Well done France - good commitment to breakdowns and sensible options - play for territory and look what happens.
Basic rugby acumen won and lost this game - very poor options from key players. What was Fossies plan ?….. play in our own half as much as we can?
Key areas of concern:
Exits and playing in the right areas of the field. That's why the errors came - BB in particular is a piss poor liability - Dmac any day for me, or put Jordan at 15.
Clean outs were piss poor today - Ardie was average for him and shown to be light weight in contact in my opinion. Definitively need another loose forward as we had very little presence at the breakdown. And got players isolated far to much. Please let it be Blackadder.
Might be a bit of a hot take - but felt the ABs lost this more than French won it. France wont win this world cup.
Talea and Scooter our best today.
BB and tactics / options our worst. (Christie off the bench was also poor)