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

Cocksedge needs to settle the fuck down she hacked the ball down field and there was no chase

Off a penalty. She tapped, ran and kicked within 5 metres. I've never understood how any player somehow learns that's a thing that is done.

@Nepia mines working fine

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

Anyone watching this in Oz? I've got a black screen with commentary.

It's all Blue so far

Reverse angle of that pen shows it was the wrong call

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

Support is far too slow to the breakdown. Lack of direction from 9 and 10 isn't helping, nor is some average passing under pressure.

France look well settled already.

Started like we started against Aus.

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

@Nepia mines working fine

Cheers. Guess I'll restart.

Don't like how they rule that, she won that, then lost it but still pinged for holding

If the Ferns cant sort their breakdown clean out ,its gonna be a long night

Cleaners are not close enough to the ball carrier.

Very long from bind to set it will always collapse

It's unfortunate Tanana's co commentator is called Honey. I thought he was being patronising at first

How the fark was that held up???

@Jailbreak7 clearly...thought it was worth a look

@Jailbreak7 Yeah, that warranted another look by the TMO.

Crazy not to check the grounding

Just need to calm down. Getting there, but still rushing lines and passes.

Ferns love passing to unsuspecting teammates.

This is some dumb rugby. Fluhler lucky that ball didn't stay in, they could've been a gift to the French.

@antipodean that could turned out very badly

That's about the 3rd not straight line out let go

Well worked try but man WR needs to sort mauls out as they are so poorly reffed

France dominating the collisions.

Tui should be at 15

@Steven-Harris That did turn out badly. Scored too easily.

The sooner Cocksedge is off the field, the better.

@Jailbreak7 on the back of another penalty

Trying to open my mind by watching women's rugby for the first time.
Impression so far, it's like 'War of the Hobbits.'

How the fuck did the ref consider that a turnover, rather than playing the ball on the ground?

Smith paying the price for not picking on form

@antipodean yeah she's letting alot go on the deck and no offside line either

I hate to be negative but we appear to be worse in every facet of the game so far. Even in broken play which I expected us to be good we look less fluent than the French.

Over the horizontal. Clearly.

Edit: the TMO needs to go to specsavers.

YC I think. She needed to let her down more gently. Can't dump her like that.

TMO fucking hell.

@Stargazer more so she hit the ground on her neck first

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

Over the horizontal. Clearly.

Yeah I thought it was fine at first, but fuck knows how they watch that and conclude that's not above horizontal - she landed clearly on her upper back. Morons

@KiwiMurph who would you have picked ..?, for me i would have picked Kenndy Simon much more physical Sarah Hirini has been missing in action

Need a try to lift their spirit

Penalty is fair I reckon

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

@KiwiMurph who would you have picked ..?, for me i would have picked Kenndy Simon much more physical Sarah Hirini has been missing in action

Tui at 15 and not Cocksedge at 9 to start with. Yeah need Simon's physicality.

Straight off feet. I thought for a second ref was going to let that go.