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I’m speechless. I have no idea what to say after that match. The first half was so horrible. Unless you were French^[1] of course. What is with Ireland and first halves in France? Remember 2 years ago? Although this was worst, because right up to the final whistle the hope was there.

And let me tell you hope is a killer.

French fuckers.

Still, lets look at the positives; the scrum. Yes, I said the scrum, imagine that, an Ireland scrum that was going forward. That dominated the French pack! That led to a penalty try. The forward pack had a great second half. ROG too had a great game, kept us in touch, barely, in the first half. But on the wings^[2] we’re a bit “who’s supposed to be playing there”. I also think that the lineout, at first, wasn’t great, but it did improve as the match went on. BOD was his usual hard-working self, but Trimble was very quiet. I don’t think he is good enough for the likes of France. Interesting to see who O’Sullivan will select for the next match against Scotland.

Sport really is a roller-coaster isn’t it?

Final score, btw, was France 26 - Ireland 21 and I officially hate Vincent Clerc.

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Talk about your bloody clichés. Was that game of rugby ever a game of two halves?

My first half commentary could be summarised as “fucking, french fuckers, and fucking stupid silly mistakes”, or to reduce that even further: FUCK!”

Lets look at the score timeline:

• 3 min.s and the french score a try 5-0
• 7 min.s and another french try. Converted. 12-0
• 18 min.s and guess what? Another French try. Also converted. 19-0
• 28 min.s sees Ireland’s first score. A penalty. 19-3
• 30 min.s and France erase Ireland’s score with a penalty of their own. 22-3
• 38 min.s, and a huge error by Murphy sees France get in for yet another try. Once more converted. 29-3

Half time, and we are all thinking of turning the telly off, cause this is just humiliating.

• 45. min.s and France continue on their Try scoring ways. Converted. 36-3
• 48 min.s and a block down from an O’Gara kick sees France’s SIXTH try 43-3
• 58 min.s sees us score our first try. Converted. Not much a reason for celebration as the score is still 43-10
• 61 min.s - Another Irish try. converted. 43-17
• 67 min.s and O’Callaghan makes it three for Ireland. Converted. 43-24
• 70 min.s and why the hell didn’t we play like this in first half; A converted try makes it 43-31

And that was the final score. 43-31. 6 tries to 4. Can you imagine, ten tries in the one game!

So did France take their foot off the pedal and allow Ireland back into the game? Or did Ireland’s work in the first half wear the French down enough so that they just weren’t capable of maintaining that level of defence in the second half.

Here’s hoping, against all reality, that Italy beat England.

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