Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host

[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

[Bones]

@Crucial I only saw the one replay but I thought she didn't go past the horizontal and landed on her back, it was her own momentum that tipped her too, it wasn't a tip tackle as such. Pretty much exactly what you'd show for textbook as legal.

[Machpants]

tackles by France (ESPN) 127/141, England 35/36

[Machpants]

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

@Crucial I only saw the one replay but I thought she didn't go past the horizontal and landed on her back, it was her own momentum that tipped her too, it wasn't a tip tackle as such. Pretty much exactly what you'd show for textbook as legal.

Sumo 'that sucks' yup

[Crucial]

Very strange decisions being made.
England are bulldozing France in the scrum. Get a scrum penalty in front of the posts and kick to a lineout.
Then get held up.
Could have had a penalty try.

[Machpants]

They are a really really boring team. But it works.

Getting bored of the English Comms continually saying how England player X y or z never makes mistakes, just after they made one. A complete circle jerk there

[Crucial]

England 74% possession after 60 and have 10 points.

[Crucial]

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

They are a really really boring team. But it works.

Getting bored of the English Comms continually saying how England player X y or z never makes mistakes, just after they made one. A complete circle jerk there

There’s a lot of “selling the game” in women’s rugby. You should hear the FPC games.
No worse than Oz league commentary really.

[Machpants]

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

England 74% possession after 60 and have 10 points.

Lame. But they'll still win.

I just figured out that the red dribbles around their collars are badly drawn St George's crosses

[antipodean]

Out of nowhere! Great try France.

[kiwiinmelb]

That was nice

[Machpants]

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

Out of nowhere! Great try France.

Out of sume possession in England half!

[Bones]

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

That was nice

Gorgeous line by the wing. It doesn't get much better than that.

[Crucial]

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

They are a really really boring team. But it works.

France keep taking them on up the middle and playing into their strengths. Fiji showed that if you run hard at the fringes or one and a half out you will make ground and their big forwards don’t look as flash