RugbyRebels

Mr Mwenda wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:16 pm

Danno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:13 pm

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:09 pm

The Irish ones seem to get away with an awful lot of their dumb stuff. How they've only picked up the one card is mystifying.

PoM should have two for no arms, Doris doesn't seem to know which side of the ruck is the right one.

They are very good at what they do. When I saw Beirne go in on Dupont I thought immediately that everyone's favourite Frenchman was in trouble.

Charlatan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:17 pm POM should absolutely have been pinged twice. Also was a bit suspicious of how DuPont got injured as well tbh tho perhaps on the replay at half time it is accidental.

Mr Mwenda wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:16 pm

Danno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:13 pm

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:09 pm

The Irish ones seem to get away with an awful lot of their dumb stuff. How they've only picked up the one card is mystifying.

PoM should have two for no arms, Doris doesn't seem to know which side of the ruck is the right one.

They are very good at what they do. When I saw Beirne go in on Dupont I thought immediately that everyone's favourite Frenchman was in trouble.

Charlatan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:24 pm Great win for France. I was rooting for them anyway and not just because of the England-in-with-a-shout factor, I do like this French team, but the egregious Irish skullduggery (or how much they got away with it) in the first half really pissed me off. Good to see them win without DuPont too, I think Ntamack isn’t the showiest flyhalf but quietly makes that team tick better. And the 7:1 gamble just about paid off, when it really looked like it might go pear shaped!

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:46 pm France really just dominated physically. Ireland then struggled to get going and the French backs found chances to cut loose. A humbling day out for the Irish.

francoisfou wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:47 pm

Charlatan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:24 pm Great win for France. I was rooting for them anyway and not just because of the England-in-with-a-shout factor, I do like this French team, but the egregious Irish skullduggery (or how much they got away with it) in the first half really pissed me off. Good to see them win without DuPont too, I think Ntamack isn’t the showiest flyhalf but quietly makes that team tick better. And the 7:1 gamble just about paid off, when it really looked like it might go pear shaped!

A lot of us had been criticising Galthié for a 7:1 bench and when Dupont went off I feared the worst.

francoisfou wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:50 pm

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:46 pm France really just dominated physically. Ireland then struggled to get going and the French backs found chances to cut loose. A humbling day out for the Irish.

When was the last time we didn’t hear The Fields if Athenry at Landsdowne Road?

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:28 pm I was surprised that wasn't reviewed and Beirne in trouble. It's accidental but there's no wrap and no attempt to support his weight. No control just ploughs into the ruck.

Galfon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:31 am

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:28 pm I was surprised that wasn't reviewed and Beirne in trouble. It's accidental but there's no wrap and no attempt to support his weight. No control just ploughs into the ruck.

They're not happy, could be nasty.
His weight fell on AD's lower limb, with Porter behind too.
All very quick with Beirne looking the other way, which would make it less easy to attribute culpability.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c3w1525d951o
Hope he's back soon .

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 12:05 pm So what are people’s hopes/expectations for this game in terms of England really moving forwards? It’s always difficult when a close game is viewed as a failure and a comfortable win is viewed as a walkover.

I suppose I just want to see a performance that actually looks like it would trouble top teams, rather than just being able to beat up Italy. No clue what sort of Italy team are going to turn up though, to be honest.

It’s strange to end the tournament on these two games. I imagine Wales will look drastically different from yesterday, or at least the first half, and have their home crowd behind them. Let’s hope that is a real test.

Captainhaircut wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 12:21 pm

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 12:05 pm So what are people’s hopes/expectations for this game in terms of England really moving forwards? It’s always difficult when a close game is viewed as a failure and a comfortable win is viewed as a walkover.

I suppose I just want to see a performance that actually looks like it would trouble top teams, rather than just being able to beat up Italy. No clue what sort of Italy team are going to turn up though, to be honest.

It’s strange to end the tournament on these two games. I imagine Wales will look drastically different from yesterday, or at least the first half, and have their home crowd behind them. Let’s hope that is a real test.

Did we not trouble every top team we have played in the last 12 months?

p/d wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 12:54 pm I’m hoping for fewer aerial shots at key moments. Certainly no close ups of someone chucking up and hopefully an astute cameraman (sorry, person) will pick out a number of floral frocks

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 1:07 pm

p/d wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 12:54 pm I’m hoping for fewer aerial shots at key moments. Certainly no close ups of someone chucking up and hopefully an astute cameraman (sorry, person) will pick out a number of floral frocks

And at least three shots of a pretty young woman in the crowd; and two of people in fancy dress

francoisfou wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 1:27 pm 1. I’m hoping that Dingers impresses and persuades Shorn Bonce to give him a run of matches.
2. Ted Hill gets more than 69 seconds to show he should start at 6 in Cardiff!
3. A win of at least 30 points.