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2014 Six Nations: France vs England (Round 1)
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 621360" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>yep, as I've said before France won this match based on fitness. The English defenders are spent on that last Fickou try. I've made a distinction between *STAMINA* and then bulk/mass.</p><p>I gave the 2010 Aus example as just one time where we weren't nearly up to par with other nations.</p><p></p><p>But there's no denying other nations work harder, again, like England, Australia...and the gym culture is more intense. Man just look at Tom Wood, look at Marler in one year's change, look at Robshaw.</p><p>Of course we can compete in scrums being lighter, but we waste a lot more energy doing that. Remember the match against the Boks in November ? The guys even said before the match, Lauret in particular I recall, we'll contest a bit in the rucks but it's silly to waste too much energy in there, they're too huge, so we'll just get back into the defensive line. And that's exactly what we did.</p><p></p><p><strong>FrenchFan</strong>, you who constantly implicitly hints at being so divinely knowledgeable about this sport, surely you can grasp the notion that 110 even 120kg loosies and huge locks are going to have *some kind* of an impact at the breakdown that we just cannot deny physiologically speaking with 95kg/100kg specimens ? When Alberts comes in to clear out his rucks, there's NO WAY we can keep grip and turn the ball over. They shove us out of the way, we're sent back 3meters. And this happens over and over again. Then, the Saffa mauls are virtually unstoppable. They used them against every great nation, even got scores against NZ off them. When we tried a maul against them, we'd go backwards ! We don't have the mass, technique is great, but this is just too much and what do you do when they've got mass AND technique ? They even had an edge in the scrum. They bullied most of the game, and it's only because we've got such individual quality that we managed to survive and "only" lose by 9.</p><p>We're happy we've got the brutal Picamoles.....they've got 3 of those in front.</p><p></p><p>They said "flair won over muscle" when we beat England last Saturday. Yeah, we won by a couple of points at the last second. Imagine if we'd lost it, even by a single point. Imagine they get a penalty in the last 3min, win by a point. <u><strong>NOBODY</strong></u> would even mention flair, and everybody would be saying how we were subjected to wave after wave of white jerseys from min.30' to min.70'. And you wouldn't be talking about how technique is efficient too, you'd be saying "ahhh we lost at the breakdown, they out-muscled us, we need more couillus, more couillus !!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 621360, member: 57076"] yep, as I've said before France won this match based on fitness. The English defenders are spent on that last Fickou try. I've made a distinction between *STAMINA* and then bulk/mass. I gave the 2010 Aus example as just one time where we weren't nearly up to par with other nations. But there's no denying other nations work harder, again, like England, Australia...and the gym culture is more intense. Man just look at Tom Wood, look at Marler in one year's change, look at Robshaw. Of course we can compete in scrums being lighter, but we waste a lot more energy doing that. Remember the match against the Boks in November ? The guys even said before the match, Lauret in particular I recall, we'll contest a bit in the rucks but it's silly to waste too much energy in there, they're too huge, so we'll just get back into the defensive line. And that's exactly what we did. [B]FrenchFan[/B], you who constantly implicitly hints at being so divinely knowledgeable about this sport, surely you can grasp the notion that 110 even 120kg loosies and huge locks are going to have *some kind* of an impact at the breakdown that we just cannot deny physiologically speaking with 95kg/100kg specimens ? When Alberts comes in to clear out his rucks, there's NO WAY we can keep grip and turn the ball over. They shove us out of the way, we're sent back 3meters. And this happens over and over again. Then, the Saffa mauls are virtually unstoppable. They used them against every great nation, even got scores against NZ off them. When we tried a maul against them, we'd go backwards ! We don't have the mass, technique is great, but this is just too much and what do you do when they've got mass AND technique ? They even had an edge in the scrum. They bullied most of the game, and it's only because we've got such individual quality that we managed to survive and "only" lose by 9. We're happy we've got the brutal Picamoles.....they've got 3 of those in front. They said "flair won over muscle" when we beat England last Saturday. Yeah, we won by a couple of points at the last second. Imagine if we'd lost it, even by a single point. Imagine they get a penalty in the last 3min, win by a point. [U][B]NOBODY[/B][/U] would even mention flair, and everybody would be saying how we were subjected to wave after wave of white jerseys from min.30' to min.70'. And you wouldn't be talking about how technique is efficient too, you'd be saying "ahhh we lost at the breakdown, they out-muscled us, we need more couillus, more couillus !!" [/QUOTE]
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