The Rugby Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

Oh deep joy. Eddie Butler on comms. He is awful.

 

[darlowolf64]

France looking REALLY good

 

[jd1981]

England have been equally atrocious.

 

[jd1981]

Fur bank is having a horrid debut so far 2 knock ons already.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Good Lord Almighty. I wasn't expecting this at all.

You have so much work to do here.

 

[jd1981]

England have no chance at the moment so many errors and players below par. Some absolute stupidity as well from Sinkler there at the line out.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Yes - Owens clearly told them all, gave them all a second chance. And still he did something stupid.

And now Itoje does something dense. England are garbage so far, what the hell is going on?

 

[jd1981]

Look like they’ve all just met up for a game of touch rugby in the park. Three times England have been within metres of the French line and butchered it or gone backwards.

 

[Tredman]

Always going to take a while to recover from the WC final.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Much better at the start of the second half. We were similarly down in Paris at half-time last year. That turned out alright.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

You CANNOT keep butchering chances like this. When we were down in Paris last year we had a great first ten minutes of the second half and got points on the board. You have had a great ten minutes and have nothing to show for it.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

FIGHT!!!!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

24-0 and probably England are lucky to still have 15 on the field.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Very nice work by Johnny May and that is at least 7 off the deficit.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

WHAT A TRY BY MAY.

Now England have hope. There is still time.

 

[Paul]

I'm going to sit in the dark for a bit and not cry

 

[darlowolf64]

England weren't great but France put a lot of pressure on them

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The last second Farrell penalty is a huge moment. Losing bonus point could be helpful for you.

France looked a lot better than I expected. England were horribly flat.

 

[sycophantia]

Simple really, too many basic errors both in defence and with ball in hand.
France were good but not that good

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Not too often I comment on the 13 man game here, but I am watching a belter of a Hull derby and Hull KR have just scored an absolutely brilliant try. Come on you Robins.