You fucking knob. You don't kick it.
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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.
Half time.
Wales 7 France 26.
France made a massive 533 metres running past the gain line in that half.
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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?
@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.
@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?
"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.
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 said in Wales v France:
Glorious try for France.
Which one of us is watching on delay?
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.
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.
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.
Grady gets a consolation try and gives the crowd something to cheer for at the end.
12-54 with two minutes to go.
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.
Alex Mann at 7 was the pick of the Welsh players. He's a keeper.
Eddie James had some good moments too.
France achieved a whooping 28 line breaks. Probably should have finished better and used LB-B more.
Sonja "What's morale like? It must be difficult in that red jersey now."
This interview is another disaster.
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 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.
Just watched the highlights
We are where we are but we certainly don’t need to be gifting tries like Beard did
And is it me or is Hawkins like a cart horse?
Just watched the 2nd half. Must be tough to be a Wales supporter right now. They do so much right and then fuck up at exactly the wrong time. Hope Tandy can get the pieces of the jigsaw together as I'm a closet Wales supporter.
Oh, and Wainright is an absolute beast who never gives up. Love to have him in the AB's
@Victor-Meldrew It never ceases to amaze me when Wainwright is not selected, which has happened far too often. He really ought to be one of the first names on the team sheet.
Another tough day for Wales but a marked improvement from the England game I feel. Discipline was certainly much better and it looked like the attitude had taken a step up too. Some good defensive work certainly but then some crass decision making or skillset errors undo everything.
As for Beard - I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Laugh I think.
@Catogrande said in Wales v France:
As for Beard - I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Channelling his inner George Ford
@sparky said in Wales v France:
The Welsh loosehead prop, Carre, borrows over just as it looked like France were going to run away with it. 7-19 to the visitors.
He's a librarian?