Team for France

[Big D]

Harum scarum start. Nice pop by Dell to Maitland, shame it wasn't Seymour or Hogg. Bombed try by Jones too!

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Just noticed that was Dell with the turnover and swan pass to maitland. Is he really a LH... Brilliant play.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

First scrum looked OK. Stable but then again the French aren't going to faff around with their own ball in that position.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Not quite sure how that is a pen. I thought we've been very well behaved at the ruck so far.

[Big D]

Clever by Jones to identify where the ball.ball . was and clamp.on there.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Superb defence. Need to be careful with the overlaps

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Clever by Jones to identify where the ball.ball . was and clamp.on there.

Dell & Jones bring a lot more nous to the team.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Well that was diabolical. Can't afford to knock on there.

[Big D]

RGray has started well

[Big D]

Strauss still carries too high for my liking

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Hoggy you absolute beauty. Where would we be without him?

[Big D]

Lovely by Jones.

The French 9 has to make Hogg do more there but who cares!!

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Game plan is a bit weird though. 14 phases of Laidlaw passing to a forward at first receiver.

[Big D]

Hoggy you absolute beauty. Where would we be without him?

To be fair it would have been a walk in for Watson had he passed it.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Really unlucky with the kick.

[Big D]

How long was that advantage for?

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Surely that is advantage over? Definite pen from Watson though.

France are hammering us on the attack, I'm quite relieved they're happy to kick for the posts.

[Big D]

They are playing well tbf.

[morepork]

Scottish defense right in their faces. Fantastic.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

France are very good today but very concerned about Peyper. We're not getting the rub of the green.

Scrum is starting to creak now. We can't make mistakes and allow them to scrum us off the park.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Brilliant defence but we can't allow their guys to make breaks like that. They're looking for the offload every time and it's only a matter of time until an ummarked runner is on their shoulder... very edgy stuff at the moment.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

What the hell just happened? Where did Laidlaw go?

[morepork]

Hey hey....new halfback....

[switchskier]

Offside line non-existant for both sides. French 13 very impressive.

[morepork]

Stupid.