15 Thomas Ramos, 14 Théo Attissogbe, 13 Émilien Gailleton, 12 Fabien Brau-Boirie, 11 Louis Bielle-Biarrey, 10 Matthieu Jalibert, 9 Antoine Dupont (c), 8 Anthony Jelonch, 7 Oscar Jegou, 6 François Cros, 5 Mickaël Guillard, 4 Charles Ollivon, 3 Dorian Aldegheri, 2 Julien Marchand, 1 Jean-Baptiste Gros
Replacements: 16 Maxime Lamothe, 17 Rodrigue Neti, 18 Regis Montagne, 19 Thibaud Flament, 20 Emmanuel Meafou, 21 Lenni Nouchi, 22 Baptiste Serin, 23 Noah Nene
A better squad, but still going to have a beating
Moriarty should be livid
Hopefully we can kick & chase better and not gift the opposition easy tries and easy YCs like we did against England
Scoring a few tries would be wonderful
That would be progress
@MiketheSnow Front row and back row both look better this week, but why oh why is there no Reffell there. If it wasn't for Jan Morgan, he ought to have had a hatful of caps by now. With Morgan out he really should be a shoo-in.
The backs do not inspire one bit though.
@Catogrande said in Wales v France:
@MiketheSnow Front row and back row both look better this week, but why oh why is there no Reffell there. If it wasn't for Jan Morgan, he ought to have had a hatful of caps by now. With Morgan out he really should be a shoo-in.
The backs do not inspire one bit though.
Agree 100%
Pity is we could have France's backs and still not win
We don't win enough clean, quick ball
Very easy to defend against, especially if Shaun Edwards is in charge
I was fuming when England let Edwards slip through their fingers and he turned to the dark side over the river, but you lot must be flabbergasted that your people let let him go when they had him and he was happy (ish) there?
France 12-0 up after 11 minutes.
LB-B in for the second try after lots of forward work and a clever cross kick.
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.
Fast, fun game under the roof so far.
@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?
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.
