Sat 29th Jun: France Vs England. Stade Ernest-Wallon 17:00 BST (SL+)

[gingerjon]

1 minute ago, graveyard johnny said:

I was recording that!

ENGLAND ... FLOODED OUT ...

[Click]

1 minute ago, graveyard johnny said:

I was recording that!

I always thought you were the kind of guy that would still be 'taping' things, rather than recording 

[Hopie]

5 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Cut it how you like.

Triple header is meat raffle budget thinking. Shoving an international, or even two internationals, on a day when the main selling point has been a domestic second tier club game is revealing about priorities and planning.

 

Absolutely, triple headers are another part of our awful "stack em high sell em low" "strategy"

 

 

2 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:

Penalty against Wilson for over-zealous kick pressure.

France could do with getting one back before HT.

 

BBC are doing Live text so you don;t have to

[sam4731]

2 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

I was recording that!

I'm sorry but it's a bit unreasonable to click on a link discussing the England vs France RL match and not expect to get updates on the Italy vs Switzerland football match.

It's your own fault really.

[EastLondonMike]

1 minute ago, Archie Gordon said:

 Time for some folk to stand aside and allow compentent folk a go.

100% this.

[StandOffHalf]

France need to pounce first in the second stanza.

[graveyard johnny]

just put the knights v eels game on from this morn - massive crowd- origin was over 90000 mid week- the products there - why cant we get it right here?

[StandOffHalf]

2 minutes ago, Hopie said:

 

Absolutely, triple headers are another part of our awful "stack em high sell em low" "strategy"

 

 

 

BBC are doing Live text so you don;t have to

Sorry if it was annoying to anyone. I guess I was excited for this match thread.

[Hopie]

Get your tickets* for England v Samoa for more of this!


*Not all stands are on sale

[Mark S]

Whoever signed off on this should be typing up their resignation letter, ready to hand it in on Monday morning.

Time to give the job of administrating the whole game to IMG.

[Dave T]

24 minutes ago, snapski said:

Maybe not. But if there wasn't an International at all, folk would be raging about that.

I don't think just accepting embarrassing scraps is in any way positive. 

[bobbruce]

13 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

I was recording that!

I won’t tell you the score but don’t bother watching it there isn’t anymore goals. 

[wilsontown]

As usual, the game itself is fine but everything else around this fixture is a disaster. No-one is there.

That France shirt is absolutely stunning though.

[bobbruce]

2 minutes ago, bobbruce said:

I won’t tell you the score but don’t bother watching it there isn’t anymore goals. 

That joke didn’t last long 

[Dave T]

21 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Cut it how you like.

Triple header is meat raffle budget thinking. Shoving an international, or even two internationals, on a day when the main selling point has been a domestic second tier club game is revealing about priorities and planning.

The problem is that we have dropped even lower than internationals being underwhelming, or disappointing, or below potential, to being actively harmful to the sport. 

I wouldn't blame anyone seeing this from being put off buying tickets to the Samoa series. 

[north yorks trinity]

4 minutes ago, Mark S said:

Whoever signed off on this should be typing up their resignation letter, ready to hand it in on Monday morning.

Time to give the job of administrating the whole game to IMG.

What successes have IMG brought to bring you to that conclusion?

4 minutes ago, Mark S said:

 

[Hopie]

The sound of Paul Cooke breathing into the mic is louder than the stadium sounds, what a nightmare production this is.

[north yorks trinity]

1 minute ago, Dave T said:

The problem is that we have dropped even lower than internationals being underwhelming, or disappointing, or below potential, to being actively harmful to the sport. 

I wouldn't blame anyone seeing this from being put off buying tickets to the Samoa series. 

I suspect it's only hard core fans watching this unfortunately. Surely hard core fans will be supporting internationals and if not don't complain the international scene is poor.

[StandOffHalf]

France go back down the short side with a series of short passes that end up in touch.

Last one looked to come off the England player's forearm, but ruled not to have touched him.

Edited June 29 by StandOffHalf

[Click]

Someone PLEASE tell Cooke to take the microphone away from his mouth. My god, I don't need to hear his every breath.

[faithfulbyname]

Bit harsh on the French that call

[Click]

2 minutes ago, north yorks trinity said:

I suspect it's only hard core fans watching this unfortunately. Surely hard core fans will be supporting internationals and if not don't complain the international scene is poor.

Huh? Are you suggesting England should have travelled in their thousands over for this game?

[Bull Mania]

31 minutes ago, snapski said:

Maybe not. But if there wasn't an International at all, folk would be raging about that.

There's a saying in life, either do something properly, or don't do it at all. This fixture and the one at Warrington last year is actually doing more harm to the international game than good. 

We had the international game right around 2008-2013. Two strong world cups, four nations in the southern hemisphere and then the northern, that exposed a developing nation to elite internationals, help them develop and improve without hindering the international game. The fact we threw that away makes me so disheartened over international RL, when it should be the pinnacle of our sport. Now we are in a situation where we're scrabbling around looking for nations to play us and wondering why we're playing in empty stadiums 

[StandOffHalf]

That's not great from Chan to pop up the ball first carry after a touch-finder.

[bromleybulldog]

2 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:

 

Last one looked to come of the England player's forearm, but ruled not to have touched him.

It was clear as day from here even on the terrible feed