B-B scores his second try after France nearly butchers it.

France had an 8-1 advantage...and almost mullered it.

I’d love nz to have pace like BB. Class winger.

Looked for all the world like a forward pass in there.

England 19 France 25.

Ref better try and level it like he's done all game.

Terrible kick by Ollie Lawrence.

@sparky said in 6N 2025: England v France:

Terrible kick by Ollie Lawrence.

Dumb as fuck. Should have taken the tackle - plenty of support.

Feels like England are going to lose a close one yet again.

Daly in.

Daley in after a glorious mini-delayed pass by Fin Smith,

Under the post with the kick to come.

Good match. France only have themselves to blame. Just shocking hands all match.

Fuck yes Beckenham! Take your SE hatred to the tip @Catogrande

England 24 France 25.

Kick over. England 26 France 25

But there is enough time for a restart.

England secure it.

And kick it off.

England win.

Amazing

Le Fuck Up by France.

Great persistence by England. Congratulations.

Boy, did Dupont's appalling knock on around the 20 minutes mark matter in the end!

Huge twenty minutes by Jamie George when he came on. Calmed down and steered everything up front for England.

England are becoming a pretty likeable side. Lots of passion with minimal dick-headed-ness.

@Victor-Meldrew Shame about Itoje, but the rest are okay.

Congratulations England, well played. France look tired

@sparky said in 6N 2025: England v France:

@Victor-Meldrew Shame about Itoje, but the rest are okay.

Marcus, even the name smells of piston wristed gibbon.

@Bones Wash your mouth out, I have a nephew with that name.

@sparky said in 6N 2025: England v France:

@Bones Wash your mouth out, I have a nephew with that name.

Strike two.

@sparky Cam Roigard would have caught that.

@game_film said in 6N 2025: England v France:

@sparky Cam Roigard would have caught that.

Couldn’t have

He’d have been on the bench

@MiketheSnow Not anymore!

@game_film said in 6N 2025: England v France:

@MiketheSnow Not anymore!

Maybe not for NZ

But he’d be riding the pine behind DuPont

Well enjoyed that game, and thought at times it got chaotic as buggery, kind of unlike England . Like @mariner4life I enjoy games that go that way for a while. It's where players stand up and get counted I think. Was a bloody good advert for game all together, well I thought.

Highlights.

@Bones said in 6N 2025: England v France:

Fuck yes Beckenham! Take your SE hatred to the tip @Catogrande

Nope. It’s just you.

A really exciting game, especially for the neutral. I was watching it in a bar in France with some decent french guys, all of us applauding any good play and shouting at the TV when our side fucked up and it’s fair to say that they shouted more than me, which makes me feel that France lost the game rather than we won it. Notwithstanding a bloody good fight back.

I still see little structure in England’s game plan and look back to last year’s game v Ireland and think “is this another false dawn”?

On the positive side of things there were some good individual performances; Chessum made his mark and carried very well. George made a mockery of my view that he cannot be an impact player anymore, but for me the biggest positive was the dropping of the replacement by numbers strategy that we’ve seen far too often. Let’s hope that continues.

Unlucky France, you did more than enough to win but tits do not make hands. Another day and you’d have been 20 point winners.

@Bones said in 6N 2025: England v France:

Love Ramos' disinterest in tackling Lawrence

As I've said, a poor defender. Great fend though.

A good game in the end but the constant stoppages, in the 1st half especially, are a blight on the game. England mainly at fault for players going to ground with an "injury". It's funny how the shot clock for conversions has affected the goal kickers when they are forced to rush their routine. No excuses.

The Georgian work experience ref still has no idea at the breakdown. Players entered ruck from the side or from offside repeatedly. Comical to see players metres in front at kickoffs too.

First half watched. France bombing some tries. Dupont demonstrating even to the NH scribes that he's less then mortal which an inability to catch with the line open, loopy hospital passes etc.

Interminable stoppages in play.

It seems to me that once WR determine you're a project, you simply have a free ticket to more Tests. Case in point wheelbarrow with an A from Georgia who cares naught about supporting one's bodyweight, or not penalising props falling on their face.

I'm off to put another undercoat on a wall. I might also watch it dry.