So sorry for all the Scottish fans.
PSA to leave ? To be replaced by who ? From the two decent french coaches I can think of, one is married to Toulouse and the other one is already Italy's coach.
Strangely our performance was much worse than against Wales but we managed to win, I still don't know how.
Evil boys punished !
Great idea to "punish" players for playing badly during the previous match, we saw the consequence today...I had the feeling tht we were playing without forwards. The rare periods when we had the ball, the Scots were simply marching on the Frenchs and got the ball back. When by chance one of our backs had the ball he looked like a terrified rabbit facing a roaring lion.
Also, does someone know if a team has already been dominated in line out to such an extent ?
Seriously, you can see this only in France. Where else a coach punish professional players for being outrageously dominated by a better team ? Like if those guys were not able to draw themselves the consequences of their bad display and fix it ?
A guy like Picamoles is not the first one uber-disappointed by his own performance ?! And not able to improve ?
No brain
What becomes more and more visible with that french team is the total absence of a player able to take intelligent decisions. The lack of decent halves on that tournament is a real pain, Parra-Trinh-Duc is from my point of view the only possible choice. The team does not actually play as a team, and today that was blatantly obvious. The Scottish XV was facing 15 guys that seemed to vaguely know each other but had apparently no idea of what was expected from them. of course, one can argue that when you take randomly a set of players that are not used to play together, you can't expect anything else that a bit of individual talent.
That's what we got from Dulin, Huget and curiously Bastareaud in a more muscled but very efficient fashion though, The other players will certainly be "punished" by PSA given their less than mediocre performance, after all Scots would have won that match without a bad performance of their scorers. Considering that even if the result is favorable to France following a course of events that still escapes any form of logic, the global display is worse than the previous match, that would be unfair to not do it.
The first consequence would be that Ireland would face not a B, but a french C team, which means that they can already start to celebrate their victory in the Tournament for that year (a well deserved one)...
Once again I feel really sad for Scotland, that's not only a tragedy for them but also for France: the FFR will now consider that with 3 victories this year the team improved and thus PSA will stay...
