6N 2019: France v Scotland

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Saturday 23rd Feb 2019
Stade de France
KO 14:15

France


Scotland


After two opening losses for France and a home loss for Scotland, both teams are looking to get their tournament back on track. Expect a response or implosion from France at home but also expect the same from Scotland.

This could be interesting.

miaow wrote:Personally, I'm expecting Scotland to win because France look deeply flawed.

They've looked pretty good first half - much better organised

Cut us to pieces, terrible

tigertattie wrote:Why are people sounding hopeful? All season we’ve been worse in the second half than the first. And if that pattern continues today then my god it will be an bad second half

Told ya

That was so so poor - Grigg completey switched off at the ruck, Kinghorn attempted tackle woeful

Yeah we're not going to win this game. Nice chip and gather from the French prop centre though

Gonna have to chase the game now, that rarely works well for us

Luckily Ramos left his kicking boots at home

Goal kicking today has been hopeless ...

not sure what is worst for Scotland the missed tackles or Bastareaud nice little chip... sorry !

Now Bradbury has caught the malaise - he should have lined picamoles up but shat it instead

Finesse from Basteraud. Now I've seen everything.

Stupid pen

Horne off for an assessment, not a bad thing

Hastings on

Good first touch from AH!

What the hell was that kick Hastings??

Our backs are utterly utterly hopeless

Dismal defence. Ponderous attack. France getting gifted this game.

2 v 1 Kinghorne and Seymour together and we don't take the kick

This is abysmal stuff

Lucky for Scotland that France keep fumbling the ball ...

the effort from Maitland to jump for that ball

Bradbury has been poor too - perhaps unsurprisingly doesn't look ready for this environment yet fitness wise

nathan wrote:the effort from Maitland to jump for that ball

Get him off for Graham - he's offering nothing

RDW wrote:2 v 1 Kinghorne and Seymour together and we don't take the kick

This is abysmal stuff

Was mainland. He was under the ball but was waiting for it to fall into his arms. No attempt to meet it.

Ironically it’s Grigg who has been the least poor of the backs today.

I like it how Laporte is getting booed every time he shows up on the big screen

RDW wrote:Bradbury has been poor too - perhaps unsurprisingly doesn't look ready for this environment yet fitness wise

Has anyone looked any good apart from Ritchie?

Ref telling the scrum half to use his foot to move the ball rather than hands: wasn't that rule changed to speed the game up?

France aren't committing any men to rucks just now - I think we need a few pick and goes to draw defenders in. Need to vary the game.

Living dangerously, but we need to chase the agme

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:

RDW wrote:Bradbury has been poor too - perhaps unsurprisingly doesn't look ready for this environment yet fitness wise

Has anyone looked any good apart from Ritchie?

Dell and Berghan playing well in the loose. Not so much at the scrum. Gilchrist playing ok.

Horne back on for Johnson

What the hell was that Hastings

Another missed chance

Where did that come from maitland??

Instant difference to the lineout with toolis

Why can't we hold the fecking ball?!

Maitland not finishing that neatly sums up Scotland's afternoon. Give the pass and Seymour scores in the corner.

France looking tired, but so are we

This backline would be half decent without Huget and Bastareaud...

Huget does a few brilliant things and a lot of crap.

Have we completely forgotten how to tackle??

lostinwales wrote:Huget does a few brilliant things and a lot of crap.

Bang on cue.... (great break total failure to get the ball away)

My god our back are awful today. Missing tackles. Not even being in the right places.

Wasted chance by Huget

That’s Huget in a nutshell

Huge defence

Great defensive set

What a tackle by Grigg, he has actually done well today

Fantastic defence. Keep this tight long enough and france will throw an intercept.

Here come the cavalry, all the subs at once

Holding out was key there - if they'd conceded then that would probably have been it ...

BigGee wrote:Great defensive set

What a tackle by Grigg, he has actually done well today

 I did feel they were lying g all over the ball at repeated breakdowns,.

And another fumble by France when on the attack ...