Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2007 France

[condor11]

whats the point of having a great loose trio if your centres are not good. i guess you can counter with your wingers and use your trio to dominate, the breakdown, that way but like you said the all blacks went into a shell and started kicking.

the centers (toeava and Smith) are definetly not up to the standard of say Carter, Mcallister, Muliaina(who was also carrying an injury and is probably our best center when fully fit, not as good as a he is at 15 but pretty good neverless) and our wingers

maybe Rico Gear should have been played at 13 but he was left at home

the main reason we lost was going away from our way of playing there is no doubt in my mind about that

its somehwat interesting that 13 is the position we have had most trouble with at wc´s

at least in the past 3, always using players out of position there like Cullen in 99 and i think macdonald in 03

back to the drawing board

[Gnafron]

Let's hope the ham seller Laporte (La voix de son maître :rolleyes:) won't read again La lettre de Guy Môquet to the players before the match. I'd rather have him to read Marc Bloch's (L')étrange défaite instead... :D

[impalemeplz]

Let's hope the ham seller Laporte (La voix de son maître :rolleyes:) won't read again La lettre de Guy Môquet to the players before the match. I'd rather have him to read Marc Bloch's (L')étrange défaite instead... :D

lets hope laporte has a few bloody marys with cayenne pepper and bouillon, to get blind, so he wont have to read anything. ;)

[Catel]

lets hope laporte has a few bloody marys with cayenne pepper and bouillon, to get blind, so he wont have to read anything. ;)
What a drink.
Share it with Wilkinson. No need for us he's able to see where are the posts.

[impalemeplz]

What a drink.
Share it with Wilkinson. No need for us he's able to see where are the posts.

JW looks like he has had a few himself. missed a penalty kick and drop goal.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

-:(-

[impalemeplz]

commiserations. too many mistakes and some desperate defence from the poms cost the french. not to mention, laporte, taking off betson.

:(

[Catfish]

It looks like England has surprised everyone, even themselves.

[Carefree 95]

OH yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What a game, what a team!!!!!!!!

ALLEZ ANGLETERRE!!! :D:D

[Gnafron]

As expected Laporte failed...

Loosing against England is simply unbearable...

[Carefree 95]

As expected Laporte failed...

Loosing against England is simply unbearable...

Mwhahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! :D

[impalemeplz]

i still cant get over laporte, not trusting betson, because of what happened 4 years ago :mad:

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[Pierre-Henri]

i still cant get over laporte, not trusting betson, because of what happened 4 years ago :mad:

And to use Chabal as 2nd row ... substitute second row ! That's a crime against rugby. That's blasphemy. That's foolishness. Chabal is third row, period.

I make a vow : i won't eat ham anymore. never.

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[Ali_reza]

:(

It was such a close game, but i was sure France was going to win.

And to use Chabal as 2nd row ... substitute second row ! That's a crime against rugby. That's blasphemy. That's foolishness. Chabal is third row, period.


How in the world can Laporte use Chabal as a substitute in all the games ?? His coaching really sucks. At least we'll get ridd of him now.

[Gnafron]

Remember our national team is as strong as our beloved president, Laporte dixit :rolleyes:

It reminds me a poem of the old chap Shelley:

OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[impalemeplz]

How in the world can Laporte use Chabal as a substitute in all the games ?? His coaching really sucks. At least we'll get ridd of him now.

please dont talk about laporte and subs or serge betson will break you down;)

[guignol]

his worst sub was michalak, who lost a couple of balls at crucial moments, blew a promising drop, and put an up and under right into england's hands when we had england outmanned on the right...

unless it was szarsewski, whose dive ended a good french advance, and gave wilkinson the penalty that changed the game.

but france wasted too many balls to blame it all on laporte, and 8 of england's points were outright gifts. which team deserved to win? neither.

[Catfish]

How in the world can Laporte use Chabal as a substitute in all the games ?? His coaching really sucks.
WHAT??? Chabal should have started every game unless he was injured.
I think Rugby is a sport that chemistry is the utmost of importance.

I think France not being in the Final is a serious upset/choke.

[Ali_reza]

WHAT??? Chabal should have started every game unless he was injured.
I think Rugby is a sport that chemistry is the utmost of importance.

I think France not being in the Final is a serious upset/choke.

Maybe i should'nt have wrote it that way. I meant Chabalou should've started all the games.

Hope he'll start the game against Argentina for the fun of it.