Ireland v France 11/10/2015
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
In hindsight is it possible that POC started the game with a slight niggle.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
Talking to a couple of their supporters on the train back to London after the game, this is what upset them most. The fact that we beat them up(up front), particularly in the second half. To a man they bemoaned the "lack of fight".Dave Cahill wrote:Ireland beat France how you have to beat France - up front, no other team reacts so poorly to their pack being beaten up as the French do. For all the joys of their back play during the 70s and 80s, French rugby is about the forwards. It always has been.
In the run up to this game we were all worried about how what we believed to be a fitter, more organised French team would play. But at the final whistle it became obvious that this french team's gains in fitness were purely relative to other french teams. In absolute terms Ireland ran them into the ground. The pace we played at in the second half was just a level they couldn't deal with. They then had to change everything they were certain would be key to a French victory - they believed in Michelak and T-B - changed. They believed in Basteraud - changed. They believed in their strength in depth, yet we were able to replace leaders, captains and game managers without missing a beat. In short, we took everything they believed about this fixture and turned it on them, we hammered the hammer.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
I assume you've forwarded this to the relevant authorities?simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
I tweeted Dave Cahill right away, so yesPeg Leg wrote:I assume you've forwarded this to the relevant authorities?simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Lets just hope they do the citings in the same gyspy caravan park they do the rankings in
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
wouldn't have thought that SOB was that easily provoked.simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Had to be something else to it.
if not it was beyond foolish.
Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
The French call Henderson a four wheel drive Tractor.
Not sure how that looks in French.
By all accounts NZ could be in for a rough ride on Saturday.
Not sure how that looks in French.
By all accounts NZ could be in for a rough ride on Saturday.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
SOB cited.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
maybe he thought a 120kg lock with a penchant for violence wouldnt be felled by pink bellyAll Blacks nil wrote:wouldn't have thought that SOB was that easily provoked.simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Had to be something else to it.
if not it was beyond foolish.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
Rumour is that pape was interfering with his dangly bits. Where that rumour originates I dunno.All Blacks nil wrote:wouldn't have thought that SOB was that easily provoked.simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Had to be something else to it.
if not it was beyond foolish.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
as the rumours were a finger in the jacksie I am going to have to strongly advise you to see a physician if your Hooper is dangly, I know for a fact Bails' Japanese doctor is over for the world cupjohng wrote:Rumour is that pape was interfering with his dangly bits. Where that rumour originates I dunno.All Blacks nil wrote:wouldn't have thought that SOB was that easily provoked.simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Had to be something else to it.
if not it was beyond foolish.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
According to the urban dictionary he has a pink sock. Defo see Bails' man for some advice.simonokeeffe wrote:
as the rumours were a finger in the jacksie I am going to have to strongly advise you to see a physician if your Hooper is dangly, I know for a fact Bails' Japanese doctor is over for the world cup
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
It's called getting your rumours in (out) first.johng wrote:Rumour is that pape was interfering with his dangly bits. Where that rumour originates I dunno.All Blacks nil wrote:wouldn't have thought that SOB was that easily provoked.simonokeeffe wrote:I rewatched the start, Pape pinched/groped SOBs backside at worst but SOB didnt fully clench his fist and didnt connect with front of knuckles (like how youd punch someone properly)
Pape also stays down until France get the ball back and was ok to take part in a lineout on our 22
Had to be something else to it.
if not it was beyond foolish.
Something else to think about.
Having jacksied poor Sean (The poor Sean campaign has to start somewhere) just imagine where/who Pape placed the offending digit/digits on afterwards both during the game and following the game. Who did he shake hands with for example>
Draw up a list and try to get the citing official and committee names onto it. That should get Sean off unless they do him for not giving Pape a proper dig.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
I actually attempted to press play on that screen grab
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
olaf the fat wrote:The French game plan was based on targeting Sexton, after 25 minutes he was gone. Along with Sexton, so went the French game plan. They were simply out thought and out fought by a team they could not beat in the last 4 seasons.
Our provincial teams dont fear French club teams anymore and that is reflecting at international level now.
There was no game plan.
There was no game
There was no plan.
There was a poor French National Team that fought with his physical brain. We are not brainless, we are physical. Sometimes.
Au revoir.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
Sorry, I forgot one little thing: Ireland was really great.
Au revoir.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
not sure Guy Noves going to be much better, he might at least though want to play some rugby
France need a coach to come in and say no more project players in the team, or at least impose a strict limit on it say 2 in the 23 man squad
Would help stir up patriotism and support
France need a coach to come in and say no more project players in the team, or at least impose a strict limit on it say 2 in the 23 man squad
Would help stir up patriotism and support
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
Clubs control rugby in France, club control has increased, national team has declined.simonokeeffe wrote:not sure Guy Noves going to be much better, he might at least though want to play some rugby
France need a coach to come in and say no more project players in the team, or at least impose a strict limit on it say 2 in the 23 man squad
Would help stir up patriotism and support
Clubs control rugby in England, England don't qualify from their group.
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Re: Ireland v France 11/10/2015
Clubs control rugby in Wales but WRU trying to re-establish control, Wales qualify.Dexter wrote:Clubs control rugby in France, club control has increased, national team has declined.simonokeeffe wrote:not sure Guy Noves going to be much better, he might at least though want to play some rugby
France need a coach to come in and say no more project players in the team, or at least impose a strict limit on it say 2 in the 23 man squad
Would help stir up patriotism and support
Clubs control rugby in England, England don't qualify from their group.
There's a separate, post RWC, thread in your post.
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