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<blockquote data-quote="Batsumy" data-source="post: 1214767" data-attributes="member: 38525">It was quite obvious that this match was a rehersal for Dublin in FG&#039;s head. The pace France has played in first half was an evidence of that, even the bench seems to be a rehersal for Dublin encounter. We tried to constantly let the ball alive, the priority was offloading quick to accelrate as much as we could. Obviously, Ireland wont let us develop this kind of game that easily but clearly, it was a live rehersal. I&#039;m not sure that the choice of players was so hugely important today, waht was important was our ability to accelerate the game collectively and on this perspective, we did rather well. The main issue of today is the 2 tries we take in first half, too easy, a bit like south africa in world cup, a bit like england 2 weeks ago, we are dominating and playing quick but then, we get caught too easily defensively.All in all, this is a positive weekend for France mainly because of the 2 bonus points not taken by Ireland and England, we are back a bit more within control of our future (even a small french win with defensive bonus point for ireland would keep us there), which was much less the case after the last weekend and we have increased substanstially our goal average compare to Ireland and England, which could be crucial in case of equal points at the endNow the toughest step: take on the green men in Dublin <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Batsumy, post: 1214767, member: 38525"] It was quite obvious that this match was a rehersal for Dublin in FG's head. The pace France has played in first half was an evidence of that, even the bench seems to be a rehersal for Dublin encounter. We tried to constantly let the ball alive, the priority was offloading quick to accelrate as much as we could. Obviously, Ireland wont let us develop this kind of game that easily but clearly, it was a live rehersal. I'm not sure that the choice of players was so hugely important today, waht was important was our ability to accelerate the game collectively and on this perspective, we did rather well. The main issue of today is the 2 tries we take in first half, too easy, a bit like south africa in world cup, a bit like england 2 weeks ago, we are dominating and playing quick but then, we get caught too easily defensively. All in all, this is a positive weekend for France mainly because of the 2 bonus points not taken by Ireland and England, we are back a bit more within control of our future (even a small french win with defensive bonus point for ireland would keep us there), which was much less the case after the last weekend and we have increased substanstially our goal average compare to Ireland and England, which could be crucial in case of equal points at the end Now the toughest step: take on the green men in Dublin :) [/QUOTE]

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