France v Australia, Saturday 19 November

[Hugh Jarse]

McMahon has been quiet in the first stanza. Want to see some more of him in the second spell.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Foley grabs meat off a choice little inside pass from Sanchez.

AUS 20 FRA 11 after 44 minutes.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Genia conducted that goal line raid like a maestro

 

[TSR]

Foley is going well too. Front foot ball and runners in motion inside and outside him and he is picking his targets well. I'm looking for the show and go to come out of the kit back shortly.

 

[Kev]

Is it just me or is this Wallaby backline doing really well? Or are the French just bad

 

[Simon.]

And there's the proof. French scrum on their 5m line, they know they can't afford to give away a penalty so they scrum straight, as proven by the overhead cam, and all over a sudden a) the scrum stays up b) the Wallabies roll them backwards.

 

[KOB1987]

This is looking much better now.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Froggy go side to side from a halfway line out to score in the far corner.

They've gone upstairs, but doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.

AUS 20 FRA 16 after 55 minutes.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Looked like the ball was knocked back into 12 ahead of the player but the ref thought it was ok.

Godwin and Foley exposed in the move

 

[KOB1987]

Sorry, I put the mock on us! Carn wobs

 

[Simon.]

Can't agree with the comments here about Jackson getting the scrum decisions wrong. Slipper is very obviously being worked over and he is first to slide in and go to ground. Time for him to be replaced.

So far the Aussie backs have been quite impressive imo. Godwin having a lot of touches, especially at first receiver and his combination with Kuridrani is not looking too bad at all. Both wingers and fullback are going quite well also.

IMO he's being worked over because the French aren't straight. Perfect example in that scrum on their 5m line, when they do scrum straight he doesn't get worked over, and the Aussie scrum was the one going forward.

 

[swingpass]

Need to get McMahon off hes hobbling around on his bad ankle

 

[saulityvi]

Kuridrani woww

 

[Hugh Jarse]

TK may have grabbed a pie in the corner, and TMO confirms so. Micrometres in it.

Set up from a nice sniping run by Sanchez who is playing very well today.

AUS 25 FRA 16 after the conversion drifts just wide. 58 minutes gone.

 

[KOB1987]

Mind boggling skill from TK there

 

[swingpass]

TK u star

 

[amirite]

One would think seeing as Godwin was not part of the ruck, and the clean out on him WAY past the ball opened the hole France scored in, that their try would've been called back. Not to mention their first try the winger clearly picked it up in front of the ball.

Pretty shambolic for mine, particularly when the video ref watched it 10 times and has the right to call it.

 

[Merrow]

Awesome TK!!

 

[Strewthcobber]

Douglas is not having a great game

 

[TOCC]

Does anyone else here think speight is having a really good game?

He is a liability in defence