🇫🇷 La France; c'est magnifique | Six Nations Round 4 Review 

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Love the three wise fools, but Shane and Ben are such good additions to GBR. Real insight and rugby intelligence. Bravo.

Benjamin Kayser is a brilliant man, so easy to listen to. Get him on more.

Kayser is brilliant. He is the first person this week to actually analyse perfectly what England are and are not. Great insight.

As a French, it's always a pleasure to hear a podcast of that quality and to improve in English. I hope that I'll have the level of Ben Kayser in English one day haha.

Always a good episode with Ben Kayser!

Welsh listener here !! And I tune in every week. I'm an Ex-Pat living in Germany,help run a Rugby club here and am just a Rugby fan,whichever country it's played in. I fly back to Wales to watch the Scarlets but also try to get to English Premiership games (ie final) Love the game and being involved with the game.

First time I have viewed this channel and found it hugely enjoyable. (For full disclosure I am an Irish). Great for us geeks to have an in-depth conversation about the 6N matches and teams. All contributors excellent. Have missed Alex on Sky as he was always a consummate professional - knowledgeable about the game but also a superb interviewer. Benjamin a joy to listen to - passionate, proud but very humble and objective. Know Shaggy from listening to him on Irish TV for many years and always value his insights. Mike Tindall very honest about England's travails of late, so huge respect (even if I'm not convinced by his suggestions for the weekend 😁). I would love if the guys could discuss this topic in another video. As I understand it, the English RFU has had to cut funding massively to the lesser tiers of the English game over recent years, yet the execs of the RFU have increased their salaries and paid themselves full bonuses during this period , while the national team has been in decline. How are those people still in place? Who votes them in or out? The Welsh Rugby Union could be discussed in the same video! Thanks again for a great discussion.

I know lots of people keep saying it, but Ben is such an asset to tGtBtR. Wish you could get him on more. England will get better very quickly. Great podcast as always, from a SAFFA.

Hi guys, French guy here I loved your conversation, and I just can't wait for this WC, in anw case i'll be rooting for the northern hemisphere.

Shane Horgan sounds like a Freudian therapist trying to understand England rugby's relationship with its mother

This show just goes from strength to strength. The blend of ex-players and Alex Payne’s control of the narrative and conversation scope is just an utter treat. Best rugby programme on TV at present IMHO. THANKS FELLAS!

Shane Horgan comments at 4:50 echoes exactly what everyone used to say about the ABs back when they were untouchable… not a coincidence. England have been on a serious Slide since 2019 RWC Semi… never recovered from it. It will take at least 4 years to get back to a competitive level.

France team met John Spencer the Friday night at the hotel. He joked about Barbarians winning in twinckenham last year 52-22 to England B team (with many French players in it). Thanks John, massive respect

Stunning pod; Great insight from all three, well orchestrated, Mike T was on rare form, Ben K and Shane H managed convey delight without too much enjoyment at England’s plight. Really good!

I was relieved to see no Haskell this week. Usually he’s great but when England have a stinker he’s painfully protective over some of his old mates (which is admirable to be fair)

Mike T was brilliant tonight. Very honest 👍

Ben kayser is always a pleasure to listen to.

The sound levels are just lovely. Quite relaxing

Intelligent, respectful and objective. The difference between rugby and football. Keep it up!

0:01 - Show Begins 2:30 - Who was better... Ireland or France? 6:08 - Honda one-word review 10:14 - Jaw dropping France 15:20 - A weekend of stories 23:44 - What does Saturday mean to France? 30:01 - Mighty Ireland 39:17 - England troubles 57:42 - Should Eddie have stayed? 1:00:04 - "It's not an overnight decline" 1:08:12 - Worst International Days 1:11:30 - Italy vs Wales 1:15:58 - Domino's Doughballer of the Week 1:20:38 - Mystic Mike - Hask's Success!! 1:26:21 - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🛳

The France game was a victory for running rugby. Northern hemisphere sadly lacking in that department

Sounds like Tinds is saying that Premiership form isn’t that relative to test rugby. Where have we heard that before?

Really liked Tinds' comments on the game and what is missing for England.

49:15-50:29 Ben nailed it!👌

Looking forward to the Flament pod!

Great show. 👍

Such a cool to watch and hear show. The quatuor is délicieux and magnifique , the WTF moments make it even more of a confirmation : it can live up to one of my favourite movie name

Great analysis.

I love these breakdowns but please record them with louder audio, I'm trying to turn it up the entire time! 😅

In reality England need to forget about massive changes in order to hold Ireland back. They need to use it as prep to get ready in some way for the RWC.

