: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:03 pm  

and if we learned anything we learned that Micheal Murcia should NEVER be allowed in an internatonal jersey again. So not all lost.

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:04 pm  

marvwoodburn wrote:

running before walking springs to mind, how many of those supporters would be blamed for never watching a RL "test" again after that?

To be honest, I think that could be said for most of them whether France had lost or not.
5 days till Barcelona!!!

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:06 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

To be honest, I think that could be said for most of them whether France had lost or not.
5 days till Barcelona!!!

I dunno, some of the oohs and aahhs from the crowd were encourageing and they cant have failed to enjoy some of the rugby played by England. Just cant imagine the french public enjoying being dicked by England

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:07 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

5 days till Barcelona!!!

you going?

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:08 pm  

marvwoodburn wrote:

I dunno, some of the oohs and aahhs from the crowd were encourageing and they cant have failed to enjoy some of the rugby played by England. Just cant imagine the french public enjoying being dicked by England

Lots of the people had free tickets. How many will turn up when they find out they have to pay?
On a more positive note, I thought England played some good open rugby.
France were far from full strength and did well considering that first half.

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:15 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Lots of the people had free tickets. How many will turn up when they find out they have to pay?.

Fair point, and another reason why the game should have been in Toulouse/Perpignan 7k with rakes of free tickets is poor IMO

Catalancs wrote:

On a more positive note, I thought England played some good open rugby.
France were far from full strength and did well considering that first half.

yeah, the game almost went the other way to what I was hoping, I felt a good result would be score under 40 against france and a decent 1st half so I suppose i cant moan too much........probably will do though!

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:18 pm  

marvwoodburn wrote:

Fair point, and another reason why the game should have been in Toulouse/Perpignan 7k with rakes of free tickets is poor IMO
yeah, the game almost went the other way to what I was hoping, I felt a good result would be score under 40 against france and a decent 1st half so I suppose i cant moan too much........probably will do though!

One bookie was offering 4/5 France +88 at half time. I almost snatched their hand off as I thought 'No way can France play as badly', but I stuck with my England -32

Two other Catalonia internationals are confirmed for the summer. An end of season tour to UK is being talked about.

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:29 pm  

marvwoodburn wrote:

Fair point, and another reason why the game should have been in Toulouse/Perpignan 7k with rakes of free tickets is poor IMO

The point of "in paris" was to get th media to mention it and the free tickets to be sure the stdium wasn't empty. Tht was as much of a success as possible. No point reeling in Parisian RL fans, there's no club side for them to follow!

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:30 pm  

marvwoodburn wrote:

and if we learned anything we learned that Micheal Murcia should NEVER be allowed in an internatonal jersey again. So not all lost.

Shame that, though Bartheua apparently did okay so that's one for the future.

: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:32 pm  

belgianxiii wrote:

No point reeling in Parisian RL fans, there's no club side for them to follow!

no point in reeling in Parisians if they are going to be treated to a steamrollering by England.