Don’t you remember your recent interview on 10s with a pro SA rugby analyst? He made a convincing case that although fans love flashy 10s, ripping it up at club level (in French context Jalibert), international 10s need a strong defence (Ntamack). Which of the two 10s is strong in defence (N has a high tackle rate and successfully jackaled near his own try line in the champions cup final), is accurate with the boot and can kick off both feet (N made a left foot try assist in the last Top 14 final), has a great big match temperament, is a great tactician with excellent spatial awareness, a good team man? I find the incomparable Squidge, a big admirer of Ntamack, who backs his opinions with illustrations, far more convincing than the “personal opinion of a UBB fan, who will get more clicks if he voices a controversial opinion. Do you expect Ntamack to leave Toulouse to prove to Huw Griffin how great he is? I think not.

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Colbi and arendse are better play him in 4 years we beat France again

Did you find the sizing to be small? My XL Wales 1905 fits like an M (I usually wear L)

Looks like a Scotland jersey… 😅 With Castore jerseys, you’d be lucky for them to last 16 weeks, let alone years!

England beat Italy 20 times in a row.

La France a de quoi aisément constituer 2 équipes au top international avec le pool de joueurs exceptionnels qu elle possede.

The difference between the rugby championship and the 6N In the 6N your constantly told that your watching the best rugby on the planet In the rugby championship you actually have the best rugby on the planet to watch Sorry but the rugby championship is way better and frankly its not close

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You don't pronounce the T in Dupont , otherwise great show.

Dupont was outstanding this winger didn't do much tbh

Knee wrap is a concern😮

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He didn't do much actually. Couple of runs and got on the end of a great kick and a pass. Not sure why the hype train is running.

😂🇿🇦...The Springboks haven't got that problem❤...Rassie is already in their heads...😂🇿🇦💥

La France a Un réservoir important de jeunes bourrés de talent ...on est là pour longtemps

He has to keep on improving and delivering to be part of the starting XV but if he is patient and if he works hard, he can be a real contender......... as a n⁰3 beczuse n⁰1 and 2 are LBB and Penaud !

Pretty damn cool having two of the world’s best players in a particular position playing at the same club, learning from each others’ plays and moves, and then applying that to their own games. Not something you often see.

In the first half I thought "Maybe we can white-knuckle our way to a bare-minimum win. We've stonewalled Ireland really well, made some almighty score-stoppers..." and then it all. fell. apart. At least the blooding I'm so desperate for is technically still on 🙃

I loved the tactical analysis of why that Dupont kicked worked so well. I think you made a video a while ago about how we don't often get that kind of thing in rugby and how we really need to, and now I'm converted to the cause. All the similar talk in football has always been Greek to me, but I understood you perfectly well, and now I hunger for more lmao.

Can Attissogbe break into the France XV this year? debate below! 🇫🇷

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A pay wall in the Britain

I would agree but I would not be to harsh on your team..they were decent enough 😊

Imagine watching rugby

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Do they have the players? Yes. But do they have the mentality? I'm not so sure. Last year, without Dupont, this team drew against Italy and were humiliated by the Irish. Sure, their golden boy is back, but he was there is 2023 as well, as was he is 2019, 2020, 2021.

In 2022 Rusia was banned for invading a different and free other sovereign state. GOOD. Leave and we might let you pay.

With the Six Nations starting up tonight..it kinda puts a spin on the phrase "white line fever" doesn't it?. Looking up and down all the team selections...one will be wondering exactly what this player is doing in his spare time?. I guess rugby players think they're just a big as rockstars as the white powder gets passed around...

You missed out the bit around 2009 where the Russian government pressured the country's main rugby league teams, who had been thriving and entering European competitions since the early 90s, maybe even late 80s at a push, to move over to union; i.e. Lokomotiv were a leading league club that were made to switch, and who won the the union championship last year. The national union side did much better once these clubs and infrastructure were absorbed, and pretty much strangled the league game in that country down to what it is today. I think this is a major point in the history of rugby union in that country and had a major impact on their structure and their subsequent rise in performance at international level - not quite as much as getting banned did to their fall - but maybe not, think about where they were union wise before 2009 and where they are now in terms of rankings. So probably worth a mention in the video as to their dramatic increase is standard and why they ended up playing at a pretty high level in union in club and 7s rugby for a few years.

Under a paywall, in the UK. Nuance.

As other commenters have rightly pointed out, this will give a bigger balance sheet number for a few years and kill the game afterwards.

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Very interesting video and I agree with most of what you say!! The coach situation is much to do with England not winning. The hiring of Felix Jones was a disaster and the new defence coach is not much better. i would like to see Austin Healy as the attack coach and given the task of generating an attacking identity - this would include dropping Henry Slade and using Tom Freeman at no 12 with Tom Roebuck at no 14

Agree, they're both developing at the moment, especially Prendergast is hardly out of the under 20s. Lot of potential there though.

Should have kept his mouth shut and not jeopardised his salary then eh

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Fantastic jersey!