Match thread

Victor Meldrew

The commentary Ying and Yang. Andrew Cotter and Jonathan Davies

sparky

@Victor-Meldrew said in Wales v France:

The commentary Ying and Yang. Andrew Cotter and Jonathan Davies

Who's the Danny guy they keep going to? Danny Care?

sparky

Attisogbe in for a try after a masterful kick from Antonie Dupont.

sparky

And the TMO has found something.

Attisogbe was offside at the kick so it's ruled out.

sparky

Wales with a rare attacking scrum. Can you do anything with it?

sparky

France blow another one.

Bones

You fucking knob. You don't kick it.

sparky

Jalibert in after a late Valentine day's gift by Welsh lock Adam Beard with as dumb a kick as you are ever going to see.

sparky

Even though Wales are playing a bit better than last wee, they are still crap.

sparky

Half time.

Wales 7 France 26.

France made a massive 533 metres running past the gain line in that half.

sparky

The skills gap between these two sides is as wide as the Pacific Ocean.

Credit to Wales for staying at it when they are being utterly outclassed.

pooler fan

@sparky he can barely pass so what on earth made him think he was going to put a pin point kick into space is beyond me.
I'd have subbed the twat off after that if I was the coach.

sparky

Who's the other bloke with Martin Johnson and Sam Warburton?

sparky

I like the BBC coverage. Gabby Logan is the best UK presenter and Andrew Cotter the best commentator by some distance.

But it does feel like they have too many co-commentators and pundits. It just gets confusing and some of them don't really add anything.

Bones

@pooler-fan classic 3 on 2 where you give it to the guy outside and let them make the decision, he's probably never kicked in his professional career.

Bones

@sparky said in Wales v France:

I like the BBC coverage. Gabby Logan is the best UK presenter and Andrew Cotter the best commentator by some distance.

But it does feel like they have too many co-commentators and pundits.

Only one they need to get rid of, adds absolutely nothing, has zero fucking idea and yet somehow retains her spot for decades.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in Wales v France:

@sparky said in Wales v France:

I like the BBC coverage. Gabby Logan is the best UK presenter and Andrew Cotter the best commentator by some distance.

But it does feel like they have too many co-commentators and pundits.

Only one they need to get rid of, adds absolutely nothing, has zero fucking idea and yet somehow retains her spot for decades.

When did Jonathan Davies transition?

Bones

@Victor-Meldrew said in Wales v France:

@Bones said in Wales v France:

@sparky said in Wales v France:

I like the BBC coverage. Gabby Logan is the best UK presenter and Andrew Cotter the best commentator by some distance.

But it does feel like they have too many co-commentators and pundits.

Only one they need to get rid of, adds absolutely nothing, has zero fucking idea and yet somehow retains her spot for decades.

When did Jonathan Davies transition?

Signed with Widnes in '89.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in Wales v France:

@pooler-fan classic 3 on 2 where you give it to the guy outside and let them make the decision, he's probably never kicked in his professional career.

Probably?

sparky

"Marchand continues his march to the line"

Route one from France for try number 5. It's the French hooker's 50th Test apparently and he celebrates it with a meat pie.

Victor Meldrew

Could get seriously ugly for Wales.

sparky

France really are some side these days. Threats all over pitch and they play with both structure and flair.

Far too good for poor Wales.

Victor Meldrew

Glorious try for France.

sparky

Attisogbe scores his second try from a cross kick after his opposite wing goes missing in action.

Great execution by Jalibert, but far too soft.

sparky

And it's another. It's over 50.

If it was a boxing match, the ref would have stopped the contest.

And there's 18 minutes to go.

sparky

I'm losing patience with Jonathan Davies.

sparky

Are the Welsh crowd taking part in a sponsored silence?

sparky

Apparently today's attendance is 57,744.

It's the lowest ever Six Nations crowd in Cardiff, fewer than the previous smallest crowd of 58,349 against Italy in 2002.

sparky

Matthieu Jalibert wins Man of the Match. Correct call.

sparky

Grady gets a consolation try and gives the crowd something to cheer for at the end.

12-54 with two minutes to go.

sparky

All over.

France march on. They are some side at the moment.

Wales showed a bit of backbone and defiance there, but their lack of skills against a team that has them in abundance really limits them.

Wales did well to limit the damage given what the score was with 20 minutes to go
When you miss over 30 tackles and kick ball away even right at the death the welsh 9 kicks the ball away
France for too good but I did like some of the welsh ball movement when they held the ball for periods

sparky

Alex Mann at 7 was the pick of the Welsh players. He's a keeper.

Eddie James had some good moments too.

sparky

France achieved a whooping 28 line breaks. Probably should have finished better and used LB-B more.

sparky

Sonja "What's morale like? It must be difficult in that red jersey now."

This interview is another disaster.

pooler fan

France were playing a different game to Wales for most of that.
Ridiculous pace and skills.
We battled hard but are miles away from where we should be.
It's going to be an awfully long road back (if we ever get there), I'm not hopeful of things getting better anytime soon.

Jailbreak7

@sparky I was just wondering what we would be like against France I doubt we would be making many linebreaks just at the minute....or how we would go against Wales even..

sparky

@Jailbreak7 French forward have more skills than ours at the minute. And we don't have a 10 as good as Jalibert and there's not a wing in New Zealand nearly as dangerous at Test level as LBB.

But elsewhere the ABs would be competitive.

sparky

That Adam Beard kick in all its glory.