France (13) 16 / Wallabies (13) 59 (Final Score)
France hosted the Wallabies at Stade de France at 21:45 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 & CSN on TV in SA.
With the halftime score still indicating 13 / 13 and the Wallabies scrum in trouble in the first half, the Wallabies opened the taps and put a sorry French side to the sword in the second half, raining in the tries and giving the French their biggest ever defeat against the Wallabies, with a 43 point winning margin.
Fianl score Wallabies 59 / 16.
The Wallabies scored 7 tries against one penalty try.
Scorers:
France: 3 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morgan Parra, 1 Penalty Try
Wallabies: 6 Conversions & 4 Penalties & 1 Try James O’Connor, 1 Try Adam Ashley-Cooper, 1 Try Ben Robinson, 1 Try Will Genia, 3 Tries Drew Mitchell
Teams:
France: 15 Jerome Porical, 14 Yoann Huget, 13 Aurelien Rougerie, 12 Yannick Jauzion, 11 Alexis Palisson, 10 Damien Traille, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Sebastien Chabal, 7 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Lionel Nallet, 4 Julien Pierre, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Thomas Domingo.
Replacements: 16 Guilhem Guirado, 17 Jerome Schuster, 18 Jerome Thion, 19 Julien Bonnaire, 20 Dimitri Yachvili, 21 Fabrice Estebanez, 22 Marc Andreu.
Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 James O’Connor, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Ben McCalman, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (captain), 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Rob Simmons, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 James Slipper.
Replacements: 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 Benn Robinson, 18 Mark Chisholm, 19 Scott Higginbotham, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Matt Giteau, 22 Lachie Turner.
Date: Saturday, November 27
Venue: Stade de France, Paris
Kick-off: 21.45 SA Time (19.45 GMT)
Weather: Light snow expected in the evening, with a low of -1°C and high of 3°C.
Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Wayne Barnes (England), Carlo Damasco (Italy)
TMO: Hugh Watkins (Wales)
Strong French scrum again…. Wallas suffering big time in the forwards
Lemoenetyd
France was lucky in that last second, how about holding on. Man i would love a Aussie win tonight. I dont like the french
33@ superBul:
Ja, ek ook.
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G’day GBS & Superbul, the Wallabies are once again getting a scrummming lesson here.
Our backline doesn’t seem to have the same penetration at the moment. Good defence from the Frogs. This is going to take an enormous effort on the part of the Wallabies to win this one.
Congrats to the boks on a very important win against the Poms – great result.
35@ Old Griquas 14 in Sydney:
Hello Oldie (with the old beat up and used up carcass)…. hehehe
Yeah, Wallas getting pumped in the scrums.
@ Old Griquas 14 in Sydney:
I am holding thumbs to see a nice try or two, 3 from Aus.
2nd Half on.
Parra slots another penalty and France takes the lead.
France 16 / 13
GBS, i enjoyed Zanes game today, he is just fine for me.
40@ superBul:
Zane was good yes… injected a lot of pace and stayed away from the uppies.
Hope he is not badly injured
Wallas hard on attack… but now they have to scrum again…. hehehe
This was now nice by Aussies
Try Wallas…. Ben Robinson the tellytubby.
Very good Wallaby try; determined and intense play on the Frog line.
And even better finishing by them
Wallabies 20 / 16
@ grootblousmile:
Hey steady GBS, not so much of the old and beaten up body, although you don’t know how accurate the description is lately . . .
Another good try by the Wallabies, scored for Superbul.
Try Will Genia.
Now the Wallas are opening the taps…..
So good on attack
Hell this is great , they cut trough them like a hot knife trough butter. We have few players with this ability.
Hell this is what i stayed up for.
Wallabies 27 / 16
The difference between the 2 sides is the SH intensity and speed. The NH sides don’t match up over the full 80 mins.
53@ Old Griquas 14 in Sydney:
Just wish the Bokke could run like that with the backline…. good lines, awareness, spacial awareness… attacking the space… handling and offloading well.
I like this commentator, he still loves the hard contact, he gets lyrical about a good tackle
@ grootblousmile:
54
GBS you know we have the players to do that, WO, and Juan de Jongh
Penalty Wallas.. O’Connor slots it
Wallas 30 / 16
Suddenly a 14 point gap
That’s better goal kicking from kid wonder.
56@ superBul:
We do not have those slippery eels, like the Ozzies & the All Blacks… O’Connor, Mitchell, Cooper, Beale, Muliaina, Sonny Bill, Carter, Gear, …. all better ball handlers than ANY SA back
@ grootblousmile:
We have them, but we dont play the angles we just bash it up
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