That's the kind of stuff I've been hearing too. The way ye played a group of players who hadn't had any game time in weeks/months in the first game of the championship was absolute madness.
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That's the kind of stuff I've been hearing too. The way ye played a group of players who hadn't had any game time in weeks/months in the first game of the championship was absolute madness.
This isn’t the first time! How does Jones keep his job? Fecking allowed his team to be completely psyched out
Teddy Thomas does sound like he should be welsh
Looks like no letting up in the second half. Very hard to say how this is going to go.
Or the welsh Thomas are traitors?
This game is wonderful. Antidote to all the shit negative rugby England have been serving up for so long
England just look slightly less controlled and prone to getting disorganised, it could be the difference.
That's a knock on only if May is a french player, I welcome that idea.
Very impressive jackaling by France today.
Alldritt and Ollivon having massive games
It’s actually his middle name I believe. Probably has a Malian name but chooses not to use it as his dad abandoned them before his birth
That’s a great description of it. England losing the concentration battle and making errors
Yeah this is really accurate. Small errors for England all over the place killing their momentum
Both sides are starting to make mistakes, but England are making marginally more. That kick by Youngs out on the full was a decent chance missed.
I didn’t think they’d keep the pace up. Going to be very interesting last 20.
Think the French lad thought he was Zinzan Brooke attempting that drop
It's getting a bit sloppy, but not any less exciting.
They’re all still looking to run. Absolute credit
Though I feel that France will kick themselves if they don’t win
He has the name of his mother. It's not his middle name.
My mistake but the reason probably still stands
Yeah but I'm not sure about the relevance of it. Thomas is a regular name and surname in France.
Yeah, all credit to them. No let up in commitment to running the ball.
Is that held up?? Amazing if it is.
Wow, huge call. All logic would say that he probably got it down on balance of probability but that didn't look clear at all.
Fecking hell, England kicking it right back to France with less than two mins left.
DuPont with the knock on!!!
Well played England, France only scored 6 points in the second half that's not good enough.
Argh, what an ending!
According to wikipedia it's his middle name he uses as his surname which is clearly wrong as his mother is Carole Thomas, unless she changed her surname to his middle name too.
Was an amazing game! Thought France were really good, but ran out of steam. Hangover from Covid perhaps? I was knackered for weeks afterwards and although I’m nowhere near a pro athlete it will definitely have affected them
Now I have an hour to kill before the Connacht match 
Yeah, it seemed to take some for the PL players a few weeks before they got back to normal.
Yeah wikipedia is wrong, it's his mother's name which happens to also be the name of his grandfather Jacques Thomas who was a youth coach for Biarritz Olympique.
Great game today. If England had played like this throughout it would be much closer at the top. Thought they were really good today and applied pressure to France at just the right times.
For the Irish name watchers in this thread... yet another Sean O'Brien is playing his first match for Connacht tonight 
For the Irish name watchers in this thread... yet another Sean O'Brien is playing his first match for Connacht tonight
You guys probably gave up on names, it has to be all about given names and nicknames. Or maybe you could go with the spanish tradition of using both parents names. Though you may end up with a Ciothruadh O'Shaughnessy O'shaughnessy, which is a bit lengthy.
Regulation 47.13.1(a): there must be at least three Sean O'Briens in Irish rugby at all times.
By the way, did you make up an irishy sounding first name? I haven't heard that one before
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