Team of villagers, Pinder oval circus Masked Australia-France Act 1

Even at 12 noon and wedged at the same time as the Euro and the Tour de France, Masked Oval did not miss the first test between Australia and France.The end of the match feasted it...

The 2020-2021 season is a bit like the covid: when you think it's finally over, it takes up stronger!After two European cups, a top 14, an Autumn Nations Cup and a 6 nations tournament, what better than a small tour of the planet with three games in 10 days to allow the gladiators of international rugbyto regenerate a little.

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Well wedged between the Euro, the Tour de France and the Olympic Games, with matches scheduled during the week at noon, this series of test games against Australia had every chance of going completely unnoticed.But our Blues decidedly allergic to anonymity have found a way to be talked about with a new end of the match as well managed as a health bubble. Au moins on ne peut pas nier qu’il y a une réelle patte Galthié : on maîtrise tout jusqu’à la fin 79^e, et après, on laisse le French Flair faire sa magie.To believe that they do it on purpose just to help me make my reports!

The film of the match

The calendar of French rugby being what it is, it is without a part of its holders that the XV of France approaches this first test.Top 14 finalists are on vacation, while some executives like Charles Ollivon are missing from injuries.Gaël Fickou, he stayed at home to give himself a time to reflect and decide if he wishes to change nationality during the season.It is therefore with an experimental team that the Blues present themselves in Brisbane ... but a team that still has a face on paper.There are two or three intriguing stuff, such as USAP players or the presence of Teddy Fucking Iribaren, but a priori nothing that could push us to ridicule ourselves of ridicule.

Looking at the two team compositions, it is ultimately on the Australian side that we find the most strangers.But that's normal, it is because no one gets up at 8 am on Saturday to listen to Francis Delteral to tell his stories of father Castor during an old waratahs - rebels on Canal + quirky.We still spot the familiar face of Michael Hooper, still in the running to exceed 200 selections before his 35th birthday, or a half of opening named Noah Lolesio.But contrary to what his surname suggests, it is not he who will explode with laughter during our break in the south (but I suppose you are already aware of it).It was this brave Lolesio who kicked off the meeting, and from the first moments, we feel that the men of Fabien Garthié did not come to take selfie with kangaroos.First alert with Damian Penaud, who intercepts an Australian pass and goes to the test, but the Blues were in the offside.

The opening of the score will not be long.On a scrum introduced by the Australians in their 22m, the Blues put the pressure and manage to recover the balloon.Macalou serves Jelonch, who manages to get in touch for Couilloud, then it was Danty who makes a laser pass on a step for Villière, who only has to trans inside to beat two defenders and go and score.The sequence is perfect, and we notice that Jelonch has already become Toulousain since he now performs aufelodes rather than rushing down down like a rabid beekeeper.Only shade on the board in this start of the match, Louis Carbonel misses the transformation, yet rather easy.But hey, it will probably have no impact on the continuation.0-5.

A little upset to be hit by this team of villagers, the Wallabies quickly return to the game, well helped by a beautiful pizza in touch of Barlot, which seems to definitely prove that outside of Julien Marchand, no hooker knows how to do alaunch properly in France.The Green and Gold enter the 22m, and Jake Gordon finds Hunter Paisami (totally a manga character name) in the meantime with a beautiful cord pass.The center rushes towards in-goal after having overthrown Villière, yet the author of a brave tackle.After examination to the video, the test is nevertheless refused for a pass by not obvious, or in any case no more than that of Danty a few minutes earlier.To the comments of Canal +, Marc Lièvremont tells us that he would have granted him, which seems to definitely prove that this man is too honest for his own good.

Free warning for the Blues, who come out of this Australian strong time without taking a point.And a few seconds later, it is even they who add three, thanks to a good contest that offers a penalty to carbonel.0-8.

The advantage of having a coach who has a vague idea of what a game plan is is that no matter the players present on the match sheet, there is always a certain paw on the field.In this case, that of Fabien Galkié consists in touching the ball twice per half-time, and scoring three tests.On such a simple game launch that it must even be feasible on the Rugby 20 video game, Danty sets the defense in the middle of the field and serves Villière inside.The Toulon winger gushes like Wout Van Aert in full ascent of the Ventoux, and it will only be seen behind the line.Bim, it's already 0-15.Faced with the naivety of the opposing defense, one wonders still if we are not playing Romania.In view of the FFR deficit, taking plane tickets for Bucharest was surely less expensive than for Sydney, and as there is no journalist on this tour anyway, we can imagine that the deception was easy toascend.

A quick glance at the face of certain players nevertheless makes it possible to evacuate doubt.We have a dozen pacific colossi looted in the islands next door, and Australian pure with consanguine heads who live in briefs in a caravan in the middle of the bush, like Tate McDermott and its fantasticquickdraw.

Above all, the locals are starting to return to the match little by little and monopolize the balloon.The Blues chain the faults but avoid the yellow card with the same empowerment as a runner of the Bahrain Merida team avoids positive controls (good promised, last reference to this lean sport).Wallabies do not take the penalties and insist on marking the test.A choice that ends up paying when Paenga-Amosa will flatten after a ball worn.7-15 after the transformation of Lolesio.

