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    Posted: 14 March 2026 at 8:39pm
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France 17 England 10

Try fest so far bonkers game 
In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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17 17...... 26 minutes nuts
In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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France 7 England 24 try bonus point 

35 mins 

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In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Bonkers game ...like a little if this championship 
Whatever happens England  playing  out of their skins..where
have they been  ? FRANCE 38 ENGLAND  39 .,61 mins
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What a game. I know they're the enemy and all that but England have never given up so fair play to them. 
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Wow. What a game. What a six nations. 
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Congratulations France what a crazy game afainst England   what a championship this has been going down to last kick to see who wins title 
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A ridiculous game. 
If Shaun Edwards had hair,  he'd be tearing it out with that a French  defensive  performance..awful.
Total credit to England  however   and just a final lack of discpline  led to the final French penalty and the championship. 
It proves though that this French side are not invincible,  as Scotland proved last week  , when you attack them aggressively 
When France attack however you have to be on your mettle,  because they are exhilarating.  
Congratulations  France, and well done England., providing a great advertisement for the sport 
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Fair play to England and Scotland for putting in such a big effort today, but in the end there is still a gap between them and the big 2 when it comes to the 6N.
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International rugby has moved onto a different level on the past few months.  Attacks are breaking really strong defences with relative easy.
Look at France, they deservedly won the 6 nations yet conceded 96 points and 13 tries in the last 2 matches, and that’s with Shaun Edwards in charge of defence, New Zealand conceded 39 points to Australia in New Zealand too.
This has been an outstanding 6 nations, 1133 tries scored in total in 15 matches and with the exception of some of the games in the opening 2 rounds all of the games have been very complete and fairly close affairs.
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Originally posted by Legendinmybathroom Legendinmybathroom wrote:

International rugby has moved onto a different level on the past few months.  Attacks are breaking really strong defences with relative easy.
Look at France, they deservedly won the 6 nations yet conceded 96 points and 13 tries in the last 2 matches, and that’s with Shaun Edwards in charge of defence, New Zealand conceded 39 points to Australia in New Zealand too.
This has been an outstanding 6 nations, 1133 tries scored in total in 15 matches and with the exception of some of the games in the opening 2 rounds all of the games have been very complete and fairly close affairs.

Agree with all that Legend ..outstanding 6 NATIONS.
EVERY  team can take somthing from it. Some tiny green shoots for Wales,  with Tandy clearly  getting  more from players than Gatland.  After an awful championship,   England have at least found a way to play and maybe stop the ridiculous  continual  kicking  game., probably  keeps Borthwick in a job. 
Scotland  playing away from Murrayfield is still a problem,  they could have lost all three games. Townsend  has however got the Scots playing a fast game, with forwards carrying  well a then attacking  and varying  the point of attack rapidly.  Well done  ! Ireland dismantled  the Scots yesterday,  and despite several front line forwards  absent,  proved they are not a spent force
They have unearthed new stars in Osborne and Balcombe.
France, the outstanding  side, a joy to watch. They have changed their tack and no,longer have " piano lifters " in the pack, but physical  but athletic  forwards.  England however, took them on up,front and it nearly worked..seconds away.
If France are to win the next world  cup they will need to overcome the physical  might of South Africa , who would  extricate  the maximum pressure in set pieces and elsewhere, and NOT make the simple errors England  made yesterday.
It will be intresting. 
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great kick to win it , great  gane lbb olayer of the 6 nations
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Originally posted by Legendinmybathroom Legendinmybathroom wrote:

International rugby has moved onto a different level on the past few months.  Attacks are breaking really strong defences with relative easy.
Look at France, they deservedly won the 6 nations yet conceded 96 points and 13 tries in the last 2 matches, and that’s with Shaun Edwards in charge of defence, New Zealand conceded 39 points to Australia in New Zealand too.
This has been an outstanding 6 nations, 1133 tries scored in total in 15 matches and with the exception of some of the games in the opening 2 rounds all of the games have been very complete and fairly close affairs.