French supporter here. I do appreciate the quality and fairness of the comments. And I do agree that 40 points is way too big a gap to reflect the difference between France and England at the moment. And there is no doubt in my mind that England will be in a better shape at the WC.

Did he say he’d select Slade again? Having a laugh surely

Great panel, Ben Kayser is a great regular addition. England need to keep to the coachs’ plan. Win on Saturday would be amazing, but getting into quarters and semis at least in World Cup is more important. No need for knee jerk over reaction and bringing in older players with limited reach into 2024. Borthwick and Co have had little time with an essentially young team, where young players are finally getting their chances.

Hansen is 6’2” and 14st. Or 1.88 and 89kg. And that weight could be out of date. Could be another few kg of weight gain since. He’s taller than Anthony Watson and around the same size as Will Jordan. He’s 4” taller than Sevu Reece and a few kg heavier.

Good memory from Payno. Aussies put 51 - 15 on the English in their next meeting after the 2003 WC Final. Rathbone with a hat-trick. Tindall at 12.

I'd struggle to pick three better pundits and certainly not a better ring master. If I had to pick one person to listen to forever about rugby then Tinds just tells it like it is - he has such a great grasp of every level of the game. Big hat tip.

If France keep their heads during the WC, I’d bet my holy communion money on them 😉

You say Wales didn't create anything, but they did. You make your own luck and only get the odd bounce of the ball if you create the chances for it to happen. Rio Dyer chased EVERY kick hard. Webb had some amazing kicks, including a sweet 50/22. There were several lucky bounces and moments for Ireland and France this weekend, but let's ignore that. Always seems to be such a fucking downer on Wales.

Are the dominos boxes always there?

Johnny Hill? You think he instills fear in the opposition? Against guys who’ve played and beaten Whitelock, Etzebeth, Flament, Retallick, Willemse etc.?

Gentlemen, France have pruned the roses last week, I hope no Deja Vu this week, We do like a Game, about Scotland one for Shane, Nervous Nearly. ☘️🇮🇪😄.

Very good gentleman

Why have you no dates on your tour in Belfast? You're in Cardiff and Edinburgh.

Merci Messieurs pour votre objectivité.

let me get this right. Slippery Bill sacked Eddie brought in Borthwick to improve the side. Yeah that's working

Would pay money to see roughneck Mac. Thats dlc content worth buying.

A good French team played a bad england side

Bon dieu, Benny le régime anglais lui réussit! Combien de kgs en plus ?

Englands pack just didn’t compete. Maybe they’re not physically big enough but so many of them didn’t even get stuck in which either says a poor mentality or a poor game plan/inability to adapt. Re watching the game it wasn’t all of them and Willis and Curry both grafted and competed so it’s unfair to blame just the back row for losing the contact area. But the backs don’t deserve to be let off the hook as many claim. Italy, Scotland and now France have opened up our midfield defence. Not having secure and quick ball explains why our attack was poor but it doesn’t explain 7 tries.

I had no idea how well Benjamin Kayser speaks English!

Really worried about playing england saturday ireland never won a gran slam in ireland

Surely at this stage, English rugby has to start asking why Andy Farrell is coaching Ireland and not England?

The first try was good, but England’s defence was schoolboy stuff. Can’t take anything away from France, but we seem to be in some kind of freefall 😢

Is the problem that the RFU gutted the Saracens set up and set back there best players? And not to forget the England conveyor belt which was Saracens academy system

Ireland England is on Saturday but they said it’s on St Patrick’s day?

I think they should put as near to the exact same squad as played France. See what they're made of

I hope England will quickly return to a good level. The real Crunch takes place between France and England. The matches against Ireland are interesting, but there is not the same passion or excitement. Also, since they have a good team, the Irish online fans are even more unbearable than usual...

To be honest Scotland played an already injured Finn Russell who was injured playing for Racing the week before which really destroyed Scotlands attack formations, Scotland was good for keeping Ireland only 1 try at half time, a fully loaded Scotland with no injury to Russell would have been a different game Gray and Gilchrist did not help matters in the pack or line-out and from an Irishman remember Scotland has 38k registered players vs Ireland registered players 158k Ireland will be compared to France and ABs good team is Ireland but the Scots are not crappie

Describe round 4 in an EMOJI.... 👇

What if. What if England just don’t have the players??

Tindall 54-55mins 100%. "F$ck the process off and deal with whats in front of you"...

1. Genge 2. George. 3.Sinkler 4.hill 5. Chessum 6.itoje 7. Pearson 8. Tom curry 9. Quirke/warr 10. Farrell 11. Arundell 12.Sam Simmons 13. Ben Earl 14. Radwan 15. Steward. And Benjamin K as spiritual coach. Yes, I have forwards for centers and I am not sorry.

