RWC 3/4 - France V Argentina

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:59 am

France: Poitrenaud, Rougerie, Skrela, Traille, Dominici, Michalak, Elissalde; Poux, Ibanez, De Villiers, Nallet, Thion, Nyanga, Dusautoir, Harinordoquy.
Replacements: Bruno, Mas, Chabal, Martin, Mignoni, Beauxis, Clerc.

barney · Post by **barney** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:18 am

Really can't see the point in putting the players through this kind of thing in the aftermath of the emotion of the semi-finals.

Same as in the football RWC, just seems like a completely meaningless and irrelevent fixture.

aarons · Post by **aarons** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:17 pm

barney wrote:Really can't see the point in putting the players through this kind of thing in the aftermath of the emotion of the semi-finals.

Same as in the football RWC, just seems like a completely meaningless and irrelevent fixture.

don't agree. sometimes, but not this game. the pumas deserve one more turn, and from half-reading L'Equipe this morning with my pidgin french, the French nation seems to be treating the game as a cathartic exercise!

plus any excuse to have the french playing at the Parc des Princes again is surely a good thing.

this could, actually, given the teams involved, be one of the best 3/4 games of all time

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:48 pm

Pichot has called for those who haven't had a game yet to get a run on Friday. I expect the Pumas to make wholesale changes. The front row are all carrying knocks and in general the SF looked one game too far.

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:45 pm

Argentina team: I Corleto; FM Aramburu, G Tiesi, F Contepomi, H Agulla; JM Hernandez, A Pichot; R Roncero, A Vernet Basualdo, O Hasan, R Alvarez Kairelis, P Albacete, M Durand, JM Fernandez Lobbe, G Longo Elia. Replacements: M Ayerza, E Guinazu, E Lozada, JM Leguizamon, N Fernandez Miranda, F Todeschini, H Senillosa.

cables · Post by **cables** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:43 pm

At 3-3, France feeling it should have been much much more, then BANG BANG

France 3 Argentina 17

cables · Post by **cables** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:18 pm

BANG

3-22 on 54 minutes.

cables · Post by **cables** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:30 pm

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

3-27 on 66 minutes.

BTW while 15 plays 14!

jamesie · Post by **jamesie** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:34 pm

jesus christo!!!

cables · Post by **cables** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:35 pm

LITTLE WHIMPER

10-27 on 70 mins.

cables · Post by **cables** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:44 pm

EXPLOSION

10-34 on 78 mins.

cables · Post by **cables** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:48 pm

Full Time

France 10 Argentina 34

I know nothing about predictions.

ColinS · Post by **ColinS** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:53 pm

Only caught the last 2 minutes.
But well played Argentina!

jamesie · Post by **jamesie** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:54 pm

wow!!! 5 BANGS to 1

bizarre shot of ceebas giving one of the puma's baby a coochy-coo at the end!!!

mid ulster maestro · Post by **mid ulster maestro** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:58 pm

What a cracker of a match. Argentina richly deserved their win. I'll have to disagree with Barney on who needs a 3/4 playoff. That was one of the best games of the tournament. I still can't believe the French folded so easily.
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