6N 2018
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@pot-hale said in 6N 2018:
@catogrande said in 6N 2018:
Good luck in Dublin to our friends from across the Taff. If you would please do us a favour and knock over Ireland I'd be grateful.
They did that last year.
And there's no substitute for experience.
Hopefully.
BTW good display by your boys yesterday.
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@catogrande said in 6N 2018:
@pot-hale said in 6N 2018:
@catogrande said in 6N 2018:
Good luck in Dublin to our friends from across the Taff. If you would please do us a favour and knock over Ireland I'd be grateful.
They did that last year.
And there's no substitute for experience.
Hopefully.
BTW good display by your boys yesterday.
Aye - somewhat. The 3rd quarter burst from Italy caught them napping notwithstanding the impact of a few subs on defensive alignment, Larmour found out the hard way that there’s more required than fancy stepping and a nose for the try line.
Injuries the biggest outcome from the game. Furlong, Conan, Henshaw and Ringrose possibly missing for the Welsh match. Porter did a good job at TH and Ryan will back him up. Probably Chris Farrell in at 13, with Aki or Rory Scannell at 12. Back 3 as you were. Unless Conway is preferred on the wing to start with Stockdale at 23 for utility cover. We’re at home but not convinced yet we have the mettle and momentum to arrive in Twickenham unbeaten.
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Best game of the weekend this one. Scotland playing like they did in November and France putting up a good fight.
Yep, got it all. A few tries (gotten out of the way in first half, no need for any more of that bullshit in the 2nd). Both teams constantly "in the game". Probably a close finish. Crazy sequences of passing including both the "volleyball pass" and the "Spencer between the legs pass" in a single phase.
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France were as clueless and as unprofessional as ever. The amount of silly and unnecessary penalties that they conceded in the last 20 brought Scotland back into the game. Has there been a more underachieving team in world sport than France, considering the resources and talent available to them?
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France were as clueless and as unprofessional as ever. The amount of silly and unnecessary penalties that they conceded in the last 20 brought Scotland back into the game. Has there been a more underachieving team in world sport than France, considering the resources and talent available to them?
France have always had the potential to lose to the Scots at the drop of a hat and then beat one of the big guns a week later......I do have to admit this current team looks godawful though.
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France were as clueless and as unprofessional as ever. The amount of silly and unnecessary penalties that they conceded in the last 20 brought Scotland back into the game. Has there been a more underachieving team in world sport than France, considering the resources and talent available to them?
France have always had the potential to lose to the Scots at the drop of a hat and then beat one of the big guns a week later......I do have to admit this current team looks godawful though.
I thought they were quite good for 60 minutes. Not world beating, but worthy. They slowly disintegrated as fitness waned and pressure came on though.
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Finn Russell allowed them to stay in the game. He really had a mare. And France were also kept in the game thanks to Teddy Thomas who did the most with the few balls he got on his wing. He has some serious wheels but has the tendency to stay on his wing rather than looking for work in other parts of the pitch.
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Finn Russell allowed them to stay in the game. He really had a mare. And France were also kept in the game thanks to Teddy Thomas who did the most with the few balls he got on his wing. He has some serious wheels but has the tendency to stay on his wing rather than looking for work in other parts of the pitch.
I think you found the reason why in your own post. His key ability is to use his speed. It isn't often these days that you see, even a winger, stand up and gas a defender on the outside.
I don't think he has the power to mix it up much.
Therefore France need o find attacking plans that give him room. Squeeze the defence in close then give him 10 metres minimum to work in. -
I just saw it (away for the weekend) and on first watch I thought it was a try all day long. But on replay, I thought he knocked it on. It certainly wasn't as clear as obvious as Gatland made it sound in the presser (which I had seen earlier). Hard to argue with it, anyway, pretty much a line call (I'd have been OK with it going the other way but I thought he knocked it on).
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WR have come out and said the TMO got it wrong.
(Still waiting on their comment regarding what happened at the end of the Lions series....)
Not sure how anyone can doubt the validity of the try tbh.
In this frame you can see Anscombe reaching the ball first. Hand, ball and grass all connected.
If you are doubting whether he had pressure on the ball then look at this next frame where the ball has considerably been pushed into the turf as Anscombes hand slides to the side. At this point no other player has touched the ball.
The relevant Law:
The ball can be grounded in in-goal:
By holding it and touching the ground with it; or
By pressing down on it with a hand or hands, arm or arms, or the front of the player’s body from waist to neck.
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I just saw it (away for the weekend) and on first watch I thought it was a try all day long. But on replay, I thought he knocked it on. It certainly wasn't as clear as obvious as Gatland made it sound in the presser (which I had seen earlier). Hard to argue with it, anyway, pretty much a line call (I'd have been OK with it going the other way but I thought he knocked it on).
Pretty much my assessment, although I didn't see the knock on at the time. S'funny, there's been a bit of press over here emanating from the Wales management team about the non-try. The headline reads "Wales should have been awarded a try" says World Rugby. The meat of the story though is Howley saying Alain Rolland "of World Rugby" has confirmed in a phone call that the TMO made a mistake. Additionally World Rugby told BBC Sport Wales it "has clarified to the Wales team management... that the TMO made an error in the application of law during the England versus Wales match".
The governing body added: "In accordance with law 21.1 b, Wales should have been awarded a try as the Wales player grounded the ball." Note no mention of the knock on or not.
But of course no official statement from World Rugby. The bit that makes me laugh a bit though is this from Howley "I haven't spoken to any of the match officials. It's happened, it's disappointing that happens in professional sport. But we focus on the next two weeks and getting ready for Ireland."
If so, why keep banging on about it?
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@Catogrande probably ensuring it is on the record to pull out again at performance review time. Got to protect those bonus payments.
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I reckon he bounced it, but then watching again, I thought he scored it.
I've seen it 50 times now I reckon.
He certainly grounded it first, so it has to be a knock on or a score. On that basis, I chose knock on, but now looking at it again, maybe it is a score as perhaps it is always in contact with his hand until it touches the ground. But, it still looks like he bounced it to me when I watch the replay.
And I was watching expecting it to be a score - I support Wales all day over the Poms.
But, even with my red glasses on, I thought it wasn't totally legit.
But, then I can't exactly see the point where it isn't, so it actually must be a try.
Anyway, if world rugby has said it is a try, then that's fine with me.
