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2024 Guinness Six Nations
2014 6 Nations: Scotland vs France (Round 4)
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 625836" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>You're confusing many things. Let me clear out the points:</p><p></p><p>- I've never said France looked great in the first two games. I said I loved the tries a) we scored to beat England (one we couldn't have last year) and b) against Italy. We're impressive off broken play, although that's basically all we can manage atm because we're a bunch of highly talented mercenaries in a team with a terrible, terrible coaching staff and almost no gameplan/consistency/common culture.</p><p>- We beat England while still "playing bad". England are really a good team atm, kept saying this all year (2014) long. They're well established, young and hungry, consistent, good players, a fantastic coach. You don't beat that England side by being miserable, and though France fell asleep during the 30th-to-70th minute, our auto-pilot was good enough and added to our game vs Italy, it was *RELATIVELY* satisfying to watch, all the while keeping in mind I wanted to see a lot of improvement to come with each game.</p><p></p><p>- France playing mediocre Rugby, per se, doesn't change anything to the fact England play muscle ball. It's like you're all ashamed of that label although it's as limpid as sea water at some Mauritian resort. English fans take <u>great</u> offense to that each time and as I was 'challenged' to describe what England do on some thread recently, I laid it down and <strong>NOBODY</strong> had anything to say about it. No one contested it.</p><p>It's like this dirty little secret the English have that they don't want to see the reality as it is. I'm admitting France are a bunch of mercenaries with a shhit coach and little imagination, but that doesn't change the fact that England are forward-based with strong backs who break tackles and add to the high work rate, force-led assault that is the English attack.</p><p></p><p>And France aren't "clueless" in structured attacking play. That's exactly what they used to beat England at the last second, clutch and structured, precision, everything. And some other tries we <em>didn't</em> score were off fine movements with creativity, but we clearly still lack finishing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a world wide conspiracy. We hoped nobody would notice....but you..........you.............</p><p>you just had to open that big, wide trap of yours, didn't you Scotty boy ?....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 625836, member: 57076"] You're confusing many things. Let me clear out the points: - I've never said France looked great in the first two games. I said I loved the tries a) we scored to beat England (one we couldn't have last year) and b) against Italy. We're impressive off broken play, although that's basically all we can manage atm because we're a bunch of highly talented mercenaries in a team with a terrible, terrible coaching staff and almost no gameplan/consistency/common culture. - We beat England while still "playing bad". England are really a good team atm, kept saying this all year (2014) long. They're well established, young and hungry, consistent, good players, a fantastic coach. You don't beat that England side by being miserable, and though France fell asleep during the 30th-to-70th minute, our auto-pilot was good enough and added to our game vs Italy, it was *RELATIVELY* satisfying to watch, all the while keeping in mind I wanted to see a lot of improvement to come with each game. - France playing mediocre Rugby, per se, doesn't change anything to the fact England play muscle ball. It's like you're all ashamed of that label although it's as limpid as sea water at some Mauritian resort. English fans take [U]great[/U] offense to that each time and as I was 'challenged' to describe what England do on some thread recently, I laid it down and [B]NOBODY[/B] had anything to say about it. No one contested it. It's like this dirty little secret the English have that they don't want to see the reality as it is. I'm admitting France are a bunch of mercenaries with a shhit coach and little imagination, but that doesn't change the fact that England are forward-based with strong backs who break tackles and add to the high work rate, force-led assault that is the English attack. And France aren't "clueless" in structured attacking play. That's exactly what they used to beat England at the last second, clutch and structured, precision, everything. And some other tries we [I]didn't[/I] score were off fine movements with creativity, but we clearly still lack finishing. It's a world wide conspiracy. We hoped nobody would notice....but you..........you............. you just had to open that big, wide trap of yours, didn't you Scotty boy ?.... [/QUOTE]
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