"Like Quade Cooper, but with common sense." That is gold Squidge!

Honestly when you see how much all anglophone nations use their advantages to obtain favorable decisions from the referees during rugby matches, it's impossible to blame France for how they played and defended their colors.

That Romain Ntmack performance was one of the most impressive performances from an out half I’ve seen in such a long time, a complete performance. Such a talent for such a young man, what a talent!

It would be both the most scottish and most French thing for scotland to win next week

I walked into college this Tuesday and in the first 5 minutes 6 people asked "are you okay you look depressed" I responded each time with "I'm welsh" and everyone instantly understood the pain I was in, ngl tho France are playing apsolutly class rugby this year and I kinda want them to do the grand slam

For me this win was so impressive because they showed they can win at one of the toughest venues in rugby without their usual baguettes (and croissants, pain au raisins etc). These breakfast items are where the real strength of the team lies but for this game they had to have Welsh rarebit, welshcakes etc which has often thrown them off in the past. However, this time they flew out a day later to push back the Baguette Hangover to game day while also used meditation techniques to imagine the rarebit as a croissant. If they can continue this form in the breakfast department they'll win the grand slam no doubt

Really strange you are talking about the referring, but *no* comment about the unbelievably bias in the first half against France. 5:20 Player is on the ground and grabs ball in front of the ref. 22:40 Player knocked without the ball during an up-and-runner. 27:41 Called forward right away despite misleading camera angle. 32:05 Imaginary offside. 35:10 When in doubt. 39:40 On his feet, right through the center. Yellow card. Fixed during the second half, the ref team obviously got a debrief during the break. How can anyone familiar with rugby not notice the bias is beyond me. If one team can complain after this match, it's France. No question.

As a French, I’m happy that we win even with 20 minutes 14vs15 and without Damien Penaud

oh boy, I wish I could understand your tactical analyses and jokes using british slang better. Even when putting the speed on 0.75, it's hard for the baguetty french I am

10:23 "He only tugged for a second, which is exactly what Huget told the judge...." My god Squidge, please never change.

Awesome vid as usual. About the ref though, he was particularly vigilant about the french guys for the whole 1st period and started changing the subject of his attention along the game. Tbh I'm pretty sure Biggar's behavior is to be mentioned as a reason for this. Boy does he open his mouth (and arms) during a game...

NTAMACK'S "Dou yu ripit pliz" at the end is as golden as his performance

Lol the referee favored Wales so much more than France. Example: Faletau’s turnover in the first half or the French “forward pass” or Wales all being offside on many phases. This is made clear by the 14 penalties conceded by France vs 6 for Wales. Despite this and being 14 v 15 for 20 mins, France still managed to win.

Squidge : France played the ref better than Wales. Romain Ntamack : Oulah, do you repeat the question ? You are sooooo overestimating the abilities of french players to play with the rules. You have no idea how impossible it is for french players to communicate with refs at the international level... I'm french and I experience it since ever with France, the players are not able to talk to the referee about anything complex because of their poor english. Half of the time the front row are just pretending they understand what the ref is telling them when he's not happy about the scrum because there is no way they can understand a technical explanation in english given in a welsh/irish/south african accent...

As a neutral South African, saying the French played the refs better than the Welsh did is disingenuous and just making excuses for the Welsh.

I am an American who absolutely loves rugby. Obviously I am still learning the game but I appreciate your detailed commentary and analysis. it helps me see the deeper play and why.

Nooo Squidge you talked about the referee! I think it's funny you say the french played him better when he had his eyes pretty much only on the french players

Nick Tompkins, is utterly class and one to watch... he made a few errors but the amount of superb plays was outstanding.

Merci de cette analyse technique, j'ai almost tout compris... Bravo aux 2 équipes Je me souviens de la demi finale Galles Afrique du Sud au dernier mondial, quel match c'était !

Média : FrEnch Shaun Edward's DeFenCE OMG UnPenetrable SQUIDGE RUGBY : PAPER PAPER PAPER

This was just a video trying to explain how werent 'as bad as we thought they were'. And yes I am English. But I was really happy for France and they deserve more credit than this gave.

Ok I'm French so not neutral here, but I really thought Wales' behavior was absolutely disgraceful before/during/after the game: first accuse the French of cheating in the press, complain to the ref constantly, start handbags at final whistle (these 2 courtesy of Dan 'Birdman' Biggar), and finally blame the ref for the defeat in a press conference. Very disappointing attitude from players and staff. I don't think I've ever seen a coach and captain speak that way, it's not just some drunken fan/keyboard warrior. I'd be ashamed honestly if Galthier/Ollivon acted like that.

