Best French performance so far was the gendarmerie band.

They played a blinder

Ten quick tries and we're right back in this

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66-12 and some great rugby by England. France were awful in the first half, but at least they showed brief glimpses of what they can do in the second half.
Some bookies were offering England -88 at odds on at half time. Cocky gets.

When will the FFR admit appointing Goulding was a monumental error?

Who would be your choice?

Kear!

Frankly I think BG made the right squad selection and when you see that we have 13 international standard players, need to find 17 for the squad and 4 were injured ... you can see why we got beat.

Come the summer, if all fit we would have Raguin, Pelo, Greenshields, Elima, Fakir and Ferriol, which would make for a far more even matchup.

I was disappointed with England. I think we let the French back into the game and took our foot off the pedal.
That is going to get us crucified in the 4 nations.

I totally agree with you

James Wynne. Dean Bosnich. Dumas. Anyone but a myopic northerner with a questionable record and who spent the entirety of his first statement as French coach talking about himself and his detractors as opposed to the job in hand. The man's a prat who clearly isn't good enough. I refuse to believe he was the best candidate available.

Using northerner as an insult?


To be fair to Robert, he's spent large parts of his interviews defending himself because the attitude of the journalists and a lot of the questions asked have seemed to have been all about ridiculing him.
The start of the interview when he got the job from Jack Dearden on Radio Manchester '[iBobbie, can you believe it? cos we can't![/i' cue studio full of laughter

Dunno about that, I think we should be looking for a good SL coach with a Cup pedigree. You named some decent LER coaches, but I think they would feel more pressured to play a short-term strategy than a long goal of development. No one expects BG to do well, so if he loses matches developing talent then there's no outrage.

From the SL I would think Kear, Morgan and Potter would be up on my list, but I wouldn't say no to Matterson or Agar and even (I feel unclean) McDermott (boo!) or Noble (gah).

running before walking springs to mind, how many of those supporters would be blamed for never watching a RL "test" again after that?

and if we learned anything we learned that Micheal Murcia should NEVER be allowed in an internatonal jersey again. So not all lost.

To be honest, I think that could be said for most of them whether France had lost or not.
5 days till Barcelona!!!

I dunno, some of the oohs and aahhs from the crowd were encourageing and they cant have failed to enjoy some of the rugby played by England. Just cant imagine the french public enjoying being dicked by England

you going?

Lots of the people had free tickets. How many will turn up when they find out they have to pay?
On a more positive note, I thought England played some good open rugby.
France were far from full strength and did well considering that first half.

Fair point, and another reason why the game should have been in Toulouse/Perpignan 7k with rakes of free tickets is poor IMO



yeah, the game almost went the other way to what I was hoping, I felt a good result would be score under 40 against france and a decent 1st half so I suppose i cant moan too much........probably will do though!

One bookie was offering 4/5 France +88 at half time. I almost snatched their hand off as I thought 'No way can France play as badly', but I stuck with my England -32



Two other Catalonia internationals are confirmed for the summer. An end of season tour to UK is being talked about.

The point of "in paris" was to get th media to mention it and the free tickets to be sure the stdium wasn't empty. Tht was as much of a success as possible. No point reeling in Parisian RL fans, there's no club side for them to follow!

Shame that, though Bartheua apparently did okay so that's one for the future.

no point in reeling in Parisians if they are going to be treated to a steamrollering by England.

He did, didnt have a massive amount to do but he put himself about a bit and put Bosc in a good position to create the second try with a huuuuuuuge long pass, after a very poor initial ball to him.