Six Nations: Will Scotland’s ‘France-lite’ spoil Les Bleus title party?
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend said the rugby world will stick to their screens on Saturday night – he might be right. France is so watched, so striking, so fragile in Twickenham, so mean in Dublin. They are a drama themselves.
Everyone loves flawed geniuses, and here is the team form. How can such a great player win the championship only on Saturday night, not on a Grand Slam title? The losses of the British were difficult to understand, but the vulnerability increased France’s appeal. They are a very cute lot.
The creativity that attracted their team wasn’t just the terrible beauty on their 7-1 bench, an idea borrowed from the Boks, but when France did it, it was even more impressive.
Why do we love them? For their group courses – they need four attempts to score for the new Six Nations attempts. For their personal excellence – Damian Penaud has played 12 games for Club and Country in the last five games (or twelve shots shown by the old Vidiprinter), and young master Louis Bielle Bielle -Biarrey has scored 23 points in the last 20 games.
The Bordeaux leaflet was attempted 17 times in 18 tests. To be honest, this is ridiculous.
what else? At the moment when only great players can deliver, Bielle-Biarrey once again tried to make the record eighth attempt in six countries. For the absent genius – Antoine Dupont. For the dogs without beatings – Thibaud Flament in the second row, Paul Boudehent is in the back row, only they can explode and two of the many heavy objects that can play.
France won the past three six countries against Scotland and won 20 of its last 25 matches between the two teams. They were roaring with popular favorites, but what about the Scots? One out of one hundred? One in a million? Chance?
They can be smart, they can be cruel, they can be fatal, and they can be wasteful. In a sense, they are French-Wright.
They make Jekyll and Hyde look simple. Sometimes, Frankel of purebred football, sometimes Devon Loch of the era of self-destruction.
Shaun Edwards is too cunning to listen to the chat of French racing certainty. He didn’t become one of the most influential coaches in the modern day because of the cup.
Edwards will approach Scotland in the form of bomb disposal experts, making security unexploded equipment. He knew that the danger was in this team and had to be neutralized. He knew that Scotland was angry on their best day and could do an all-around game for it.
Last year, it was a fight for Murrayfield, and Scotland believes they have won the victory through the late Sam Skinner attempt, just to get officials forward from the right call, which will give them victory.
