SIX NATIONS OPENING MATCH - France vs Wales Stade de France - 1st February 2019

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France: Maxime Medard; Damian Penaud, Wesley Fofana, Romain Ntamack, Yohann Huget; Camille Lopez, Morgan Parra; Jefferson Poirot, Guilhem Guirado, Uini Atonio; Sébastien Vahaamahina, Paul Willemse, Wenceslas Lauret, Arthur Itturia, Louis Picamoles.

Reps: Julien Marchand, Dany Priso, Demba Bamba, Felix Lambey, Gregory Alldritt, Baptiste Serin, Gael Fickou, Geoffrey Doumayrou.



Wales: Liam Williams; George North, Jonathan Davies, Hadleigh Parkes, Josh Adams; Gareth Anscombe, Tomos Williams; Rob Evans, Ken Owens, Tomas Francis; Adam Beard, Alun Wyn Jones; Josh Navidi, Justin Tipuric, Ross Moriarty.

Reps: Elliot Dee, Wyn Jones, Samson Lee, Cory Hill, Aaron Wainwright, Gareth Davies, Dan Biggar, Owen Watkin.

Simmer down, Jiffy. Christ.

A no arm tackle - ‘ah, get up’. Clear obstruction - ‘ohh it’s marginal’. What a clown.

Eejit wrote:Still think Hadleigh Parkes sounds like a caravan site in Dorset.

Haha

The Oracle wrote:They were so offside then!

Mr Barnes & co don't seem to be watching for offside much for either team it seems ...

This is a bit of a bonkers game. France were sublime like they were in the 90s for the first 20. It’s now gone a bit flat

I didn't realise rules were changed so that you could be in front of the kicker from the base of rucks and scrums. Or is Wayne Barnes just ignoring this

Class kick Biggar

Is anyone else disappointed in Biggar's kicking these days? It's not half as funny as it used to be ...

Maine man wrote:I didn't realise rules were changed so that you could be in front of the kicker from the base of rucks and scrums. Or is Wayne Barnes just ignoring this

Ignoring it - like most other offsides ...

Oh boy, Anscombe back on!

Does that mean it's a blood replacement then?

Heaf wrote:Does that mean it's a blood replacement then?

Yep.

Shouldn't be clapping a knock on.

Now France are knocking on with every chance they get ...

And the big pack has done nothing with the weight advantage ...

Oh now they get a penalty to make the point ... doh

I recall a Glasgow Ulster game years ago, I think it was two days before Scotland beat Ireland at Murrayfield in 2013 where Pete Horne missed one of them kicks in front of the post.

Stupid play to gift that intercept

My goodness!

Good lord that was awful. He launched that ball in the air. Absolutely deserved to be intercepted

And in true French style they throw a stupid pass to probably hand Wales the win ...

Do France not want to win?

By far the better team but two horrific errors have gifted Wales 14 points.

Oh france, never change.

RDW wrote:Oh france, never change.

Don't laugh. I guarantee we'll do the same thing tomorrow.

Hopefully the luck of the Irish has been used up by Wales tonight!

Gareth Davies was held back at that scrum!

French Bob Harley looks some player whoever he is.

Eejit wrote:French Bob Harley looks some player whoever he is.

I'd been thinking French Ron Weasley, he looked so gangly compared to Willemse but he's been way more effective!

Good comeback.

Well that was interesting .... I said Wales would probably come back but I didn't think France would be so accommodating ...

Wales did everything they could to lose that! France literally gifted us the game!

Really enjoyed that game. Errors everywhere but still really good to watch. Happy six nations gents.

Nasty looking injury to the French hooker at the end. Hope that's not serious.

George North man of the match? What a load of cack that is. He was shocking for the first 40. Tipuric MOTM all day.

Well I only caught the 2nd half but the French did create 2 tries out of nothing. I take it the 1st half was different but the same?!

Good comeback, but France utterly gifted 14 points. Entertaining game to start the Six Nations off.

Incredible and ridiculous game in equal measure.

Throwing the ball around in those conditions worked for France in the first half but played into Wales hands in the second.

What has happened to France? Jeebus.

Wales with about 1 million % improvement needed for the rest of the tournament.

It's a shame Jiffy isn't in some alternate universe where Wales lost, he's unbearable to listen to commentate on their games

Awful game. France are similar to Italy now. Ouch.

My god that was the most biased referee display I have ever seen.... Scrum feeds, off sides, taking players out before they were in the ruck, the entire Welsh team should go buy lotto tickets right now

Cyril wrote:What has happened to France? Jeebus.

No brains. Just can't understand that these players don't seem to know how to play modern rugby.... I mean France. Minds in and minds out and nobody seems to care.

BamBam wrote:It's a shame Jiffy isn't in some alternate universe where Wales lost, he's unbearable to listen to commentate on their games

I understand it's an emotive game and that's what you want to hear in commentators, but he's just plain unprofessional sometimes.

Eejit wrote:

BamBam wrote:It's a shame Jiffy isn't in some alternate universe where Wales lost, he's unbearable to listen to commentate on their games

I understand it's an emotive game and that's what you want to hear in commentators, but he's just plain unprofessional sometimes.

Your own national bias is blinding you - there’s no difference between him and Nicol.

Went with France Half Time/Wales Full Time and boy did France help me out, nearly perfect.

Wales allowed France to play it their way in the first half.  Now I'm not saying France didn't have a part in that.  But any coach that allows his players to think that Wales will just play it the same way in the second half being so far behind.... it's just shoddy coaching to let his players come out thinking they'd won the thing.

Congrats to Wales   .... being bloody Wales huh?  Who'd a thought?  Not the French.

Scottrf wrote:Went with France Half Time/Wales Full Time and boy did France help me out, nearly perfect.

So how much did you bung them

https://twitter.com/606v2R/status/1091453802669068289?s=19

Only a 5 but was 13/2.

The Oracle wrote:

Eejit wrote:

BamBam wrote:It's a shame Jiffy isn't in some alternate universe where Wales lost, he's unbearable to listen to commentate on their games

I understand it's an emotive game and that's what you want to hear in commentators, but he's just plain unprofessional sometimes.

Your own national bias is blinding you - there’s no difference between him and Nicol.

I agree that they're cut from the same cloth. No need to be unpleasant big man, we're all friends here.

Cyril wrote:What has happened to France? Jeebus.

Wales worked out that kicking it back to France to counter attack was a terrible idea. Starved France of the ball and with no jackler in the French side it was easy to build pressure.

Having said that Wales were shocking in attack. Clueless. Defence and a moment of magic from Adams rescued them.