"Matt Carlie is a nonce" -Squidge Rugby Context unnecessary

Was so waiting for this. Good vid everyone !

Completely disagree with you on the final turnover Squidge - Yes, the tackler didn't roll away, but at no point did the player even attempt to place the ball before Chat came in from the gate and got his hands all over it.

Aussie fan here. Died at the Quade Cooper comment when talking up Ntamack and his beautiful hair. Love your work squidge! 🤣🤣🤣

What a good video. I like your analysis. I am rench, and it took 10 years to get good young players. keep doing such good job Squidge! Just for the fun, when I was 7 years my sport teatcher was Jean Skrela (I am almost an old man now).

5) The ball is not knocked-on, and play continues, if: a) A player knocks the ball forward immediately after an opponent has kicked it (charge down). b) A player rips or knocks the ball from an opponent and the ball goes forward from the opponent’s hand or arm. As the ball has not fully left Ken Owens hand, there is no knock on, and therefore no deliberate knock on.

France is not a great team already, but it will become one. So many young and talented players still learning to play together, more defending and reacting than constructing. But when they'll master their game in every possible ways, they will be pretty scary to face. Thanks Squidge, for that brilliant analysis.

I had not noticed the possibility of penalising Vincent, but with the French no 16 already trying to wrestle the ball off Tompkins the penalty was obviously against Wales. In most cases the tackler is given a second or two.

Finally.... i've been waiting for this the whole week !

Another fabulous video, honestly. Such great work. Loved the outro too.

Squidge. your point of view of every game are uncontestable. Don't know if one day you'll work for the BBC (for example, hope not) but you and your brother have gold analysis materials. Keep on with the free speech! with love from France

Excellent commentary as usual Sir... 👏🏻👌🏻 Respect from sa.

One of my favourite videos so far

Squidge, good to see someone making a great analysis of Ntamack (Jr.). Since his debut I thought he had great promise but since the World Cup he has very much come into his stride. His father was a great player too, but I think Romain is already eclipsing him...

Quality as always! Love how you breakdown the plays and don't just give the generic overview you get on T.V.!

Loved your outro, still sore from this loss but great vid!

Dan biggar looked like a cartoon chick trying to take off from mama's nest, flapping the air up and down for 80 minutes! 😅

Been waiting ages for this. Great vid as always

We have been waiting for this since 2010 :D finally some glorious moment vs an excellent Welsh team. When we face the the Welsh the match is always epic :)

What a great analysis! Love your stuff man. Rugby is life, take care o7

Brilliant analysis Keep it up , love the videos

Absolutely love these videos.

Thanks for this meticulous analysis. It was a memorable game. "Je suis back" :D

Been waiting soooo long for this one! Keep going, your videos are great. Btw I'm french.

You are just great. Thanks for your amazing analysis.

Vive la france!!!!! I still dont understand the first yellow cqrd but i qdmit we were lucky on the willemse call... but biggar perfectly scored a try on ntamacks arm

I love this channel. Wish you had a segment on sky tv over here in NZ.

You know im not a fan of rugby since long years ago but im french and the most i can understand your video the most i love . you do a terrible job your passion to rugby is unbelievable continu bro you are fantastic. A french fan of 15 yo

Brilliant analysis, thank you

Fantastic analysis. Your are brilliant. Thank you and allez les bleus!

Brilliant didactic stuff, as ever!

Your analysis put a BIG emphasis on what I agree is a very good Welsh attacking platform, but then your only answer to how France won was the really poor, the French got away with it by playing to the ref! BTW, Is knocking the ball out of a players hands in the tackle a knock on?

Squidge- all you have to do to get Roumain's hairstyle is- get the same cut as him, blow dry the long bits upwards with plenty of setting mousse and then add lots of firm hold hairspray when you've finshed styling it. What I don't understand is how he still looks good when it is raining!

When you're too early for the good comments

Great Video!!

Last time I was this early England was onside

Great tactical analysis here!

Fun and informative as always, and I am getting so much better at listening to mumbled high speed speech. Loved the comment to your young supporter. That stuff is really important, especially as you are quite the big deal now. I really wish Super a rugby would let you shine your light on all the cool stuff they do. These a-holes.

I heard my coach screaming 20 blocks away when you called going for an interception as "good defence"

Excellent breakdown. On the money funny!

P. S you reminded me to text my mam to wish her a happy St David's day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Bring on the daffodils. I'm looking forward to spring 👍🍻🤗

"it''s llike if you gave Quade Cooper common sense and an incredible hairy head". 😂 gold.

finally an upload

Lol the Quade Cooper jab to describe Ntamack was brilliant HAHAHAHAH!!!!!

