6N 2023 England v France

[MiketheSnow]

Can’t wait to hear the analysis

[Victor Meldrew]

Glorious by France. Outstanding display or rugby.

[MiketheSnow]

Would love Borthwick to say

They were great, we were shit

[sparky]

Worst England performance since the infamous 1998 Tour Of Hell?

[mantissanet]

Couple reffing question marks but nothing close to Blu vHur or Chfv Hld …just a Frog juggernaut….Allez les Bleus👌🏻

[Bovidae]

France were scarily good. The one thing I will say is that there is a drop-off in the quality of their forward subs, but the starters are class.

[MajorRage]

Fuck. Me. Drunk.

France were as good as England awful.

[Bones]

@Bovidae said in 6N 2023 England v France:

France were scarily good. The one thing I will say is that there is a drop-off in the quality of their forward subs, but the starters are class.

I'm not sure about that... France didn't exactly fall apart when subs were made.

[Billy Tell]

Time to discuss Englands place in 6N…

[Bovidae]

@Jailbreak7 said in 6N 2023 England v France:

One thing is for sure, we are going to have to be at our very best early on in our WC match against France. If they start well, we are going to have to be better.

Foster, Schmidt, and I believe Ryan as well, were at the game as part of their 6N recon.

[MiketheSnow]

[cgrant]

Interestingly, England U20s were thrashed by their French counterparts at the Recreation Ground (Bath) the day before (score 42-7 or something like that).

[Machpants]

@MiketheSnow said in 6N 2023 England v France:

That is top quality banter, well done that lady

[Catogrande]

France were bloody good today and well deserved, easy winners. But where were England? Had any of these guys met each other before? It was like they’d all been coached by different people. Absolutely abject.

And I thought we might just scrape a win. What do I know?

Fuck all it seems.

I need to drink quite a bit now.

[Duluth]

[gt12]

[Nepia]

That was a fun watch, glad I watched the full game instead of the highlights package.

[Duluth]

Englands cleanout work was terrible. Players were in position to make the clean but failed to make an impact

[antipodean]

It's amazing how static and slow the English forwards were. Ponderous describes their approach well, in contrast to the dynamism of their counterparts. Some sweet backline tries too.

When the French play well, they're going to be difficult to beat.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Catogrande said in 6N 2023 England v France:

France were bloody good today and well deserved, easy winners. But where were England? Had any of these guys met each other before? It was like they’d all been coached by different people. Absolutely abject.

And I thought we might just scrape a win. What do I know?

Fuck all it seems.

I need to drink quite a bit now.

The defence was dreadful and I have to ask how much of this is down to Sinfield. He's a great guy with a great rugby brain, but have England grabbed him too early in an attempt to get another Shaun Edwards?