I'd agree with that darkstar. I've been a fan of the French rugby team for going on 25 years. They can be both exhilarating and exasperating in equal measure. They love to throw the ball around and will look beatable. On their day, when things work for them, it looks attractive but against a well disciplined team they get frustrated, and loose it. The Aussies tonked them (in France) last year and made them look very poor indeed. They have become more measured and controlled in recent years but, sadly, you never really know who is going to turn up when they take the field.
I personally thought France were poor today. Good in passages but overall poor. That last Scottish try was a loss of concentration and shouldn't have happened. On the weekend's performances, I'd back England to beat them... but then England have hardly been consistent over that last few seasons! So who knows?
With the Irish looking so pedestrian in Italy, I reckon there's no real shoe-in this time around. I'll have to have a look at the fixture list; see who's where and when.
