NPR

Argentina
15 Martin Bogado, 14 Bautista Delguy, 13 Matias Moroni, 12 Jeronimo de la Fuente, 11 Mateo Carreras, 10 Santiago Carreras, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 8 Joaquin Oviedo, 7 Marcos Kremer, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Lucas Paulos, 4 Matias Alemanno, 3 Eduardo Bello, 2 Julian Montoya (captain), 1 Thomas Gallo

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Lucio Sordoni, 19 Franco Molina, 20 Bautista Pedemonte, 21 Lautaro Bazan Velez, 22 Tomas Albornoz, 23 Matias Orlando


France
15 Melvin Jaminet, 14 Theo Attissogbe, 13 Emilien Gailleton, 12 Antoine Frisch, 11 Lester Etien, 10 Antoine Hastoy, 9 Baptiste Serin, 8 Jordan Jospeh, 7 Judicael Cancoriet, 6 Ibrahim Diallo, 5 Baptiste Pesenti, 4 Pasolo Tuilagi, 3 Demba Bamba, 2 Teddy Baubigny, 1 Sebastien Taofifenua

Replacements: 16 Gaetan Barlot, 17 Jannick Tarit, 18 Giorgi Beria, 19 Georges-Henri Colombe, 20 Thomas Laclayat 21 Louis Carbonel, 22 Nathanael Hulleu, 23 Leo Berdeu

Completely understand the blooding of the youngsters but that backline is all about attack and so Serin the Snail is recalled to slow everything down? Where TF is Jauneau or Le Garrec?

SH cleansweep

Sards wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 6:42 pmSH cleansweep

Definitely. Had Pumas by 10-15

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 6:44 pm

Sards wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 6:42 pmSH cleansweep

Definitely. Had Pumas by 10-15

Surprisingly since the NH is playing decent rugby.
It's been close tho

Sards wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 7:07 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 6:44 pm

Sards wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 6:42 pmSH cleansweep

Definitely. Had Pumas by 10-15

Surprisingly since the NH is playing decent rugby.
It's been close tho

This is pretty much a 3rd team for France. Entirely experimental bar the hopeless Serin, Gros and Hastoy.

F**king Argie anthem is as long and tedious as the Irish's.

Arg about 5m offside at every breakdown...........

FM. Serin and Hastoy having the sh*tshow expected.

For the first time since ever, they have a decent sound feed that doesn't sound like something from the 60s.

F**k off Serin.

PCPhil wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 7:23 pm For the first time since ever, they have a decent sound feed that doesn't sound like something from the 60s.

Scotland have played over there a good few times in recent years and it's been a good feed each time

France are looking the more likely atm

Arg goes for early entry into next year's Oscars.

Serin goes greedy, doesn't find touch and puts his side under massive pressure

You couldn't make it up

That should be a penalty try and yellow card, just as the French comms are calling for

edit, I guess he scored it anyway, but still, the Pumas got away with one there

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 7:52 pm That should be a penalty try and yellow card, just as the French comms are calling for

edit, I guess he scored it anyway, but still, the Pumas got away with one there

Agreed. Forced a conversion and kept Arg at 15. Poor officiating.

Great stuff by Serin

JM2K6 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 7:59 pm Great stuff by Serin

Much amusement on Frog chats along the same lines i.e. he's been sh*t and then scores!

Frisch is a funny one. Also went to Loboro (like Flament) and has dicked around in Eng and Ire for a few years before getting this cap.

Just what Arg want: a scrum 1m out.

Finally Attisogbe gets the ball in hand somewhere useful.

Can you imagine a lock pair of Tuilagi and Meafou ?

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:42 pm Can you imagine a lock pair of Tuilagi and Meafou ?

You'd need three lineout operators in the back row

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:44 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:42 pm Can you imagine a lock pair of Tuilagi and Meafou ?

You'd need three lineout operators in the back row

Not really a problem if you have Cros, Macalou and Ollivon.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:45 pm

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:44 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:42 pm Can you imagine a lock pair of Tuilagi and Meafou ?

You'd need three lineout operators in the back row

Not really a problem if you have Cros, Macalou and Ollivon.

I used to call for Will Skelton to lift Hooper in the Oz lineout and eventually they did that, they could do similar with a handy little guy in the backrow for France with those two plus Atonio.

Arg scrum has been humiliated. Without that they have been completely lost.

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:48 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:45 pm

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:44 pm



You'd need three lineout operators in the back row

Not really a problem if you have Cros, Macalou and Ollivon.

I used to call for Will Skelton to lift Hooper in the Oz lineout and eventually they did that, they could do similar with a handy little guy in the backrow for France with those two plus Atonio.

I'm with you on that tactic. Why lift the heavy, tall guy when he can lift a tall, light guy?

Jaminet you f**kwit. Kick it into touch you clown.

That ball was over the dead ball line but it should have been a penalty try, like earlier

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:52 pm That ball was over the dead ball line but it should have been a penalty try, like earlier

And a card.

Fra would have walked the U20s had the kids not all been here.

Jaminet has been booted out of the French touring squad after a video was posted online of him saying he's going to head butt the first Arab he comes across.

Arsehole.

Tichtheid wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 1:14 pm Jaminet has been booted out of the French touring squad after a video was posted online of him saying he's going to head butt the first Arab he comes across.

Arsehole.

Yup. I saw the FFR statement on their home page yesterday morning. Took a while for me to find what he had said (he deleted it). Given that Bastien Chalureau was in the
RWC squad and he was done for assault (a bit worse than a tweet...) which was racially motivated, I think Jaminet will be starting the Autumn tests.............

Another two players unavailable.

Two France international rugby players have been arrested in Argentina following allegations of sexual assault.
Oscar Jegou, 21, and Hugo Auradou, 20, were detained in Buenos Aires on Monday and will be transported to Mendoza, where local reports claim the crime allegedly took place against a woman.
France are on a tour of South America.
France's squad stayed in Mendoza on Saturday night following their 28-13 Test win against Argentina, during which the two players both made their international debuts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-uni ... k48wnp1o

Is tonight's game being broadcast anywhere ?

Marylandolorian wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2024 12:29 pm

SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2024 10:03 am Another two players unavailable.

Two France international rugby players have been arrested in Argentina following allegations of sexual assault.
Oscar Jegou, 21, and Hugo Auradou, 20, were detained in Buenos Aires on Monday and will be transported to Mendoza, where local reports claim the crime allegedly took place against a woman.
France are on a tour of South America.
France's squad stayed in Mendoza on Saturday night following their 28-13 Test win against Argentina, during which the two players both made their international debuts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-uni ... k48wnp1o

Another two players unavailable (for 10/15 years if true)
Let’s wait and see what really happened before jumping to conclusions.

Agree although Jegou already has form of sorts.

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:02 pm Is tonight's game being broadcast anywhere ?

Sky Sports Action in the UK. I think ESPN 2 too?

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:12 pm

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:02 pm Is tonight's game being broadcast anywhere ?

Sky Sports Action in the UK. I think ESPN 2 too?

Got it now, ta

Pesenti has been a turnstile in defence so far.

Bamba looked such a promising talent at U20 and has gone nowhere since he left Brive for LOU.