[2021 Six Nations] France vs Scotland (26/03/21)

[Wichita]

If only it was raining in Rome a few weeks back, half your team wouldn't have gone out for Covid waffles and this game would already be in the bag.

In the bag, yes, but in whose bag, that is the question!

 

[BrokenWing]

Just my opinion, but I would say you had a marginally better chance when Scotland were won one, lost one as opposed to knowing what they need from the one game left to get them their best ever 6N finish.

 

[AlRums]

So who are Scotland actually missing due to only 5 being released from the PRL? Don't include injuries.

Maitland mainly

First time in my memory, without looking it up, Scotland are without a Gray either starting or on the bench

 

[Wichita]

Just my opinion, but I would say you had a marginally better chance when Scotland were won one, lost one as opposed to knowing what they need from the one game left to get them their best ever 6N finish.

True, plus I think we would have beaten England but for this 4-week hiatus, so we could be looking at our Grand Slam instead of having to beat Scotland by 21 points in Caledonian conditions.
Rome is a city with many highlights, but who would have thought waffles were one of them?
Roman waffles will be our undoing, just like the famous Blackpool Cassoulet, the Shanghai Haggis and the Honolulu Christmas pudding...

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

I wonder if it's gonna be like the England-France game at the end of the 2015 6-Nations when England needed to win by 26 points to win the ***le, played a wide-open attacking game, put 55 points on France but conceded 35 coz their attack-heavy gameplan left them open in defence. Scotland are certainly capable of piling up points if France throw caution to the wind.

And Scotland are certainly capable of winning this game. I don't think it's just a question of how much the French win by. Then again, France need to at least come close to winning the ***le, or else, as French Fan intimates, the wheels of their hype train could well-and-truly fall off. So with all that said...

France 55 Scotland 35. Sounds about right to me.

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

A good point from Ibanez there. Is the emotional high of the Wales win gonna result in a flat performance from France tonight?

 

[AlRums]

Personally I feel Scotland are more than capable of winning this by the 8 points they need

 

[Gavin]

vive la france

 

[Son of glyndwr]

True, plus I think we would have beaten England but for this 4-week hiatus, so we could be looking at our Grand Slam instead of having to beat Scotland by 21 points in Caledonian conditions.
Rome is a city with many highlights, but who would have thought waffles were one of them?
Roman waffles will be our undoing, just like the famous Blackpool Cassoulet, the Shanghai Haggis and the Honolulu Christmas pudding...

Come on the swe

True, plus I think we would have beaten England but for this 4-week hiatus, so we could be looking at our Grand Slam instead of having to beat Scotland by 21 points in Caledonian conditions.
Rome is a city with many highlights, but who would have thought waffles were one of them?
Roman waffles will be our undoing, just like the famous Blackpool Cassoulet, the Shanghai Haggis and the Honolulu Christmas pudding...

come on the sweaty socks !

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

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vive la france

Crikey! What are the odds?!

 

[AlRums]

Anybody need lyrics?

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

Great kick from Russell!

 

[AlRums]

What a kick

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

France in white always seems a bit wrong to me. I know their soldiers used to wear it etc, but it just feels too... English.

 

[AlRums]

France in white always seems a bit wrong to me. I know their soldiers used to wear it etc, but it just feels too... English.

Same for me when Scotland play in white

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

I never would have guessed that Fickou would become a hard nosed workhorse. Probably the best centre in the tournament and I don't say that lightly over the manliest man there's ever been in Rob Henshaw.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Dupont getting no help from his runners at all

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

Great take from Fickou!

 

[AlRums]

Well taken by fickou

 

[Not Eddie Jones]

Dupont took the ball out too early, should have just let the scrum keep going forwards and see if they could get the ball over the line. There's a weird obsession these days that the only purpose of a scrum is to get a penalty.