It will be the score for the break for French not necessarily brilliant, but serious and opportunistic.Those who already imagined a branch worthy of the best summer tours of the 2000-2010s can therefore be reassured.

The second act starts roughly on the same bases as the end of the first, with voluntary Wallabies and Blues as unruly as kids in your train wagon departing from the holidays.Lolesio adds three points, 10-15.After a very beautiful candle bazed by Banks, the men of Anthony Jelonch offer us one of their rare offensive sequences of the second period, which leads to a penalty in front of the posts.Carbonel the pass, 10-18.We nevertheless feel that the frog eaters are more and more in difficulty, including in the melee sector, and being dominated by Australia in melee is never pleasant.Let’s specify all the same that Dave Rennie brought his best impact-player to the post of right pillar, Taniela Tupou, nicknamed the “Thor Tongien”.But in France also we have avengers, with Dylan Cretin the Hawkeye of Haute-Savoie, the one who is in the team even if we do not know what he is used for.

Dominators, the Australians even pass very close to scoring after a nice kick to follow in the in-goal.Fortunately, we are witnessing at the first moment certified Cirque Pinder of this match (not the last, again I imagine that you are already aware) when the winger Tom Wright escapes the ball in the end.Couilloud does not manage to control the leather either, but fortunately, the referee whistles an in-avant who prevents us from collecting a gag video trial.

Wallabies find it difficult to materialize, but they rely on their melee again to reduce the scoring on penalty, 13-18.The blue, they are ruthless: even when they do not have the ball, they obtain opportunities to score, and a scratch of Danty offers a great opportunity to Melvyn Jaminet, loaded with distant kicks.The USAP player does not ask questions, like his parents when they decided to put a y in his first name.13-21.

Despite this comfortable advantage, young French people are always weaned with balloons, and the replacement bench does not invert the trend.Falatea does honor to the capacities of the Clermontois to excel in the Money Time with two in front, while Etrillard is not more reassuring than his predecessor in touch.Finally, the Galactic Teddy Iribaren, the Finn Russell Basque, comes into play to honor his first selection at an age when Jefferson Poirot and Sébastien Vahaamahina had already announced their international pensions.We then know that the melee half replacing Racing 92 will highlight either with a 60 -meter chistera, or by doing absolutely anything (but again I suppose that you are already aware of what heGo choose).

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While waiting for this moment of glory, the Wallabies continue their offensives, always based on the harshness of their forwards.And it ends up cracking a second time on the blue side, when Michael Hooper will flatten a particularly ugly test.But in rugby there is no artistic note, otherwise Scotland would already be 8 times world champion.

It starts to heat for blue asses and we feel the tricolor staff (Fabien Garthié, Raphaël Ibanez and Anthony Bouthier - he must be part of the staff since he attends all the matches by the sidelines without ever returning) is in fullstress.Lolesio misses a drop of little, then it is Tupou who tears the French defense by breaking two tackles - because as everyone knows, to stop Taniela you have to get three.But behind it gives nothing, Paisami committing a doubtful choice with a pass on the feet on the wing which goes directly in touch.The three-quarter center will reoffend a few seconds later with a new game at the foot when only one minute left to play.How can we do more silly?(yes, I know, you know how, wait, it happens).

On what we think is the last Australian opportunity, Danty again takes on the hero's costume with a scratch of which he has the secret.The Blues decide to type, when it might have been more prudent to keep the ball and run the time for 30 seconds.Carbonel finds a touch of mini-pushing and behind, the long-awaited masterpiece.

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All that can be to do in one action, the Blues will do it.And with what panache.First, we decide to launch at the bottom of the sidelines rather than playing safety.Then Cretin deviates the ball behind him rather than trying to capture it.Iribaren is lobed and catastrous's ball, chased by this devil of Tupou, launched like a T-Rex on a chihuahua.Instead of giving the ball to Jelonch, solid enough to bury the ball calmly, the melee half swings the ball to Jaminet, who has no more comfort to clear.The rear stuck this ball which takes on the appearance of a pomegranate pomegranate in Damian Penaud, whose race is simply inexplicable.It looks like a video game bug, or a labrador that would have heard a squirrel in a bush.Even Yoann Huget was shocked.

Fatally, the ball is recovered by the Australians, who embark on a long shelf phase.It doesn't give anything, and after a new missed drop attempt, the referee returns to an advantage because the Blues have still committed 12 faults on the action.Faced with the posts, Lolesio does not miss the inevitable, 23-21.This match could have become historic, if France had won in Australia for the first time in 30 years.He will remain so for another reason, a little less glorious but ultimately so much funnier, and above all so much more French.

Of course, we laugh a little, but it would be too easy and too cruel to load this young Bricorama team, who prepared for this meeting in very specific conditions.The fact remains that we are forced to notice that if the matches lasted 78 minutes, the XV of France would already be largely favorite to win the next World Cup.Let's console ourselves with this thought: we have 2 years left to learn to play two more minutes, it should do it.

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