2023 Six Nations

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Nice try for Wales
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He got a kick in the balls there
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That's only going to piss the French off
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Then the inevitable feck up
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Wales deserve a lot of credit for this response
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ffs that's a brilliant kick
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Great try tbh
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He was yards infront of the kicker tbh
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fishfoodie wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:09 pm He got a kick in the balls there
That's entertainment.
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Amazing crowd and atmosphere for a Ux game.
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:17 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:09 pm He got a kick in the balls there
That's entertainment.
the woman co-commentator was certainly sniggering, as she knew what had happened, while the lead commentator somehow thought someone had trod on his foot :grin:
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you just can't give possession to this tadpole team
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:21 pm Amazing crowd and atmosphere for a Ux game.
Crowds are pretty good for the tournament full stop, the exceptions are the games at Scotstoun and the game we hosted at the Stoop
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Nouchi at it again with one handed offloads.
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Rapido
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C69 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:31 pmRapido
He's a quick lad. Oddly, he's looked better in T14 for UBB than in this comp.
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:32 pm
C69 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:31 pmRapido
He's a quick lad. Oddly, he's looked better in T14 for UBB than in this comp.
Are the players coming from a wide variety of clubs, or are they primarily coming from the big T14 squads ?
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Lovely try but the maul was very illegal from France.
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fishfoodie wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:36 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:32 pm
C69 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:31 pmRapido
He's a quick lad. Oddly, he's looked better in T14 for UBB than in this comp.
Are the players coming from a wide variety of clubs, or are they primarily coming from the big T14 squads ?
Most of these are on T14 books and several are getting T14 game time: it's the latter that is the difference here.
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Been an entertaining mix of brute force and beauty but nothing resembling a competition.
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:39 pm Been an entertaining mix of brute force and beauty but nothing resembling a competition.
Wales losing half a back division and the lack of the red card didn't help.

That said France are massive and athletic and well coached.


That is a red
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Nasty
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And a red.

{or not}
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This ref has bottled 2 red cards.

Feck player safety
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:43 pm And a red.
As I said earlier, not with this ref.
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C69 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:44 pm This ref has bottled 2 red cards.

Feck player safety
On replay it's still a red for me but I can see why he mitigated unlike the 1st one.
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Superb rugby.
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France were superb.

But if this ref is allowed to officiate again there could be some serious injuries. I do not think he took player safety seriously at all.

He bottled the red cards and allowed some very dangerous elbows to the head to go unpunished.

France don't even need to go out to maim their opponents. Wales lost 2 players to those yellows.
Having lost a player in the warm up.

The only positive for Wales was Morse, he was excellent.
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C69 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:54 pm France were superb.

But if this ref is allowed to officiate again there could be some serious injuries. I do not think he took player safety seriously at all.

He bottled the red cards and allowed some very dangerous elbows to the head to go unpunished.

France don't even need to go out to maim their opponents. Wales lost 2 players to those yellows.
Having lost a player in the warm up.

The only positive for Wales was Morse, he was excellent.
I wonder if the laws need to be looked at in regards braced elbow v leading elbow because the outcome is the same in most cases.

20 years ago, the ref's leniency may have been okay because these grade players looked like kids. But now they are men in everything bar experience.
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:57 pm
C69 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:54 pm France were superb.

But if this ref is allowed to officiate again there could be some serious injuries. I do not think he took player safety seriously at all.

He bottled the red cards and allowed some very dangerous elbows to the head to go unpunished.

France don't even need to go out to maim their opponents. Wales lost 2 players to those yellows.
Having lost a player in the warm up.

The only positive for Wales was Morse, he was excellent.
I wonder if the laws need to be looked at in regards braced elbow v leading elbow because the outcome is the same in most cases.

20 years ago, the ref's leniency may have been okay because these grade players looked like kids. But now they are men in everything bar experience.
Tbh the Welsh looked like Kids the French forwards looked like 30 year olds.
The French backs looked skillful and fast and very well drilled.

The French discipline and cheap shots detracted from their brilliance.
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Openside wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:00 pm Also Genge penalty that led to Irelands try was utterly mystifying , just bizarre
He took out Ryan without the ball and pushed into a ruck. Stone cold peno. Replays made it look like Gibson park but peyper said “No, not that one”. England’s discipline was fairly poor throughout. The YC par for the course really.
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