The Silver Fern

Thank god that’s over.

The brutal truth on this is that it all depends on how Tizzano sold it. If he dives back with his hands raised. 50/50. If he keels over onto the floor and lays still, physio comes on ..100% Wallabies win.

@NTA An admission that they weren’t fit. But they had to play.

6-2 split wasn’t tactical. It was an admission.

@booboo Yeah, not often you get the ball in that situation in broken play and someone is on you. Well done TC

Kick was bad. Kicking was worse

@mariner4life he’s not fooling anyone

Itoje. Then. Now. Forever. A complete prick

@sparky By 2037 even Wales will have beaten France a few times.

They may not realise it, but in the long term, everyone involved in this game from Andy Farrell all the way down to the waiter and waitress in the corporate hospitality box need the Wallabies to win. Everyone needs the Wallabies to win.

@Kirwan Ben O’Thief. First time I’ve heard that. Beauty

We was robbed that the Frogs didn’t bring a lunch and - given the ABs injuries - could have been talking about a 3-0 sweep.

Instead we’re talking about varying degrees of depth that won’t matter one bit come the business end of any RWC.

And I hate to mention the RWC 2 years out but when a series is approached like that and becomes meaningless, what else can you do?

Could have lit up world rugby with a Dupont vs Cam best of 3. Instead we’re talking about Harry Wilson kicking the ball out.

@booboo Agreed. Classic case of thinking it was close but it never really was across games 1 and 3.

Not a fan of any more rotation talk. Given the number of injuries, a lot of guys have got game time… and have generally done quite well. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

Just put the best team out there, whatever Surfboard Jesus thinks that is, and pretend it’s a RWC quarter final.

They can’t give the frogs a reason to not be anything but absolutely miserable on the flight home.

I felt like I’ve seen that first half before. And I felt like I’ve seen that second half before.

@brodean Worst part about that tackle was the couple of seconds he spent in self pity immediately after while laying on the turf. Get up, get back, go again.

Only 34. But never struck me as a gym rat.

@MN5 Apologies, I missed the first 8 seconds.

Don’t change a thing 1-23. Only thing that does need to be changed is decision making and ball security after a line break.

Farrell being on tour only makes Sexton’s inclusion look worse. What the hell is he going to say during the week that the actual playing fly halves or coaching team aren’t?