RWC: France V Canada (18-09-2011, 20:30)

[Seaton]

Oooof, Cudmore off for Canada.

25-19 to France

Fairhurst off, boooooo sack Crowely!

Now van de Merwe injured, deary me...

 

[Jman227]

Good defense Canada!

 

[poopiepeople]

oh no, not DTH...

 

[Jman227]

Omfg

 

[yage]

Very unlucky... think it will be very very hard for Canada to claw back now, but great job none the less. Big loss in DTH.. hope it isn't serious.

 

[Canucks]

So France can not throw straight but the second canada does it, it's a free kick.

Thanks Joubert.

 

[Seaton]

Canada starting to make the wrong decisions in attack now, not keeping their cool and trying to force it.

You've got enough time, you can doooooo eeeeet!!!

 

[poopiepeople]

Nice mutton chops...

 

[Tricia McMillan]

Just a few minutes left and still only 13 points in it. Much closer than I expected prior to kickoff, though I can understand perfectly if Canadian fans might be a bit frustrated with some of the things that have happened in this match.

 

[poopiepeople]

The only upside of this is that I can say Canada will beat Japan and be confident about it.

Well not the only, but still...

 

[Seaton]

Ah well, good show by Canada, last time I was able to watch them were the EOYTs a season or 2 ago, where they got trounced.

Parra has put in a good kicking display today, if if if the kickes were the other way around, if, if, if...

 

[Tricia McMillan]

Honestly, France deserved the win but I don't think they deserved the bonus point. 46-19 doesn't really reflect the fact that the match wasn't exactly a blowout.

 

[Muzzy]

this has been the main difference between the 2nd tier and top tier nations, teams like canada, georgia, romania, japan against france are mostly relying on the oppositions mistakes rather than creating their own attack, thats why were able to compete for the first 3 quarters, but once the opposition stop making the needless errors and get their act together they have run away with it.

and craig joubert is the best referee in rugby

canada played great though, they played to their strengths and have shown great defence and forward play, but when they get their attack as good as the rest of their game, then they'll be a force in rugby

 

[LittleGuy]

The guys looked tired, and the some of the subs didn't acquit themselves well in the last 10 minutes, pretty gutted about the scoreline, especially that last French try.

 

[Aout]

We were poor, but Canada was lucky not to get at least 1 player sin binned.

 

[ACT1NUP]

Stink that rugbys an 80m game. Imagine if it were 60m, be a few more upsets from the minnows who do well up until that point.

 

[Canucks]

I'm very proud of Canada.

That being said, Joubert is a joke. Clear bias for France at points in the match. I hate to sound like sour grapes as France still would've won but he was extremely inconsistent in his calls namely the ruck infringements at the end of the 1st and that lovely call on Pritchard. At points he seemed to focus on what colour the jersey was and then on the infringement.

France was excellent a recycling that ball and Parra was automatic with the kicking. Picamoles is a monster.

For Canada, I think if we get some of our defensive lapses under control we will see some of these scores a lot closer. Pritchard's kicking today was a disapointment but he was excellent under the high ball. I think France knows they played a rugby game today. Obviously the conditions helped but Canada played with a ton of heart and things only look brighter in the future. I was really impressed with Smith, was rock solid tonight and I hope DTH is ok and that it was just a bad stinger.

As well, due to the conditions there wasn't much creativity with the ball on either team, I will still take it though.

If you don't count the last 2 tries against the 2nd string Canadian players out there the score was 32-19. Not a bad result but France needed that bonus point and went for it at the end.

 

[Phlegm & Poise]

Is it just me, or do the referees seem to pick up on penalties in favor of the bigger nations just a little more?

Nice to see Parra finally miss a kick :lol:. I watch a lot of French Top 14, the man has a laser guided foot

That kicking boot was great today, 8 out of 9. A great weapon in knock-out rugby, it automatically makes France dangerous. If it is to be an England - France quarter, England's discipline needs to improve tenfold as Flood will do well to outkick his counterpart.

 

[james5000]

this has been the main difference between the 2nd tier and top tier nations, teams like canada, georgia, romania, japan against france are mostly relying on the oppositions mistakes rather than creating their own attack, thats why were able to compete for the first 3 quarters, but once the opposition stop making the needless errors and get their act together they have run away with it.

and craig joubert is the best referee in rugby

canada played great though, they played to their strengths and have shown great defence and forward play, but when they get their attack as good as the rest of their game, then they'll be a force in rugby

I agree with this, Canada were playing for penalties and trying to do the dirty work in the forwards to grind France down. The only way they were competing for 60minutes was because France played their game, (France were so boring for the first 60 mins, didn't spread the ball more than a couple of times). In the last 20 minutes fatigue and french flair took over. As soon as France spread the ball they looked very very good, a few classes above Canada.

 

[Canucks]

We were poor, but Canada was lucky not to get at least 1 player sin binned.

What did we do to get sin binned?
The only two remotely binnable offenses was Pritchard showing he's the strongest player in the world by making Clerc do a flying somersault with only a slight nudge and DTH has incidental contact with Traille after a kicke in which Traille decided to stay down for bit looking for a bit of sympathy.


I also find funny that every team a lesser team takes it to a better team, a lot people try to say the better team played poorly. Australia looked like they tried hard the other day. South Africa looked like they tried against wales. England looked like they tried very hard against Argentina.

It's called we're getting better.