Have you ever seen the film Million Dollar Baby? It's a good film, you should watch it.

The core skills of the French are very poor at times. Too many passes gone to ground and tackling techniques atrocious. Great spirit but missed opportunity for them - they should have had that one.

Personally I enjoyed the game, and just like Eddie and Stevo, people dwell on the negative, I'll leave it at that seeing as the thread is going in circles.

How have I twisted your words, I have reprinted what you typed word for word.

Not bitter about the hit, disappointed that you cannot tell the difference between foul play and fair play.

Grown up discussion? You are far beneath my intellect for such a thing.

People dwell on talking points, unfortunately the dodgy Samoan tackling was a big talking point!

But the dodgy tackling stems from weak reffing, so surely that is the bigger talking point?

Seen it, and yet people still box knowing things like that happen. It's like they have weighed up pros and cons of what they want to do and make an adult decision.... Amazing

Yed,

Everyone has picked up on perenara being rubbish and I think if he would have sanctioned properly when the second late hit came in he would have nipped it in the bud but he didn't. But at the same time it doesn't excuse the Samoans for what they did and I agree with the recent post about the second half, they were just as physical but no foul play. If they would have tackled like that in the first half this entire thread would have been about how great the game was but because of their ill discipline in the first half we aren't talking about a superb second half of rugby.

I played, I picked up shoulder, knee, head, jaw, rib and finger injuries. I stopped playing when it interfered with my work. You know the score and you make a judgement call.

you got the chance to make the call though. I have had other injuries caused by RL but the one that made the decision for me was done by foul play. Would love to have played on but didn't get the chance.

Using 132 minutes of fiction to justify your stance.

Priceless