@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.

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

They're pretty liberal with straightness of the lineouts

@booboo and foul play

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

Some good rugby through all that by both teams

The French D is awesome

I'm not complaining, but that was an absurdly long advantage.

Are they 40 minute halves?

@Crazy-Horse Yes, of course.

Some positive signs , momentum shift

This new held up rule is a shit stain on the concept of rewarding attacking play.

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

@Crazy-Horse Yes, of course.

Cool. For some reason I thought they may have been 35 mins

Her last 2 kicks have gone on the full...

"They won't mind this result" What an odd comment.

However in the end it worked out!

This French pack is tough

Definite momentum switch, but they must score at least 3 points here.

Every time momentum swings to the BFs, a Frog frontrower goes down prompting drinks break.

Fuck I hate this rule.

Got to get Holmes and Coxsedge off ASAP!

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

Some good rugby through all that by both teams

Just saw the tackle on Tui ... gutless ref