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26 Aug 2007
France smashed Wales 34-7 in their final World Cup warm-up Test.
The Six Nations champions will go into the competition full of confidence having beaten England twice and now the Welsh.
A penalty from flyhalf Lionel Beauxis and a try by second-rower Jérôme Thion gave France a 10-0 lead. Wales scrumhalf Dwayne Peel then had a kick charged down on his tryline and opposite number Pierre Mignoni picked up the loose ball to score.
Wales finally got themselves on the board just before full-time when flyhalf James Hook went over, but France totally dominated the second half, scoring another two tries through wing Aurelien Rougerie and loose forward Sebastien Bruno.
Players on both sides suffered knocks, but Wales captain Gareth Thomas was stretchered off late in the game and there will be an anxious wait to see how serious the injury is.
Wales play their first World Cup match against Canada on 9 September, while France open their account against Argentina two days earlier.
Wales – Try: James Hook. Conversion: Hook.
France РJ̩r̫me Thion, Pierre Mignoni, Aurelien Rougerie, Sebastien Bruno. Conversions: Lionel Beauxis (3). Penalties: Beauxis (3).
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27 Aug 2007, 08:43 am
#178
Is so funny and so true
27 Aug 2007, 08:43 am
Alright boys & Dawn
I am off to try & explain to the bank why I have so much foreign currency in cash but am an not a drug dealer /gun runner /people smuggler …
Catch you all later – assuming I don’t need bail 8)
27 Aug 2007, 08:46 am
Manly take you to the bank in the Chivalry?! Just make sure he dropped the fishnets or else you stand no chance if the police start asking questions…
27 Aug 2007, 08:46 am
boo hoo you are a dribbler of the most innane remarks. France beat England -fact. England could not defend a pedestrian crossing in their current form. You know and we know they will not make the semis-fact. You perpetually dribble about things that happened four years ago-fact.
You know and we know the AB’s are the best placed to win the WC-fact. Whether they do or not will be seen over two games, of which England will be watching from the stands-fact.
SA, NZ, AUS, FRANCE are the contenders- period.
Those four, if given a choice would rather anyone them win the cup apart from the Poms-fact.
Personally I think the AB’s will win as they have more going for them and some surprises in store. England will probably never win a nother world cup, the last one was a fluke.
27 Aug 2007, 08:49 am
I swear its only bunny chow marks fynkyk,at least I’m not smuggling finches in them like Koos’s.
27 Aug 2007, 08:52 am
Says the silkworm man…
27 Aug 2007, 08:54 am
27 Aug 2007, 08:58 am
Howzit AB, as Koos says….n hele bladsy f@#kol.
Lyk my boo hoo is in die kak en weet glad nie.
27 Aug 2007, 09:00 am
boo hoo weet wie hy is, moenie worry nie.
27 Aug 2007, 09:02 am
Princess….sob….sob….sob. Tears of joy when the Boks lift that WC trophy.
27 Aug 2007, 09:09 am
#210 dominee– It wont happen. All Blacks will storm home,stunning all before them with the slickest most fluent style of dominating rugby ever seen. Who ever plays them in the final will be still be standing on the field after all have left and the lights are out, eyes wide open wondering what just happened to them. Mark my words- the lineout is going to break their hearts!
27 Aug 2007, 09:12 am
Fantail…who wrote that fairy tale….I’ve heard it somewhere before…
27 Aug 2007, 09:28 am
And if the ABs dont win princess????….Are you going to jump of the sky tower with out a bungy hehehe
27 Aug 2007, 09:30 am
Manlybok I think it was one of the Grimm brothers….
27 Aug 2007, 09:31 am
…but remember this in on Oct 22nd.
27 Aug 2007, 09:38 am
I think a fantail needs the meds more than me princess if he thinks the ABs are holding something back then France could be ,,,,,The 6 nation champs would not keep losing to the ABs by 50 unless it was a big con
27 Aug 2007, 09:46 am
By the way it might be the ABs with their eyes wide open in shock because the Boks and france arent as useless as they think they are….Dont them and there fans ever learn
27 Aug 2007, 09:54 am
footy you are the perfect example of gullibility. It was the AB’s that let the French think they had fooled them with that scoreline—like a double jeopardy.
27 Aug 2007, 10:07 am
Yes just like 99….someone said the ABs were a sleep well it took then a long time to wake up….hehehe maybe they werent as good as people thought they were and i think the current crop arent as good as people think they are and will be Standing on the field with their eyes wide open in a daze again…If henry the great coach then why couldnt the lions under him beat AUS
27 Aug 2007, 10:17 am
#219 footy sorry cant follow what you are trying to say???
27 Aug 2007, 10:18 am
Manlybok just wondering why you think the boks will have improved so much as to be able to beat the AB’s when they have not really managed to well against them over the last four years?
27 Aug 2007, 10:24 am
By the the way Fantail where was this holding back stuff the ABs have when they lost to Aus this year hahaha GOT YOU….That guy henry has you suckered haha with his talk
27 Aug 2007, 10:32 am
footy- guess you are right. You have to have to have the brains and intelligence to work these things out and I guess I will never see it because I’m just so damn stupid.
27 Aug 2007, 10:33 am
Why’s everyone crying?
27 Aug 2007, 11:17 am
Dawn because they know that it will be four more years to get a sniff, and they know they have diddly squat chance of taking the WC off NZ in NZ, so it will be eight more years really.
27 Aug 2007, 12:32 pm
#105 JB Cowper– One thing that continually amazes me about this and other sites and its bloggers is that nearly everyone knows more than me about the game, the players, the stats, records,incidents, strategies etc. Yet not one of you can see beyond it to what is really happening in front of you.
Sometimes you have to climb down of the mountain to really see what you have been standing on.
Rugby Princess is beginning to see the possibility that I maybe right over the massive sucker punch that will be delivered by the AB’s come WC time. Even now though, it is too late for anything to be done short of Suzie style deal again.
27 Aug 2007, 15:29 pm
AB hi
Back from bank run … albeit a “meeting” & 3 bottles of V Cliquot later
Domineee – Only in yr dreams baby !
Fantail – I loved the mental picture … lights out shock on their little faces … “What was that ?” they ask each other ?
Footy – No I will wait until 2011 like every other AB supporter & “make do” with being world ranked #1
Oohh my, too much champers I think …
27 Aug 2007, 15:32 pm
#226 – So what you are saying is that the actual games they’ve all played against each other are meaningless? Nice argument mate.
28 Aug 2007, 04:24 am
#131 RP
Sorry Princess I didn’t realise we had so many peverts on this site
28 Aug 2007, 09:31 am
J.B Cowper..No,its actually not an argument at all. Only a fool would consider any game a waste or meaningless. What I am talking about is what has been going on, in front of everyone but no one has really seen it. The underlying stratedgy that has been played out beautifully and disguised so well with the fielding of two teams so no one would pick up on what GH and the boys were really up to- a smoke screen if you like.
It was only able to be done because of the standard of the thirty players.
28 Aug 2007, 16:08 pm
#230 – Nobody is arguing AB quality, technically speaking they are in a class of their own – but Bok quality, per the record of the last 7 games, shows that they can more than compete – whereas your text implies that it is a foregone walkover for NZ; I just don’t agree with that at all, based on the evidence.
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