This could be the 2nd most competitive match of the Quarter Finals.

I would not count out England at this stage. The England team contains a lot of experienced internationals, several of whom have NRL experience. The England team stands a very good chance of winning this one.

Stands a very good chance??? have you been out in the grape fields all day?

Yep. England really have to give their all time best performance to win this one.
Good luck England

Be a drop goal in it!!!

yeah i think the french forwards will have to much for the small soft english pack.

Only won against PNG because it was blowing like a bar-steward & the goal kicker couldnt hold his nerve. if England struggle against them it wont be worth us going through to the semis. imo

You do make me chuckle at times! A few bites too!

Going the game myself and not sure what I want from it... a close game would be more entertaining but anything other than a good victory will be getting me more worried for next week

Englands challenge will be to better the scores of NZ and Aus in their Q-F's - I expect the result will be somewhere in between. At least, it should be. France are poor.

France are poor I would be surprised if this isn't a 70 point win for England

The wife came home last night with two tickets for an amateur dramatic showing of Hello Dolly in Bingley...........for tonight at 7.30

Sometimes I could swing for her

England need to send a statement tonight. NZ and OZ have with their performances, time for us. If we concede more than one try i will be very disappointed, France have once scored 2 all tournament. I expect more than a 30+ win.

HaHa Start an argument its the only answer.

An amateur performance of Hello Dolly, and it's on in Bingley?

It's always been the dream of theatre goers in London and Paris to make the trip to Bingley for a cultural night out.



You can't knock that one back, can you?

The cast would probably put up a better fight than France are about to

They don't need to send a statement tonight, any win will do, like wise in the following 2 games. It's about winning and winning only.

McIlorum starting at 9 with Roby on the bench.
S.Burgess shifted to the second row, Ferres on the bench.

I'll go for....England 40 France 12 (Surely France can produce one half decent performance) if not 60+ for us.

Hope france dont roll over and give up if we get a couple of early tries. We could do with a tough game and a bit of a test at least. Unfortunately I havent seen anything to suggest they can keep the difference to less than 40. No matter how much the BBC are building it up as though theres 2 fairly even teams about to take the pitch (I understand they have to do that)

Good crowd!

The French have scored

Oh dear! Our kicking needs to be deeper.

Micky Mac and Charnley playing there way out of the team

Watch how slow Micky is passing the ball. Also dropped off a tackle.

And too many penalties.

Tackling is very sloppy

Anyone still think our centres can defend? France have tagetted both sides early with success.