Wales vs France: Six Nations live scores, blog

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DuPont runs like a bull at you. Faf is more like a pitbull.

France look really good. There were 30 minute periods in the WC where they looked like the best team in the world in terms of their attack from their back 6. Now their forwards are strong especially defensively. Wales fought hard to stay in it, but looked outclassed... To be honest I'm still annoyed at Jones and Farrell's arrogant whinging and sulking at their own effort a few weeks back when they were well beaten by the French. No credit was given to the team that outplayed them.

Both of them are great, but I can't recall seeing them smashing people in the tackle as DuPont does. As Ringside writes above, that tackle DuPont did at the end of the first half when France was under the pump with 14 men was just ridiculous. He drove the poor Welsh fella at least 15 meters backward.

On try-scoring plays, they certainly can rule on forward passes. That has not changed.

The only annoying bit was having to suffer the two biased clown commentators on the BEIN feed. From the whistle they banged on repeatedly how France would collapse in a heap in the last quarter and the less said about the “guaranteed penalty try” the better. They made our beloved Phil Kearns and Drew Mitchel sound “the fairest in the land” in comparison. I watched the same feed. And yes, their bias was off the chart.

VVO in fact !!!

"Is DuPont the hardest tackling scrumhalf ever? " NVFS, consider Faf de Klerk ? I would also look at Gareth Edwards from years ago.

I might be wrong, but I didn’t think TMOS could rule on forward passes anyways, only foul play?

Have to agree, especially banging on about the penalty try. I didn’t have any skin in the game and was happy with the decision. The better team won on the day which is what any of us really want. And if Dan Biggar spent more time playing the game and honing his craft instead of bitching and whining and trying to milk penalties, Wales would do a heck of a lot better.

Kiwi, interesting to compare that "forward pass" ruling with the allowed try in the Rebels vs Sharks match by M.Tambwe off a "non-forward" pass. France was very likely robbed of a fair try but came back and scored a meat pie shortly after. Earlier the Sharks somehow were awarded the try off a blatant forward pass. The TMO's try to ascertain whether the pass left the hand going backwards (relative to motion of the hand) which is fair enough but some seem to take into account the direction the bloke passing the ball was facing as he released the pill whereas others don't. I don't know that for certain but it's the only thing that makes sense of some field/TMO rulings.

Damn, I didn't know this blog was on. :unhappy: I don't see France as "lucky" at all, for mine the best team won by far so all is good. Wales lost because they went crazy with their territory game, kick the pill downstream and hope you end up in French 22 with the ball. Over and over and over again. They actually ran the ball near the end and didn't look too bad at all. The French played a smarter and varied game, running with devastating effect at times and kicking at other times to keep the Wales back 3 honest. The referee was pretty good, he was a mite lenient with Wales ruck tactics in the 1st half but he was harder on them in the 2nd half. So even though they got the rub of the penalties, didn't the Welsh crybabies have a giant sulk at full time? On this form France will be within the top 3 sides by the time of the next RWC. The only annoying bit was having to suffer the two biased clown commentators on the BEIN feed. From the whistle they banged on repeatedly how France would collapse in a heap in the last quarter and the less said about the "guaranteed penalty try" the better. They made our beloved Phil Kearns and Drew Mitchel sound "the fairest in the land" in comparison.

Thought France were unlucky with that forward pass ruling before their second try. That would have been an amazing try.

Even though this year isn't a British & Irish Lions tour year (the Lions go to South Africa in 2021), out of the 4 Home Unions (England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland), looking ahead to 2021, who do you think would come into consideration when the Lions selectors sit down to pick the squad after the 2021 Six Nations?

Good to hear partyhat

Part of it though is that this Welsh team are a very different beast without Gatland. Shows the importance of having a competent coach.

He seemed very chilled (nothing like enraged person the snippets from the coaching box always told us) And also he was v perceptive about the game and had interesting thoughts/insights about it :thumbup:

Partyhat, enlighten us. What did the Randwick Rooster have to say?

Agree

I would be delighted. Them fading means they could get better which I think says a lot for the team they have there.