RWC Week 5: France v Italy

[mooshld]

Hahah he just did for the first time! But against Italy.

[MiketheSnow]

@mooshld said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

This ref has never once called tackle release when the players knee touched the ground it's like he totally forgot that's a thing.

Must have heard you

[Victor Meldrew]

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

Commentators are embarrassing themselves

Sounding like teenagers who've found their dad's porn stash

[NTA]

Just watched the first half.

Marius Jonker is single handedly determined to ruin Rugby

[mooshld]

@NTA said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

Just watched the first half.

Marius Jonker is single handedly determined to ruin Rugby

He doesn't stop at half time.

[MiketheSnow]

Great try

[Victor Meldrew]

Italy fightback has started.

[Victor Meldrew]

Can someone do something technical with the female commentators voice? As grating as chalk on a blackboard

[Steven Harris]

You have got to wonder after 18 years in the 6 Nations why the Italians have not improved, I reckon if you stuck Tonga ,Samoa and Fiji in that same comp they would be much more of a threat

[MiketheSnow]

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

Can someone do something technical with the female commentators voice? As grating as chalk on a blackboard

Ask Kevin Keegan

[mooshld]

I read somewhere that Italy decided not to even review the game against the all blacks.

In hindsight that may have been a bad idea. A review might have helped them avoid playing exactly the same clueless rugby two weeks running.

[Victor Meldrew]

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

Can someone do something technical with the female commentators voice? As grating as chalk on a blackboard

Ask Kevin Keegan

Yeah but she's pretty good, just the voice is annoying.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Steven-Harris said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

You have got to wonder after 18 years in the 6 Nations why the Italians have not improved, I reckon if you stuck Tonga ,Samoa and Fiji in that same comp they would be much more of a threat

TBF, they've been pretty good these last 2 6N's

[Victor Meldrew]

How is that not a card?

Genuine question

[MiketheSnow]

Fuck off you biased bitch

He wasn’t lucky

It was a textbook tackle

[MiketheSnow]

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

How is that not a card?

Genuine question

On who?

[taniwharugby]

@mooshld Crowley said that in an interview, although with a wry smile, so who knows if he did or not

[Victor Meldrew]

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 5: France v Italy:

How is that not a card?

Genuine question

On who?

Jelonch on the Italian 23. Shoulder went up on his jaw from what I saw.

[stodders]

@Victor-Meldrew TMO stopped looking for issues as soon as France were out of sight

[stodders]

I cannot get over the amount of illegal crap the French get away with. More offside than SA, taking tacklers out off the ball and beyond the ruck like Ireland and NZ, more flopping over rucks than anyone out there.

And my pet peeve is when they put hands on the ball for a split second to slow the ball down at the breakdown, then raise their hands to say “not guilty”. I just don’t get how they don’t get penalised more.

In saying that, they have some fantastic, powerful rugby players and Jalibert is a gem of a fly half.