Match thread

taniwharugby

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

Damo

Cleaners are not close enough to the ball carrier.

taniwharugby

Very long from bind to set it will always collapse

Crazy Horse

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

Jailbreak7

How the fark was that held up???

taniwharugby

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

Stargazer

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

No Quarter

Crazy not to check the grounding

Bones

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

antipodean

Ferns love passing to unsuspecting teammates.

antipodean

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

taniwharugby

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

taniwharugby

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

KiwiMurph

France dominating the collisions.

Tui should be at 15

Jailbreak7

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

antipodean

The sooner Cocksedge is off the field, the better.

Frank

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

antipodean

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

KiwiMurph

Smith paying the price for not picking on form

taniwharugby

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

Damo

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.

Stargazer

Over the horizontal. Clearly.

Edit: the TMO needs to go to specsavers.

Damo

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

KiwiMurph

TMO fucking hell.

taniwharugby

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

Bones

@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

kiwiinmelb

Need a try to lift their spirit

Toddy

Penalty is fair I reckon

Damo

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

taniwharugby

Half-time can't come soon enough...need to reset make a couple of.changes and calm down.

booboo

They're pretty liberal with straightness of the lineouts

booboo

Oops, realised I'm 10 mins behind. Currently 0-10 in booboo world

kiwiinmelb

Some good rugby through all that by both teams