Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host

[kiwiinmelb]

Pom pack has an ominous look to them compared to the other ladies sides

[KiwiMurph]

French wingers have hands like feet.

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

French wingers have hands like feet.

I hope the ferns are ready for a lot of kicking

[Machpants]

And upright tackling,, the French are risking cards

[Crucial]

Watching this Blue team closely. According to Rugby World Cup history we will play them in the final.

[Machpants]

Man England's attack is so blunt, quite lame. But they can grind into points.

[Bones]

@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

Man England's attack is so blunt, quite lame. But they can grind into points.

That French defence is pretty impressive. Midfield are deadly.

[Crucial]

@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

Man England's attack is so blunt, quite lame. But they can grind into points.

I wish the ref would pick up on the way that England send a cleaner straight past the side of the tackle to take out arriving defenders.

[Bones]

@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

Man England's attack is so blunt, quite lame. But they can grind into points.

I wish the ref would pick up on the way that England send a cleaner straight past the side of the tackle to take out arriving defenders.

That seems pretty common in women's rugby, almost normal.

[Crucial]

@Bones said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

Man England's attack is so blunt, quite lame. But they can grind into points.

I wish the ref would pick up on the way that England send a cleaner straight past the side of the tackle to take out arriving defenders.

That seems pretty common in women's rugby, almost normal.

The teams doing it or the refs ignoring it?

[Machpants]

English girls can actually kick, pretty much the only team I've seen

[Bones]

@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

@Bones said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

Man England's attack is so blunt, quite lame. But they can grind into points.

I wish the ref would pick up on the way that England send a cleaner straight past the side of the tackle to take out arriving defenders.

That seems pretty common in women's rugby, almost normal.

The teams doing it or the refs ignoring it?

Both. Noticed it a lot in the previous games today.

[Bones]

@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

English girls can actually kick, pretty much the only team I've seen

The French 10 just did a kick Hunt could only dream of!

[Bones]

French 12 rocks. I think she's punished half the English team already.

[Machpants]

What a bollocks call on the tackle

[Crucial]

@Bones said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

French 12 rocks. I think she's punished half the English team already.

Just got pinged for a perfectly safe tackle.

[antipodean]

Fancy penalising that tackle. No injury, no risk of injury and the crowd loved it.

[Bones]

Irish ref innit.

Another thing that seems to be ignored and done quite regularly by the British teams is players arriving at the side of the ruck and starting straight but cleaning out across the ruck, or around the corner.

[Machpants]

10-0 to the orcettes going into half time. Must be 120 tackles by France

[Crucial]

@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

Fancy penalising that tackle. No injury, no risk of injury and the crowd loved it.

I always thought that the interpretation was that you had to bring the player to ground and not drop or drive the upper body.
That was just a good textbook smash that made the tackled player’s feet go up