Poms vs Frogs

No score after 10. Bit stormy over here to I may have to log off if it gets worse.

Hi Paks

Howzit Plum.

Ramos misses a pretty straight kick. Not something you see every day.

LOL, GOAT Anton Dup drops it with an open tryline. By Ou Maaik's Esterhuizen standards that disqualifies him from ever being considered good again.

And now Penaud knocks it with the tryline beckoning. France cutting England some slack.

Same as last week, England hanging in there against a superior team. 

been a tad lucky though

England's scrum looks better than France's

Two handling errors by two of the top players in the world stop French tries.     

Great try by France.

It was coming for a while.

I'm not liking how England are allowing an open game.

They need to be playing the set piece game and frustrating France, but instead they seem to want to out-skill France...not gonna happen

Smith again the catalyst for England, just couldn't get the pass to his man with the French dude interfering.

England almost there, but as always, not quite.

Nice game so far to be fair.

Lawrence through at last! Should be 7.

YES!!!!!!!!

A pure heart try.

Go England!

Smash the stupid frogs!!!

And all of that came from the break by Smith.

That handoff on Ramos, haha.

And now England can kick a deep penalty and take a lineout 

Penaud blocking the porn stache and that is definitely worth a penalty. Should have been red. Nobody obstructs The Stache.

England absorbed a ton of pressure in that half and managed to end it even with France.

But now it's whether they will be able to find that 5th gear in the last 20.

France don't look rattled but they look far from comfortable.

Yeah this is England's crunch period where they tend to fall away. I'd venture they need to score first in the second.

They almost kept up with Ireland last week but for Murley...lol 

That was some funny stuff

BTW, Pakie...I think we watch more rugby than anybody on this site.

Lol that was crazy!

End to end with plenty of mistakes but France are gonna punish England if they keep doing that.

Smith isn't a 15.

He's made a few suspect kicks that have just handed possession to France.

I like how Itoje has matured over the years. 

Yes this idea that 10 and 15 is automatically interchangeable is nonsense.

Fuck, scrum penalty France.

BTW, Pakie...I think we watch more rugby than anybody on this site.

Not sure, I don't watch that much. Only the really interesting stuff. I get bored quickly with an iffy game.

13-7, France now drawing clear. England need to score.

Dumb option from Fin back inside to Curry, he had a wall ahead of him.

Try England! The kick up by Fin gathered by Freeman, steps Antontjie, scores.

YES!!!!!

England hits right back after going 6 point behind.

If they slot the conversion they'll take the lead!

Smith misses it.

12-13 to France with 20 to go

Eish, Marcus badly hooks the conversion.

Another penalty coming for France. England need more discipline. Advantage may have cancelled it now as France attacks near the England line.

And Penaud in. Easy in the end. Phase phase score.

And it's Frances turn to score.

stupid frogs.

Well worked score in the corner though.

Ramos misses the conversion 

12-18 France

Ramos misses, 18-12

The Stache definitely should have stayed wide on Penaud there, the inside man was tackled.

Some great lines by England as they rumble towards the line before a misunderstanding between Marcus and Mitchell tanks it.

Another hoist by Marcus Smith goes too deep. Had that come down just outside the 22 it could have been a bit of good.