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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 541578" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>France underperformed a lot in the 1999 pool stages. Struggled past Canada, just put 47 points on Namibia (not that impressive if you consider that Canada and Fiji put 67 and 72 points of them respectively) and then got lucky against Fiji with one of the most dismal refereeing performances of all time. They won all their games but didn't play as well as they can, which is why that upset against New Zealand came as a complete shock.</p><p></p><p>In 2007 they lost<strong> at home </strong>to Argentina too, and in 2011 gave a poor effort against New Zealand and lost to Tonga.</p><p></p><p>So apart from 2003 where they were exceptional in the pool stages, I would agree with Little Guy that they have underperformed in pool stages over the last few World Cups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 541578, member: 48703"] France underperformed a lot in the 1999 pool stages. Struggled past Canada, just put 47 points on Namibia (not that impressive if you consider that Canada and Fiji put 67 and 72 points of them respectively) and then got lucky against Fiji with one of the most dismal refereeing performances of all time. They won all their games but didn't play as well as they can, which is why that upset against New Zealand came as a complete shock. In 2007 they lost[B] at home [/B]to Argentina too, and in 2011 gave a poor effort against New Zealand and lost to Tonga. So apart from 2003 where they were exceptional in the pool stages, I would agree with Little Guy that they have underperformed in pool stages over the last few World Cups. [/QUOTE]
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