Spoke too soon, Dan
13-11 at the break? Close stuff.
Phew! I think I might watch the second half from behind the sofa.
Mike Blair is a good and refreshing pundit, can we just get rid of Harry Hyperbole now
Listening on the radio to the Scottish BBC coverage, one eyed is an understatement 😆
Can barely believe anyone criticizing Scottish commentary when we've suffered Guscott and Moore for years. Throw Inverdale in and we have the Garth Crooks of rugby
Throw Inverdale
That was all that sentence needed to be.
#TJGoesIntoOrbit
Nice 🙂 Try scorer had just come on, first touch ?
**** he missed tye conversion 😯
Can barely believe anyone criticizing Scottish commentary when we've suffered Guscott and Moore for years. Throw Inverdale in and we have the Garth Crooks of rugby
Love a bit of partisan commentary, nothing wrong with it as long as it doesn't include dissing the oppos.
Enjoyed that one.
EDIT: FFS.
"'Mon then France ya rockets! "
Quote from somebody in a Weedgie pub just now...( not me!)
Doesn't matter where the head was going, it is the end result...Hold on...GET IN YOU DANCER! 😀
What was with that conversion??
Kwalitee Konvershun
That's a corker for the question of sport gag reel!
And a dumb restart 😥
FR discipline is v poor - might hand it to Scotland at this rate
...and another!!
Not getting much biking done this weekend...
Surely France are cheating, they have not brought Doussain on yet. Lopez isn't very good but he is at least bordering on sane.
Oh well. Better team (just) won despite poor discipline. Good effort from Scotland too but killed in the scrum. France should have won by more.
Enjoyed that game. France were good; their pack is monstrous and marmalised the Scottish pack. The French team have come on a lot in a year.
Scotland's discipline let them down in the second half. Given the injuries, I'm guessing Cotter is glad that there is no game next week.
Some odd reffing in contrast to yesterday
Disappointed with the result but Scotland were always going to be overpowered. Thought both teams threw chances away with poor handling. The medics will have their work cut out this week.
Better team won, did to us what we did to the Irish last week.
Agreed. But it was still there for the taking if we'd held on to the ball.
France deserved the win but think the score flattered them slightly. No idea why we ran at them so much as they're massive, we didn't really play out wide at all.
Two really close and entertaining games this weekend; if we can find (train / select or get fit) a back row we (England) are going to be hard to beat.
I think if Scotland had a better bench they might just have edged their game.
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Throw Inverdale
That was all that sentence needed to be.POSTED 2 HOURS AGO #
Not sure I get all the Inverdale hate - he's a nice bloke when you meet him in the flesh and was a pretty decent centre in his day. I played against him a couple of times and he was always very friendly, approachable and generous in the bar afterwards despite already being "on TV".
I know he's made a couple of unfortunate gaffes but I'm not convinced he deserves all the vitriol he receives.
I agree re Inverdale, proper Rugby bloke, is an enthusiast about sport generally and I think one of the BBC's best presenters. Producers drive the content.
I'm sure he's a lovely bloke ENGLAND but his coverage of rugby ENGLAND is ENGLAND very ENGLAND annoying into that he ENGLAND just seems ENGLAND incapable of covering ENGLAND any games without constantly ENGLAND mentioning one team almost every other word.....
I'm sure he's a lovely bloke ENGLAND but his coverage of rugby ENGLAND is ENGLAND very ENGLAND annoying into that he ENGLAND just seems ENGLAND incapable of covering ENGLAND any games without constantly ENGLAND mentioning one team almost every other word.....
Likewise, i dont see an issue here... 8)
Racist!
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I always remember Inverdale at half time in something like Wales v Ireland turning to Colin Charvis and asking "Colin, so how do you think the English back row will go tomorrow?" Long pause from Colin as he gathered his thoughts..
I know he's made a couple of unfortunate gaffes but I'm not convinced he deserves all the vitriol he receives.
Vitriol is a bit strong when he's simply criticised for making gaffes. But I do see what you did there.
France thoroughly deserved the win today.
Never liked Inverdale as a hostand he has done little or nothing to make me change my mind
I'm not a huge fan of Inverdale. Jiffy is no different and DON'T get me started on Nichol!!!!
Whereas yesterday POC and M Williams were very good, much less 1-eyed.
Saint Jonny too.
Nichol is a parody of himself - you have to wonder whether he is watching a different match. He also needs to remember that the over use of the superlative on the average/poor means you have nothing left to describe good/excellent play
Agreed POC and M Williams were good
Sir Clive is another cyclops rivalling Nicol at times but not reaching his level yet....
Inverdale,"well I think we are all agreed the flood gates will open second half:
Weekend lions
1
2 Jamie George
3
4 Alun Wyn Jones
5 Joe Launchbury
6 Sam Warburton
7 Justin Tipuric
8 R Moriarty
9 R Webb
10 D Biggar
11 Liam Williams
12 Owen Farrell
13 J Davies
14 Elliot Daley
15 Stuart Hogg
Midweeker
Josh Strauss ...Very good game today
Finn Russell...For all the thrills.
Jamie Heaslip
CJ Stander
I'd put Stander in for Warburton. Sam was good, but stander was betterer.
Just edited re Stander....Italy were poor so a bit of down marking therefore me
Paddy Jackson has been good over two games as well
Why have you put Farell in the midweek team?
? No 1 to 15 is the first choice team based on weekends performance. So Farrell in at 12.
I feel for Robshaw. He was the NH's stand out back row player in the AI's and now it looks like he'll miss another lions tour due to what must be the first time he's ever been out injured.
That's a lot of Welsh players in that squad bearing mind hat they lost this weekend and failed to get a bonus point against Italy.
Stander as an absolute beast at the weekend. It may 'only' have been Italy, but he was still the first forward to score a hatrick.