I just wanna say: ALLEZ LES BLEUS !

Was awaiting your pov on Biggar's whiny behaviour. Is it normal to ya ?

Merci pour cette explication 👍👍👍 Super vidéo ... Have a Nice day

Thank you once again! I`m just learning so much and its so entertaining! You could definitely consider a career in sports commentary bbc or something

we love you squidge we do, oh squidge we love you!!

For me that last ruck was always a penalty to France. He was in no way preventing Tompkins from releasing the ball, Chat was simply on Tompkins so quickly he never even had the opportunity to release the ball and secondly he was not placed in such a way to prevent the clear out. If he had prevented the clear out he would have been penalized and you can't say its him that prevented the release, it was clearly Chats speed over the ball. So penalty to France is the correct call, at least imo.

Bravo quelle belle vidéo

great stuff

Hey Squidge! American here, any chance you cover some MLR? Cheers!

Revenge taken. Beating them in Cardiff was much more intense than the quarter of finale. That was quite a game to watch. Hard for referees.

As ever my man Squidge, better analysis than all of the BBC pundits put together.

squidge if you want to do a story re rugby going behind a pay wall, i'd recommend using australia as a case study. Rugby's facing a lot of issues there, but the common problem is a lack of free-to-air coverage. interestingly also a parallel example in cricket both in australia and the uk in terms of broadcast rights

Excellent analysis Squidge. So, we all agree - it was the ref... :-)

Squidge needs to just make a diss track of CVC, 6Nations Ltd. and sky tbh

As always, IF YOUR TEAM cheats, little or big, you can have no sympathy when someone else fools an official at your expense. The 5:28 feature on how a one-off moment of class was pulled off to perfection was just as much great for neutrals to watch (SHOULD YOU HAVE ENOUGH IN YOU TO SAY "WELL DONE, SIR") as Rhys Webb's dummy for the opening try in the then-Millennium Stadium vs Australia 28-33 defeat was in 2012. Good video.

6:37 the try that came after Halfpenny knock on has more to do with the two welsh player focusing in making a cheeky screen leaving the channel unprotected

hi I know this match was last year but could you please do a review on the second Bledisloe cup match? it would be much appreciated

Pivac seems to be struggling to implement a wide attacking game with a team drilled by Gatland and Edwards to play a tight defensive game. France look encouraging; hopefully this Coronavirus panic won't the tournament called off, like some are predicting.

Correct me if I'm wrong: had Willemse been literally a millisecond earlier, the ball would still have been in the Welsh attacker's hands. It's legal to target the ball in a tackle and so Willemse would have just dislodged the ball in the act of tackling- right? If that's all true, it would seem harsh to judge it a deliberate knock-on when it's a millisecond away from an excellent tackle.

1:55 i love how he kicks and immediately gets taken out 😂😂😂

France is as good as an ice cold Carlsberg at 3pm on a February Saturday, and i lovethat

Superbe match

That was an intentional knock on

I don't wanna hear another peep about the knock down, France were robbed of a semi final in the world cup by Wales from the strip that went forward. Then in this game they had a fair try ruled out while one of Wales tries was very 50/50 as Biggar appeared to lose the ball onto the defenders arm before he regathered it, which would be a knock on. Sure there were calls that went against Wales but there were plenty against France too, they deserve the win fairly and look the goods for a grand slam this season, in fact they look like they could have one of the best teams for the next world cup, great coaching and great development going on there. One of their best players made his debut as an 18 or 19 year old, very impressive and I look forward to seeing how they go in the coming seasons

BTW Anthony Bouthier was playing amateur rugby four years ago

😂😂😂having spent the last couple of months watching the great war doc on KZfaq I loved the world war I point 😂😂😂

I can't believe you didn't mention the infringement by Teddy Thomas that was a trip on the wing to send the Welshman into touch which would have been a try for sure

merci les gars

That was fast

very good and accurate analysis bro!...And I know what I'm talking about ! : I'm French!....:)

I'm guessing your video on the Six Nations going behind a paywall will be a recreation of the Micheal Scott The US Office shouting "No, please god no!"?

If I were Welsh I would be very critical of Matt Tompkins decision-making. When he broke through at the end, he had the chance to offload but didn't. It would have been a try and a great fightback in my opinion.

Do you think Thomas should be in the french team? Seems to me like the only real weak link in that current starting line up atm

I went to watch it and France were so solid in defence and also Wales were very close to winning right at the end