Wales v France

sparky

"Marchand continues his march to the line"

Route one from France for try number 5. It's the French hooker's 50th Test apparently and he celebrates it with a meat pie.

Victor Meldrew

Could get seriously ugly for Wales.

sparky

France really are some side these days. Threats all over pitch and they play with both structure and flair.

Far too good for poor Wales.

Victor Meldrew

Glorious try for France.

sparky

@Victor-Meldrew said in Wales v France:

Glorious try for France.

Which one of us is watching on delay?

sparky

Attisogbe scores his second try from a cross kick after his opposite wing goes missing in action.

Great execution by Jalibert, but far too soft.

sparky

And it's another. It's over 50.

If it was a boxing match, the ref would have stopped the contest.

And there's 18 minutes to go.

sparky

I'm losing patience with Jonathan Davies.

sparky

Are the Welsh crowd taking part in a sponsored silence?

sparky

Apparently today's attendance is 57,744.

It's the lowest ever Six Nations crowd in Cardiff, fewer than the previous smallest crowd of 58,349 against Italy in 2002.

sparky

Matthieu Jalibert wins Man of the Match. Correct call.

sparky

Grady gets a consolation try and gives the crowd something to cheer for at the end.

12-54 with two minutes to go.

sparky

All over.

France march on. They are some side at the moment.

Wales showed a bit of backbone and defiance there, but their lack of skills against a team that has them in abundance really limits them.

Steven Harris

Wales did well to limit the damage given what the score was with 20 minutes to go
When you miss over 30 tackles and kick ball away even right at the death the welsh 9 kicks the ball away
France for too good but I did like some of the welsh ball movement when they held the ball for periods

sparky

Alex Mann at 7 was the pick of the Welsh players. He's a keeper.

Eddie James had some good moments too.

sparky

France achieved a whooping 28 line breaks. Probably should have finished better and used LB-B more.

sparky

Sonja "What's morale like? It must be difficult in that red jersey now."

This interview is another disaster.

pooler fan

France were playing a different game to Wales for most of that.
Ridiculous pace and skills.
We battled hard but are miles away from where we should be.
It's going to be an awfully long road back (if we ever get there), I'm not hopeful of things getting better anytime soon.

Jailbreak7

@sparky I was just wondering what we would be like against France I doubt we would be making many linebreaks just at the minute....or how we would go against Wales even..

sparky

@Jailbreak7 French forward have more skills than ours at the minute. And we don't have a 10 as good as Jalibert and there's not a wing in New Zealand nearly as dangerous at Test level as LBB.

But elsewhere the ABs would be competitive.

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Wales v France