'13 WC | Group B | France 6-22 Samoa | Perpignan

[Harrigan]

Did you guys lose the feed? We did.

The difference in this game has been defence. Samoa know how to, France don't.

This sets up the match of the round next week though! Fiji/Samoa will be awesome.

England will beat France 60-0.

 

[Nothern]

We should start a book on how many Samoa will have to pick from for the quarter-final.

 

[royce10]

BJ has been an absolute beast for Samoa this tournament

One of the few players this tourno that has shown complete dominance over every opposite number.

 

[Storm13]

lol great pass

 

[tumbidragon]

lol

 

[African Monkey]

I thought Mose Masoe deserved man of the match personally. He destroyed the French through the middle.

 

[Nothern]

The ref was a shocker: almost lost it all by taking no decisive action for some awful "tackles".

 

[Bovrick]

JPB just put in the most amazingly awful pass I've ever seen. Add it to SBW, Rapana and Mataora for epic fails of the WC

 

[Joely01]

I'm bummed. I missed the first half of the game as it said it started at 7pm on this page. Damn it

 

[newman]

Don't they train at Catalans? Geez France have faded badly in the last 20 in every game.

 

[Tone83]

Did you guys lose the feed? We did.

The difference in this game has been defence. Samoa know how to, France don't.

This sets up the match of the round next week though! Fiji/Samoa will be awesome.

England will beat France 60-0.

I think france know how to defend, they just weigh on average about 60 kgs, while the smallest samoan is about 105 kgs. All things considered it was an incredibly valiant effort by the frogs.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Escar(ay!!) isn't it!!! That's what we call him in the UK anyway. Escar sounds just wrong!!

Yes it's Escaré ("escaray").

 

[newman]

Yes it's Escaré ("escaray").

Were you there Miguel?

 

[Bronco Rob]

Is there a more frustrating side to watch than France? They can mix it with most sides but just lack that polish to get over the top of them. And so many just plain indefensible errors, especially from players who are playing at a professional level and Remi Castry, every game he has a few errors in him, he is the Mark Minichello of France.

I thought Perenara had a shocker, how many infringments does a team have to have beofre the sin-bin comes in to play? I hate the non-use of the bin for foul play, how does a team on the receiving end benefit from just a penalty given their play-maker has been taken out? The side they play next week is the beneficiary not the team that the infringement against them.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

I hope who ever Samoa play in the up coming games that the team they face (hopefully one of the Big 3) smash the living shit out of the lot of them with as much dirty play as they so obviously love to dish out.

 

[Tone83]

I don't even think they were that dirty, the hits were only so bad because the frenchmen are so absurdly small. It reminded me of my grade 7 rugby team, where my mate reached puberty and turned into a man and was injuring about 6 kids per game, with their parents outraged on the sideline about his dirty play, but he was just doing normal tackles. Vagana (hope that doesn't get censored? Is that really his name?) said it best "just a case of a big islander running into a small frenchmen". Masoe seemed to try and pull out of his hit but just jogging chest first into the child-like french guy nearly killed him.

I think the french are just 35 odd years behind the times, it is no longer a small man's game. They look ridiculous out there and need to field bigger guys, even if it means they aren't as skilled.

 

[RedVee]

Escarr I think. Do you pronounce Espace Espac(ay)? Rhone is Rhon etc.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

I don't even think they were that dirty, the hits were only so bad because the frenchmen are so absurdly small. It reminded me of my grade 7 rugby team, where my mate reached puberty and turned into a man and was injuring about 6 kids per game, with their parents outraged on the sideline about his dirty play, but he was just doing normal tackles. Vagana (hope that doesn't get censored? Is that really his name?) said it best "just a case of a big islander running into a small frenchmen". Masoe seemed to try and pull out of his hit but just jogging chest first into the child-like french guy nearly killed him.

I think the french are just 35 odd years behind the times, it is no longer a small man's game. They look ridiculous out there and need to field bigger guys, even if it means they aren't as skilled.

I agree with all that, I was talking more about the cheap late crap, no need for it in any game.

 

[RedVee]

Escar(ay!!) isn't it!!! That's what we call him in the UK anyway. Escar sounds just wrong!!

Yes it's Escaré ("escaray").

Well there you go. I'm wrong again! Thought it was pronounced Escarr.

 

[African Monkey]

I don't even think they were that dirty, the hits were only so bad because the frenchmen are so absurdly small. It reminded me of my grade 7 rugby team, where my mate reached puberty and turned into a man and was injuring about 6 kids per game, with their parents outraged on the sideline about his dirty play, but he was just doing normal tackles. Vagana (hope that doesn't get censored? Is that really his name?) said it best "just a case of a big islander running into a small frenchmen". Masoe seemed to try and pull out of his hit but just jogging chest first into the child-like french guy nearly killed him.

I think the french are just 35 odd years behind the times, it is no longer a small man's game. They look ridiculous out there and need to field bigger guys, even if it means they aren't as skilled.

Exactly right. The tackles looked a lot worse that they actually were in slow motion. Didn't help with the crowd moaning and the halves staying down like they had been shot.