Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final

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

Excuse my ignorance, I’ve been following our girls but don’t have a great knowledge of our opposition,

Is the a 50/50 or are we favourites ?

The exciting thing is that we truly don’t know and this will be a clash of styles.

It is as close to an old school SH v NH rugby game as you’ll get. One side keeping the ball in hand, running lines and offloading, the other with a kick and defend style. Well organised and ready to smash it up in a 10 man way.

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

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

Excuse my ignorance, I’ve been following our girls but don’t have a great knowledge of our opposition,

Is the a 50/50 or are we favourites ?

They dominated us when we toured there last year(?). But we were struggling post-covid19 and there was discord in the team, and they had regular play in the 6N. I would assume we are a much more dangerous proposition now

Yeah I was aware of those results I watched those games ,

Just wasn’t 100 percent if we had improved enough to move ahead in the favouritism

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

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

Excuse my ignorance, I’ve been following our girls but don’t have a great knowledge of our opposition,

Is the a 50/50 or are we favourites ?

The exciting thing is that we truly don’t know and this will be a clash of styles.

It is as close to an old school SH v NH rugby game as you’ll get. One side keeping the ball in hand, running lines and offloading, the other with a kick and defend style. Well organised and ready to smash it up in a 10 man way.

Cool , that’s what I figured , have enjoyed watching them thus far , plenty of fun to watch , let’s hope we can keep it going

Only 20,000 tickets sold for the Womens Rugby World Cup semi finals Still it is 2,000 tickets more than they had for the 2017 Womens Rugby World Cup final played at Kingspan home ground of Ulster in Ireland Probably about several thousand more that rock up to Blues games during the season and probably about 19,000 more twhat rock up to Auckland NPC games at home .
If they can get a walk up of 5’000-7’000 given the weather for tomorrow is good .
You would take that would’nt you ..?

@Steven-Harris I'm not surprised. I think it was 35k rocked up for the hype around the triple header opening day.

People will jump on the bandwagon if the BFs make the final at the same venue a week later.

Comparatively good numbers but we should be able to do better IMO. The free to air on TV3 wont help.

@Crucial is it live now or still delayed?

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

@Crucial is it live now or still delayed?

What time is this on? I'll take a look

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

@Crucial is it live now or still delayed?

Live on TV3 for the semis and finals.

Both SFs are live on TV3.

4:30 pm and 7:30 pm

This is the 10th game between NZ and France. NZ won the first 5 games but France have won the last 4 (since 2018). First time playing each other in NZ.

25k ish crowd.
That last semi was good watching and it was meant to be the easy one.
Really looking forward to this and hope the stress levels aren’t like the last time finals rugby was at the Garden of Eden.

@Crucial I definitely have pre-game nerves!

I am going to watch the Doris's play for the first ever. Don't let me down.

Pretty unconvincing start from the Black Ferns. Loose and now given away a PK at scrum time.

Great defence from BF but I don't know how long we can keep that up. France never looked like losing the ball in that long series of phases.

Cocksedge needs to settle the fuck down she hacked the ball down field and there was no chase

Maybe a blessing to give away that penalty, felt like a try was coming

Support is far too slow to the breakdown. Lack of direction from 9 and 10 isn't helping, nor is some average passing under pressure.

France look well settled already.

Anyone watching this in Oz? I've got a black screen with commentary.

@Steven-Harris said in Black Ferns v France, RWC Semi Final:

Cocksedge needs to settle the fuck down she hacked the ball down field and there was no chase

Off a penalty. She tapped, ran and kicked within 5 metres. I've never understood how any player somehow learns that's a thing that is done.

@Nepia mines working fine

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

Anyone watching this in Oz? I've got a black screen with commentary.

It's all Blue so far

Reverse angle of that pen shows it was the wrong call

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

Support is far too slow to the breakdown. Lack of direction from 9 and 10 isn't helping, nor is some average passing under pressure.

France look well settled already.

Started like we started against Aus.

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

@Nepia mines working fine

Cheers. Guess I'll restart.

Don't like how they rule that, she won that, then lost it but still pinged for holding

If the Ferns cant sort their breakdown clean out ,its gonna be a long night

Cleaners are not close enough to the ball carrier.

Very long from bind to set it will always collapse

It's unfortunate Tanana's co commentator is called Honey. I thought he was being patronising at first

How the fark was that held up???

@Jailbreak7 clearly...thought it was worth a look

@Jailbreak7 Yeah, that warranted another look by the TMO.

Crazy not to check the grounding

Just need to calm down. Getting there, but still rushing lines and passes.

Ferns love passing to unsuspecting teammates.

This is some dumb rugby. Fluhler lucky that ball didn't stay in, they could've been a gift to the French.

@antipodean that could turned out very badly