France v Australia -

[antipodean]

Thank christ the AR was corrected there. That would've been a travesty.

[antipodean]

That's a great try by Oz.

[MiketheSnow]

Best game I’ve seen Skelton play in G&G

Here we go Aus

Great use of the short side

Great kick

McRight Express under the sticks

Fra 26-12 Aus
62 mins

[MiketheSnow]

Great riposte from France

Fra 31-12 Aus
64 mins

[MiketheSnow]

France taken the handbrake off

[antipodean]

@MiketheSnow said in France v Australia -:

Great riposte from France

Fra 31-12 Aus
64 mins

Dante and Fickou do well to get over the advantage line and provide quick ball.

[MiketheSnow]

@antipodean said in France v Australia -:

@MiketheSnow said in France v Australia -:

Great riposte from France

Fra 31-12 Aus
64 mins

Dante and Fickou do well to get over the advantage line and provide quick ball.

In different ways

Best midfield in world rugby

[MiketheSnow]

France with the expected win

But in a month’s time Aus will be tough to beat

[MiketheSnow]

Eddie had a really good game plan to compete with and really challenge France

Accuracy has killed Australia’s chances

[MiketheSnow]

Fabulous from Penaud

But once again off unforced errors from Aus

Fra 38-12 Aus
75 mins

[MiketheSnow]

Great try

He deserved that

Been dangerous all match

Fra 38-17 Aus
77 mins

[antipodean]

Discipline for the Aussies will be key to not keeping teams in the hunt that they should easily beat.

[MiketheSnow]

And that’s it

Fra 41-17 Aus
Full time

Highly entertaining but Australia made France look far better than the score line suggests

[taniwharugby]

@MiketheSnow something theybhave done alot this year

[Daffy Jaffy]

[NTA]

@MiketheSnow said in France v Australia -:

Accuracy has killed Australia’s chances

The players we have come from a shallow system, so little things aren't punished.

[ARHS]

France too efficient. Poor Aussie goalkicking. The commentator really grated me with his inaccuracy and constant references to stuff irrelevant to the match we were watching.
Did not like the way the officials ran this match. Tmo involved too much. They seemed desperate to find a way to rule out Vunivalu try. It worries me how much crowd reactions and player gamesmanship and histrionics will impact on results.

[game_film]

Only saw the 10 min highlights but caught a couple glimpses of Aussies putting a body on Dupont at every opportunity, even to make him one step slower.

Would love to see a team run a tag on him to see how it played out. When he got to the breakdown they could just step onside. Crazy, I know.

[Bovidae]

@Tordah said in France v Australia -:

Irish comm gets both Aussie wings wrong all the time, "Nawaqinitawase" or some variation of that that's way worse and "Vulivulivalu"

I was going to post that I hope we aren't subjected to that Paddy commentator during the RWC. He's always been annoying, and seemed to want to talk about the NZ-SA game more than the game in front of him.

The other guy was calling Gordon McDermott all game.

[Bovidae]

My problem with the refs, ARs and TMO is that they still ignore/miss such obvious things. Take the eventual penalty against Kellaway for that high tackle on Villiere. Before the TMO got involved there was a likely knock-on by Villiere, who then tried to stop Petaia scoring while on the ground. And the AR is standing right there!

As to the game, Ramos and Villiere are poor defenders so I hope Foster and Schmidt have a game plan to attack that flank. The French scrum doesn't look so great without Baille.