France (9) 19 / 26 (9) All Blacks (Final Score)
France and the New Zealand All Blacks did battle in the End Of Year Tours at
Stade de France, Paris at 22:00 SA Time (21:00 France Time, 20:05 GMT, 09:00 Sunday NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & CSN on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
France:
- Penalties – Morgan Parra (4)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Brice Dulin (1)
- Conversions – Morgan Parra (1)
All Blacks:
- Penalties – Daniel Carter (4)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Charles Piutau (1), Kieran Read (1)
- Conversions – Daniel Carter (1), Aaron Cruden (1)
Teams:
France: 15 Brice Dulin, 14 Yoann Huget, 13 Florian Fritz, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Maxime Medard, 10 Remi Tales, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Damien Chouly, 7 Wenceslas Lauret, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (Captain), 5 Yoann Maestri, 4 Pascal Pape, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 Benjamin Kayser, 1 Yannick Forestier.
Replacements: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Vincent Debaty, 18 Rabah Slimani, 19 Sebastien Vahaamahina, 20 Antonie Claassen, 21 Jean-Marc Doussain, 22 Camille Lopez, 23 Gael Fickou.
New Zealand: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Ben Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Charles Piutau, 10 Daniel Carter, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (Captain), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Dane Coles, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Charlie Faumuina, 19 Steven Luatua, 20 Sam Cane, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Aaron Cruden, 23 Ryan Crotty.
Date: Saturday 9 November 2013
Venue: Stade de France, Paris
Kick-off: 22:00 SA Time (21:00 France Time, 20:00 GMT, 09:00 Sunday NZ time)
Expected weather: Moderate to heavy rain. High of 10 C, with a low of 6 C
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), Stuart Berry (South Africa)
TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
French looking to run everything. Good stuff, lets hope that they are on form. Will make for a great match
France 3 / 0 All Blacks
Much better
All blacks (in contrast to us) keep the ball away from contact when they attack. They just keep on moving the ball away from contact. Lower risk to loose the ball in contact and take the trench battle out of the contest. This will be a far better way to play Wales. Their whole game is based on stopping te opponents momentum at he tackle.
Side entry… All Blacks penalty
looks like another rubbish pitch. Tearing up badly
France 3 / 3 All Blacks
34 @ McLook:
Hello McLook…
All Blacks scrum, following a French knock from a high kick
When they (the AB) take the ball into contact they don’t try and break through (again in contrast to us). They focus on recycle a speed (not getting isolated). In fact he person going into contact hit the tackler do a quick leg drive and hen actually turn around to place the ball as he goes to ground. The initial leg pump is just enough to give his support time to get too the collision.
Nice steal by France…
@ McLook:What were your thoughts on the Wales/Bok match?
Carried back by Parra… 5m scrum for the All Blacks
Corey Jane look good for someone 6 months out of rugby.
All Blacks scrum penalty, hinging by the French loosehead prop
All Blacks 6 / 3 France
Good running by France… not standing back at all
French penalty advantage…
This debutant French Flyhalf, Talles, is GOOD, not shy to run it at the All Blacks
All Blacks 6 / 6 France
All Blacks penalty, not releasing AND coming in on the side of the ruck
Long shot at goal for Carter
OVER… straight as an arrow
All Blacks 9 / 6 France
Just For Kicks wrote:
I’ll write something later today. It was a arm wrestle and we reverted to the kick an chase which took hem by surprise. We are getting beter at the ruck and were more competitive than on pervious occcations in that department against Wales.
We struggled on tight head which is why we could’t get momentum. Only time we got momentum was when he Scrums went uncontested. Lambie needs more game time. He was not convincing but to be fair he was not mentally prepared to play flyhalf.
The kick chase was in hindsight probably the right tactic but there was space out wide and I would have liked to see us move he ball more through the hands (less smash ups).
JP and Jaque looked a bit off the pace.
Overall a good effort by the boks. We butchered at least two tries.
Willem Alberts was my man of the match. He was massive on defence.
Parra with a charge-down… France attack
53 @ McLook:
Lambie was diabolically terrible!
France penlalty, offside… easiest pop-over ball
All Blacks 9 / 9 France
Are you guy’s listening to the NZ commentators?
58 @ McLook:
No, European Commentators, here
Kommaan Hoenders! Moer die Kiwis sommer stukkend!
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