Daunting quarter-final v Les Rosbifs

Well, I thought in patches that was the best I have seen France play for a long time even if they never looked like winning the game.
Always game in the forwards but lacking the ability to finish moves off. I'm sure that France would have posted more points because Bosc and Greeny (playing a kind of pseudo-fullback-playmaker in attack. IMO with his experience in France at FB was where he should have been from the start) both, along with Barthau did an ok job giving the team shape with Morgan going to the wing and swapping positions with Clint, in the England and Samoa games Morgan has looked likely to score tries like this.

Because I havent seen much of the French league, Internationals are one of the only chance I get to see fringe Catalans players like Barthau, for most the time in the WC he has been a much improved player but still needs to learn to keep his head and not look for the killer pass all the time. He really took some big hits after being targeted in the PNG and Samoa games, there is still a question over his weight, or lack of it. The other players like Cardace didn't get much of an opportunity but IMO he is of a muchness compared to Stacul and Vaccari.

French elite players like Kane Bentley will never let you down, he and his brother were probably the only players coming out of the NZ game with any credit and Kane was really unfortunate with the injury in the England game. worried when i saw the name Younis Khattabi on the team sheet and he didn't let me down either and showed us that he is way past the level of an international player, if he ever was there the highlight being a deft pass into row 5 of the stand.

Either way with France out of the way in the standard disappointing way, I can concentrate on England to go out in the standard dissapointng way.