Sat 22 Oct: RLWC: England v France KO 5pm

[RugbyBaller]

To be fair, there's only 2 teams in the world that that performance wouldn't be good enough against

[Damien]

Jon Wilkin yet again letting his personal beefs with players judge his commentary.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Damien

[shrewsbury roughyed]

Thought that was a try. Deserved it

[Stuff Smith]

Jon Wilkin is very annoying.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Stuff Smith

[OMEGA]

Wilkin is Welsby’s secret dad isn’t he!

[moorside roughyed]

Still,no amount of garlic could save the French tonight. 

[Gerrumonside ref]

42-18 FT

[Gambass]

Just now, moorside roughyed said:

Still,no amount of garlic could save the French tonight. 

So classy...

[Gerrumonside ref]

Creditable performance by France after the Greece game.

 

[Mark S]

I thought that was a great game, both teams tackled hard but England’s quality was the difference. Sort out the lapse in concentration, we are as good as anyone.

[Wakefield Ram]

3 minutes ago, Hvy wg said:

Avsolute farce that decision

It was a try. Hicks didn't even take a proper look. So add that disallowed try and take away the blatant forward pass then 12 point win

[Gerrumonside ref]

Honest post match interview

[SydneyRoosters]

Fantastic game of rugby league, Fairly Competitive for the most part, Sold out, some very entertaining tries, a bit of push and shove. Fantastic advertisement for the sport really impressed.

Everyone seems to be disappointed with the English performance but I personally don’t understand, France are very very good team and the 84-4 days are over, this is now a fairly competitive match and England fans should be happy.

[Derwent]

A 6/10 performance from England but still a comfortable win so can’t grumble too much.

[Big Picture]

2 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

42-18 FT

Can either team play defense????

[Alan Robertson]

Hopefully Wane will be as angry with that performance as I am. We just wouldn't get away with that kind of sloppiness against the better sides. We'd get absolutely demolished.

[Wakefield Ram]

39 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

the player passing is behind the line when he lets go - the player catching it is in front of the line - quite simple

How the ref and both TJs missed it is surprising.

[Phil]

This is why we MUST play France every year, they competed today and can only get better with regular competition 

[Alan Robertson]

Just now, Big Picture said:

Can either team play defense????

Not consistently based on that evidence.

[SydneyRoosters]

Wow 292 Metres for Dom Young and 238 from Ryan hall, an incredible backfield. 

[wilsontown]

I will have said the same before, but how do you get binned in a game that you've won with 15 seconds left?

Players swapping shirts at the end is a nice touch.

[paulwalker71]

Classic TRL Forum

A competitive game with France, some great tries, and 23K there - and people are piling in with the criticisms...

[JohnM]

7 minutes ago, Hvy wg said:

Avsolute farce that decision

Which one? It seems they all were. 

[SydneyRoosters]

1 minute ago, Alan Robertson said:

Hopefully Wane will be as angry with that performance as I am. We just wouldn't get away with that kind of sloppiness against the better sides. We'd get absolutely demolished.

England really wouldn’t though, People need understand France are a very strong competitive side these days and 42-18 is a very respectable score line.

[The Daddy]

Decent performance from both teams. I think France are gradually improving but they need more games and 2 clubs in SL