France's Wales

[BFG]

I thought the French should've been further ahead at half time, much the better side.
The Welsh were very fortunate to escape a yellow card from a maul collapsed within a couple of metres of the line plus several offsides and lying on the wrong side of the ruck in my opinion.
Wales were little more than living off French errors, at least the French tried to play and personally I can see potential.
The pass from the young French lad which was intercepted by North was a shocker that just can't be accounted for, it was a complete momentum changer that France didn't have time to recover from.

[Scott1]

Yes BFG,Wales didn't worry me one bit,another French implosion! But Wales will be better at home,much better and I think France will give us hell next week before running out of steam in the last 10-15. That passage of play after a miracle high ball take from Fickou was utterly ridiculous!!!

[Soggypitch]

Yes BFG,Wales didn't worry me one bit,another French implosion! But Wales will be better at home,much better and I think France will give us hell next week before running out of steam in the last 10-15. That passage of play after a miracle high ball take from Fickou was utterly ridiculous!!!

Win or lose tonight, providing England play well, they will stuff the French next week IMO. Their confidence will be shot and England will either be keen to kick on from winning in Dublin, or keen to make amends from a defeat. Either way the French will be toast ( ) !!

[Scott1]

Let's hope you're right Soggy! They were surprisingly good last night though,some of their offloading out of contact was sublime in those conditions when compared to Wales numerous knock ins.

[Dangerous4]

Hats off to Wales, that was some comeback.

[ashleytiger]

Shows what a team can do when they stop dropping the ball ..... oh and have the opposition pass to them helps too

[loretta]

If only Ireland would be so accommodating tonight, not much chance of that, a much better game awaits......

It did and engage smug mode.

[fleabane]

That sums it up so far BD! As for Butler's pronunciation of Fofana...... Jeez!

His pronunciation was as close to the stadium presenters as you can get! Also pretty close to how the crowd at ASM pronounce it too.

[Robespierre]

Sadly, Marchand injured his knee at the very end of the match and is having it checked out at hospital today, but it's not looking good. France and particularly Toulouse, will miss him.

Is Chat fit?

Not sure, but a more than capable alternative to Marchand and Guirado.

Chat has indeed been called up for the Twickenham match!

[Scott1]

Chat was on holiday though haha,more amusement from the French to go with Vahamina not knowing he was captain Friday night at one stage!! Farcical!

[loretta]

The pass from the young French lad which was intercepted by North was a shocker that just can't be accounted for, it was a complete momentum changer that France didn't have time to recover from.

For what it's worth, even though the cameras at the time and consequently everyone else have blamed young Ntamack for that pass, it was actually Vamahina (please excuse spelling). Highlights available on Beeb to check. That probably accounts for it.

[Mark62]

The pass from the young French lad which was intercepted by North was a shocker that just can't be accounted for, it was a complete momentum changer that France didn't have time to recover from.

For what it's worth, even though the cameras at the time and consequently everyone else have blamed young Ntamack for that pass, it was actually Vamahina (please excuse spelling). Highlights available on Beeb to check. That probably accounts for it.

Absolutely right. But they were both wearing French shirts so you couldn’t expect Eddie Butler to spot the difference