score early again!

This one less by design then last week. Great counter attacking try though.

I’ll take it but how was that advantage over?

Was a scrum advantage for accidental offside ...

Nice to see Nige actually reffing the breakdown. Eng and Ire have been exponents of the 'bind to the body and pretend you're on the ball' approach for a few years now - often winning penalties with it.

This game has points all over it. 5-6 tries England, 3 for France.

What heaf said, it wasn't a penalty advantage.

Most outside centres eyes light up when they're confronted with two props defending together. Bastareuad just crashed the ball into Sinckler and Vunipola and got tackled behind the gain line. Shows his limitation.

Ben Kay and Ugo Monye rivalling Jiffy in the butchering players' names stakes. Guirado and now Fickou already...

Bamba just penalised for what Itoje did to Earls last week. Overrunning the kick, pretending to compete but just blocking Daly.

Never noticed it before, definitely never seen it pinged. But now twice in two weeks.

flat my arse

Do love watching France. Looks a bit like a rickety cart slaloming far too quickly around a windy roadthat could collapse at any time - but that's why it looks so good.

I wouldn't keep kicking to that French winger..he looks dangerous.

Agreed GF!

Owen sounds out of breath already

Was just about to say that Penaud is looking good for France ...

Johnny May


What a player he is now

No doubts about that

Was just about to say that Penaud is looking good for France ...

England look ruthless. Sniff of a chance and then they really up the pace.

Thought that was a bad call, Jonny made it good!

Fantastic attacking performance so far.

Clinical by England. Got into the 22, good lineout, good phases and then Jonny May. Not much more to say about him.

Thought that was a bad call, Jonny made it good!

Jonny May is such a lethal finisher. An inch or two of space and he'll take it.

Wonderful stuff from England

Johnny may!!

France just flat out refusing the defend their backfield.

May day..

I’ve always believed in Jonny May

Such a bad error from Parra, then the French just ball watch. Another dink in behind and May finishes it off. Vintage stuff. Reminds me of when England shredded France in 2009.

Though the high ball was a mistake but even that turned out OK

This side would batter our GS winning team

Can you imagine what the French dressing room will be like at half-time? Surely, after years of being humiliated, they'd get sick of it and actually look competitive.

Instead, it's like they think 60% of the game is optional/not important. So they don't bother with it.

Bonus point before half-time here for England.

England know that if they create chances they have a player who is consistently going to finish them ....that's also something for the opposition to be aware of.

Classic France...

All the talk of Johnny...but that French winger who's just scored has impressed alot

Good try France

Huget being Huget there. From invisible to breaking three tackles and creating a try.

Phew ...

king_carlos wrote:Huget being Huget there. From invisible to breaking three tackles and creating a try.

And back to invisible