AB Test Team v France.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

So we win by 20 in France and I'm fucking pissed off. This is just weird.

[No Quarter]

Deserved try to Wise - he's been one of our best tonight.

[Virgil]

To be fair all France have managed this half are 2 soft penalties and a very dubious penalty try.
Despite A ton of posession and field position and that’s it.

[hydro11]

Man that was a poor effort. Terrible discipline and we just couldn't get into the second half with 10 penalties versus 2 against us. The first half we were very clinical.

[chimoaus]

Abs score, what a weird game, beautiful first 40 followed by some ugly stuff. But we still win by 20.

[Crucial]

Looking like a good scoreboard for a bunch of muppets playing against 16.

[Tim]

20 point win over a tier-2 team. Ireland or England would’ve done us today.

[chimoaus]

My wife,” that was more painful than it needed to be”

[taniwharugby]

THat 10 minute period following SBW forgetting rugby vs league rules basically shaped this half, shame cos he had been playing well until then

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Tuesday's second test in Lyon. Wtf?

[rotated]

@victor-meldrew said in AB Test Team v France.:

@jc Worst 40mins of AB rugby I've seen since RWC2007 v France

Not even close. We strung together possession wonderfully for the first 30 mins and the Rodders try was the result of a long passage of strong play.

Both halves of any of the losses in 2009 were worse than this - especially the Dunedin test, but both tests in the republic with Donald at 10 were stinkers too.

[Donsteppa]

I’m sure I’ve seen some headlines this week suggesting it was almost a French development team with the number of injuries/unavailabilities?

[Crucial]

@tim said in AB Test Team v France.:

20 point win over a tier-2 team. Ireland or England would’ve done us today.

But @Tim guess what? We weren't playing England or Ireland and the coaches knew that with their player changes and game plans.

[hydro11]

@rancid-schnitzel said in AB Test Team v France.:

Tuesday's second test in Lyon. Wtf?

Not a test, just a game (I think).

[Marty]

@donsteppa I also like the look of this Smith guy, accountancy background

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@hydro11 said in AB Test Team v France.:

@rancid-schnitzel said in AB Test Team v France.:

Tuesday's second test in Lyon. Wtf?

Not a test, just a game (I think).

Mongo fucker on Gogglebox said second test.

[Donsteppa]

@marty said in AB Test Team v France.:

@donsteppa I also like the look of this Smith guy, accountancy background

Ah, that bloke...

(Oops :)).

[Crucial]

@chimoaus said in AB Test Team v France.:

My wife,” that was more painful than it needed to be”

You shouldn't have been trying it on her while watching the game. Bound to make the odd clumsy move.

[Tim]

@crucial Invalid argument. That’s the same team as played against Australia, and we lost that game. Another second half with very poor execution.

[taniwharugby]

@rancid-schnitzel was he the one lauding the French 9 for dummying from the base of a ruck and getting away with it, calling us 2 time RWC champs amongst other unknowledgable calls?