QF3 - Match Thread - Wales v France - 20/10/19 - K/O 8:15 BST

[Guest]

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Thought I'd get these made nice and early for a few reasons - but one being that we're already now looking ahead to the QFs with several teams having finished their group stage, so it's all heating up for the proper knockout stuff...barring any more disruption.

Wales



Team:Liam Williams; George North, Jonathan Davies, Hadleigh Parkes, Josh Adams; Dan Biggar, Gareth Davies; Wyn Jones, Ken Owens, Tomas Francis; Jake Ball, Alun Wyn Jones; Aaron Wainwright, Justin Tipuric, Josh Navidi.


Reps: Elliot Dee, Rhys Carre, Dillon Lewis, Adam Beard, Ross Moriarty, Tomos Williams, Rhys Patchell, Owen Watkin


France



Team: Medard - Penaud, Vakatawa, Fickou, Huget - Ntamack, Du pont - Ollivon , Alldrit, Lauret -
Vaahamahina, Leroux - Slimani, Guirado (c), Poirot
Bench: Cat, Braille,Sentiano, Gabrillagues, Picamoles, Serin, Lopez, Rattez



Venue: Oita
Referee: Jaco Peyper
AR1: Nic Berry
AR2: Paul Williams
TMO: Marius Joncker

[Heaf]

Hard to see Wales as serious contenders off the back of this display even if the win looks inevitable.
SA NZ final ?

We'll never hear the end of it from TM ...

[RiscaGame]

Wales aren’t winning this. Look way too frantic. North was so stupid.

[Heaf]

Wales are certainly making hard work of this ....

[Guest]

Have we ever played worse?!

[lostinwales]

What a hand off

[majesticimperialman]

Is it me or does AWJ look dead on his feet?

[Heaf]

Saved by another poor decision from France

[alfie]

Wales making heavy weather of this. Man advantage and you'd think they'd have made it count by now...but too impatient.
Still plenty of time but they wouldn't want to let France score again...

Game of mistakes all round.

[Guest]

Just let France through. I’d be embarrassed about this shower of sh*t going though to a semi.

[Geordie]

What a poor advert for 6n rugby...

[mikey_dragon]

Shocking.

[Heaf]

Are France going to scrum without an 8 again - cost them a great attacking position down the other end that could have been the match ...

[mikey_dragon]

They’re checking it.

[Gooseberry]

Indeed Heaf but tbf he was right about NZ. They looked every bit as good as the teams from the past two world cups. Ireland and Wales haven't really fronted up at their best, England are the only NH team who look the part but honestly Ibcant see them beating the All Blacks unless they can do something about the glaring wekanesses. It's been flatvtrack for them so far thanks to Australias awful decision making.


Oh theres the inevitable Welsh try to save their blushes.

[BigGee]

Wales score a somewhat fortunate try

or maybe

[mikey_dragon]

Didn’t go forward for me but i would say that!

[BigGee]

That looked marginally forward

[formerly known as Sam]

Well that's clearly forward.

[mikey_dragon]

France to get a drop goal and win!

[Dolphin Ziggler]

It’s gone forward. Been handed this

[Gooseberry]

Margin call in the end ...but France have one player to blame for this.

[majesticimperialman]

Very lucky, very lucky indeed.

[BigGee]

Ref says try

That should be the game for Wales

[mikey_dragon]

Oh here come the forward pass experts. Where have the offside experts been?

[alfie]

Close call for the TMO ...but it is a try and Wales are in front !

Five minutes...

[Geordie]

Clearly went forward....lucky Wales

[Heaf]

Looked a bit forwards to me when looking at the 5m line ...

[Heaf]

Indeed Heaf but tbf he was right about NZ. They looked every bit as good as the teams from the past two world cups. Ireland and Wales haven't really fronted up at their best, England are the only NH team who look the part but honestly Ibcant see them beating the All Blacks unless they can do something about the glaring wekanesses. It's been flatvtrack for them so far thanks to Australias awful decision making.


Oh theres the inevitable Welsh try to save their blushes.  

Didn't say he wasn't right - but we're not going to hear the end of the SH stuff from him ...

[mikey_dragon]

Should have been a penalty to Wales then.

[tigertattie]

When you have players elbowing people in the face, you’re going to start getting the 50/50s going against you.

[Old Man]

Welsh should buy the French lock a beer after this test.

[Gooseberry]

Not a great advert for rugby this... over 5 minutes off the clock without any proper play

[Duty281]

Looked very forward, but I guess the benefit of the doubt went to Wales based on the on-field call.

All France’s fault for spurning two drop-goal chances. Appalling game management.

Wales will need a huge improvement to defeat the Saffers, presuming they hold on and Japan don’t shock the world.

[alfie]

Re-sets eating up the minutes...

And a penalty to Wales ! That should be it.

[formerly known as Sam]

Margin call in the end ...but France have one player to blame for this.

Not really. How many points of missed kicks in the first half? Dodgy 7 pointer against them. Not just the idiot red card they can point to as costing them.

[Guest]

Looked very forward? Very?! I know I’m biased but it didn’t seem to move forward or backward relative to the 5m line from the overhead shot???

[Guest]

Rubbish.

Can we nominate another team to represent us in the semi, please???

No congratulations from posters please!

[BigGee]

Well done Wales, but you got away with one there

France lost that, you did not win it

Still Semi final it is, but they are going to have to start playing better than that to go through

[formerly known as Sam]

Looked very forward? Very?! I know I’m biased but it didn’t seem to move forward or backward relative to the 5m line from the overhead shot???

Started before and was caught after. It's the spin on the ball as it's ripped. Terrible decision.

[Heaf]

I'd say marginally forwards ...

[alfie]

Hardly the pinnacle of Welsh Rugby but they won't care : in the semi with a chance ...

But they will need to improve a heck of a lot.

[mikey_dragon]

What a painful game. Can’t believe Biggar is celebrating. We don’t deserve to go anywhere but home based on that performance. France were pretty good; they were full of life and sussed us out pretty well. I like the character les bleus showed too. No patting yourself on the back now Wales, it’s back to the drawing board.

[Collapse2005]

Oh dear, Wales desperately fortunate to win that one. I suppose you need some luck at times. France threw it away again. They had quite a few chances to win that one.

[No 7&1/2]

Erm. Regarding the rip forwards. For me it's pretty marginal. What you cant ignore however is that all the officials discussing it didn't realise that it can be ripped forward as it doesnt count. 11.5b.
Ignore that. Law worded slightly unclear and means ripping towards your own try line ie forward in your opponents view.

[BigGee]

Looked very forward? Very?! I know I’m biased but it didn’t seem to move forward or backward relative to the 5m line from the overhead shot???

It was marginal, so ref was fair to go with his on field call

[mikey_dragon]

Thomas and Phillips calling it a cracking game and they were serious. Gosh the loser mentality makes me so mad. 

[Old Man]

French had so many chances to win that match, but alas, they did their best not to win.

[tigertattie]

Vahaamahina will be dreading the kangaroo court!!!

[majesticimperialman]

Wales can count them selves very lucky. France down to 14 and Wales made hard work of it.

Should never of been a try, ball deffo went forward, but the ref decided other wise. 

But a 1 point win, is a win none the less.

Congratulations Wales semi final here you come.

[Duty281]

Nice gentle run to the final for South Africa, just like in 2007.

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