Keystone Kops 43 Fifteen Stooges 31
Feb. 13th, 2006 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeetWhat an utterly crap game of rugby! All tapes, disks or other recordings of this game should be erased lest any impressionable young rugby player should see them. Meanwhile large quantities of gorm should be emergency airlifted to both Paris and Dublin. This was supposed to be a game between two of the world's top ten sides amd it was riddled with basic errors from beginning to end; crap tackling, woeful passing, missed touch kicks and hands courtesy of Kerrygold. All in all, a load of rubbish.
So can we learn anything from this debacle? There were a few positives. The French backs looked pretty clinical in both attack and defence for the first hour. I particularly liked their running lines from deep. Their forwards look very vulnerable to the rolling maul (as they did against Scotland). That has to be very good news for England. The Irish backs definitely lack pace. Rougerie totally did Murphy. That should have the Welsh salivating. O'Driscoll was pretty free with his boots again. I'd lack to see him stuck at the bottom of a ruck against England. It would be nice to see the likes of Sheridan and Grewcock give him a taste of his own medicine.
So can we learn anything from this debacle? There were a few positives. The French backs looked pretty clinical in both attack and defence for the first hour. I particularly liked their running lines from deep. Their forwards look very vulnerable to the rolling maul (as they did against Scotland). That has to be very good news for England. The Irish backs definitely lack pace. Rougerie totally did Murphy. That should have the Welsh salivating. O'Driscoll was pretty free with his boots again. I'd lack to see him stuck at the bottom of a ruck against England. It would be nice to see the likes of Sheridan and Grewcock give him a taste of his own medicine.
