I'm all for less cards, but jeez that was pathetic call in current framework...ref was looking at pen only to start

wow we can kick into touch, I didn't know we had that superpower!

Sigh. How many of the turnovers are on Hirini?

French six was on her knees ffs

Cocksedge , settle the fuck down

How the fuck was she supporting her weight?

Why quick tap there when you are winning?

What the fuck

Not even close to on her feet.

Cocksedge is going to lose it for us.

They theory is to run them off their feet, I guess

@Steven-Harris I actually like how she tries to speed up the game. The French struggle with our speed.

Absolutely insane decision to tap the penalty. She's lost the plot

@Stargazer said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

@Steven-Harris I actually like how she tries to speed up the game. The French struggle with our speed.

Clearly not.

@hydro11 said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

Why quick tap there when you are winning?

Why... well when you're a retarded halfback who couldn't be more useless, that's what you do!

Trying to win a rwc semi with 0 kicking game is interesting

@Bones for someone with so much experience for every good thing she does theres plenty of rocks in between

Dumb stuff

@Stargazer said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

@Steven-Harris I actually like how she tries to speed up the game. The French struggle with our speed.

There's a time and a place for it. Up by 1 with 7 and a half to go and with the other team missing a forward is not the time to do it.

@Steven-Harris said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

@Bones for someone with so much experience for every good thing she does theres plenty of rocks in between

Game losing rocks too. That turnover came from her quick tap. As did the other turnovers when she immediately kicked it to France and they took us to task.

@Damo said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

@Stargazer said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

@Steven-Harris I actually like how she tries to speed up the game. The French struggle with our speed.

There's a time and a place for it. Up by 1 with 7 and a half to go and with the other team missing a forward is not the time to do it.

That's an understatement. We've scored most of our tries this cup from lineouts and we've passed up the opportunity for a lineout 5 - 10m out twice by tapping it instead. Absolutely mind boggling.

What, no quick tap?

@taniwharugby said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

What, no quick tap?

Lol

So are we going to win this thing and how many minutes to go. The NZ herald live updates suck

Lucky the French didn't pass to the outside there?

At least our prop knows how to kick

Penalty, France kick the goal and win.

What now ...?

@hydro11 said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

Penalty, France kick the goal and win.

Yellow, and France win

So a yellow? To be consistent?

But she wasn't upright....

She won't miss this.

Has to be

Bugger.

That's the game. Certainly a PK and it's right in front.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Red. Not a soak tackle

This loss is on the halfback and first five , nobody can convince me other wise ..
Cocksedge and Demant have not managed this 2nd half ..

Dumb rugby by an experienced player got us in this mess.

The last one was higher and less attempt to tackle legally I thought

@Steven-Harris said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

This loss is on the halfback and first five , nobody can convince me other wise ..

And the coach who refuses to ever bench either or think about playing anyone else.

@Steven-Harris too much funking about in our own half and jot enough cool heads