Exactly this!  I was only saying the other day that the times of 17-12 being a solid score and grinding out wins seem to be gone.  If you're a neutral and you watched any 6N in the 2010's I could probably understand you not coming back, but this years was THE advert for rugby, especially to an American market. 

I felt like the reason we didn't beat Scotland (dodgy decisions aside) was that we just needed to score more, and in a few more games time we could be there.  Vs Italy it didn't slack off until 31-0 (i think) rather than the 19ish vs Scotland, so there was clear progression there in the need to score more.  Again if we'd put the ball through hands more I think we could have hit 50 vs Italy before they started their comeback. 

The champions conceded 96 points in 2 games, I can't imagine that has ever happened before. 

Attack is on top, nowadays it seems you need to go all out for scores rather than managing games.  I'm all for it 
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At the end of the day when you look at England we have to remember

Genge 31 
LCD 33
George 36
Davidson 34
Itoje 32
Spencer 34
Ford 33
Slade 33
Daly 34

That’s a lot of older players for a side that only managed to finish 5th in the 6N.

They need to start bringing through younger players if they want to get anywhere close to the big boys Ireland/France. You’d worry at this stage that it might turn into a two tier competition as if anything the gap between the two juggernauts and the rest is only widening.
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Originally posted by N@than N@than wrote:

At the end of the day when you look at England we have to remember

Genge 31 
LCD 33
George 36
Davidson 34
Itoje 32
Spencer 34
Ford 33
Slade 33
Daly 34

That’s a lot of older players for a side that only managed to finish 5th in the 6N.

They need to start bringing through younger players if they want to get anywhere close to the big boys Ireland/France. You’d worry at this stage that it might turn into a two tier competition as if anything the gap between the two juggernauts and the rest is only widening.

Great effort that nathan - fair play. I won't bother listing the ages of most of the star Irish players at this 6 nations like Gibson-Park, Beirne, McCloskey & in addition Conan, van der Flier Ringrose, Lowe, Furlong, Bealham, Aki. You may have found a suitable replacement going forward for one of those Lowe but thats about it as far as I can see. One thing I will concede though is that my faith in Farrell to keep the fall off as low as possible is more than I have in Borthwick despite his enormous talent pool. 
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Originally posted by GPR - Rochester GPR - Rochester wrote:

Originally posted by N@than N@than wrote:

At the end of the day when you look at England we have to remember

Genge 31 
LCD 33
George 36
Davidson 34
Itoje 32
Spencer 34
Ford 33
Slade 33
Daly 34

That’s a lot of older players for a side that only managed to finish 5th in the 6N.

They need to start bringing through younger players if they want to get anywhere close to the big boys Ireland/France. You’d worry at this stage that it might turn into a two tier competition as if anything the gap between the two juggernauts and the rest is only widening.

Great effort that nathan - fair play. I won't bother listing the ages of most of the star Irish players at this 6 nations like Gibson-Park, Beirne, McCloskey & in addition Conan, van der Flier Ringrose, Lowe, Furlong, Bealham, Aki. You may have found a suitable replacement going forward for one of those Lowe but thats about it as far as I can see. One thing I will concede though is that my faith in Farrell to keep the fall off as low as possible is more than I have in Borthwick despite his enormous talent pool. 

Key difference, Ireland finished 2nd in the 6N and have had 5 6N in a row of winning at least 4 games out of 5. Ireland don’t need to find replacements right now as they are still performing at a high level. 

England on the other hand…1 win out of 5. There is much more urgency to bring in younger players and transition these older guys out. Worth noting with England is not to confuse quantity with quality, they may have a deep pool of players but the reality is most of these young players wouldn’t get near the Ireland/France teams. Looking great against Newcastle in the prem is one thing, doing it at test level is another.
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