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That's the problem with giving the fans "what they want" is most "fans" watch 5 games a year, and when they do watch they aren't sober and they frankly are utterly clueless about what makes a team work. The rea,listy is the "fans" aren't really fans at all, they are parrottsd for journalists with Agenda's. Smith is a classic example of this, he simply cannot defend, yet you have half cut idiots "he made 10 tackles on Saturday" So fucking what! he made 10 tackles and he got knocked 10 yeards backwards on 8 of them and his decision making was terrible, he causes so many problems for the people either side of him because he's so passive and timid, he never attacks the man, and gives the opposition so much time that others have to step out to engage them and try and force them to make a desicion when they don't want too. The fans wanted Eddie gone - look how that's gone. The fans wanted Smith - look how that's gone. The only time England have looked like a rugby team this year is when Farrell was playing 10 and yet teh only thing you see on the boards and in the press is how much they hate Farrell and how overated he is and that he should be dropped. Utter madness Owen Farrell has lost exactly 0 games playing ten this year, and his club team is by a fucking mile the best team in the league, primarily because they have a winning mentality like their 10 and the best coach in teh league. Who you'll note never got a mention for the England job.

Why is the lock down only for iPhone users? Shame

I like Benjamin Kayser's analysis of Fabien Galthie's reaction and especially his comment about Bernard Laporte who will come down as one of the biggest crooks in French rugby History. (not mentioning his vice president Serge Simon another scumbag). If I am not mistaken Fabien Galthie was the coach at Stade Français when Kayser was there earlier in his professional career. I am not buying Galthie's reaction either and that's what I fear. On one hand his group of players is exceptional, Galthie or no Galthie, they look self-driven the same way Stade Rochelais players are. BUT should things go wrong - injury to Dupont or what have you - will Galthie find the right words? Aldritt was saying this about ROG after La Rochelle's win in Dublin against Leinster: at half-time every player knew they had a job to do and they knew how to do it, there was no speech and most importantly no emotional speech, Hastoy talked the players through a few tactical adjustments and that was it, ROG said pretty much that they have a job to do, do it. Now, anyone who remembers Bernard Laporte as the French National coach (the most dreadful era of French rugby for me after PSA and Brunel considering Laporte had 8 years to do well in the World Cup and he did nothing on that particular front - tactically speaking it was a dreadful era), any French supporters will remember the disastrous effect Laporte had in the changing room reading the Guy Moquet letter (a young French resistant who wrote a letter to his mother if I recall before getting executed by the Nazis), after Laporte read that letter the players were so emotionally wrecked they could not play anymore. Some of them later reported that playing a game of rugby in the context of Guy Moquet's letter made absolutely no sense and all they wanted from that point onwards was to get home to their families. Players were crying. Laporte was an absolute idiot. He had no sense of proportion, no dignity, he was a negatively cunning character. Everyone remembers the 1/4 in Cardiff against the All Blacks, it was obvious there was zero gameplan and the players just took it by the scruff of the neck. The two games against Argentina were tactically dreadful and so was the semi against England. So to have Galthie praising Laporte the way he does is a little bit too much indeed because Laporte has ZERO contribution to the results other than getting the 2023 RWC home. Now from a coaching viewpoint Galthie and Laporte are worlds apart (one having played in Colomiers and the other in Beziers - the most boring one trick pony side in French rugby History), granted it is not so much Galthie but his former fly-half teammate at Colomiers Laurent Labit who is in charge of the tactical plans. Lose Labit and Galthie will be in trouble I think. I still believe the target was to beat Ireland at the 6N, Twickenham was not. And Galthie had specifically said after the Italy game that the preparation was made for Dublin. It was not obvious, that's what I fear with him. Somehow he does not seem to have ever been able to tell his players what they need or do not need to hear when things get tough...

England’s failings aren’t all that surprising, you have two fly halves playing outside centre and wing, a fullback with good stature for the position but lacks pace easily skinned on the outside by opposition in 1v1 situations, a number 8 who isn’t really up to international level and they’re also missing an out and out 12, all this talk of Manu doesn’t make sense he was never pushed as a 12 for England.

I’m sorry Mike, I know you’re a beast, but you did not do 12,000 km in 12 hours

we have to say that every thing turn rigt for france for this match

Please please 🙏 no red cards on Saturday

Prediction: zach mercer will transform the England team next season

Another wonderful show without you know who😮 A very interesting discussion that threw up a few points that might benefit from further discussion- Without a dominant pack, NO flyhalf can be effective, especially Smith in my opinion. Attacking , free flowing rugby ( the sort touted by Ugo Monye et al ) might excite some, but isn’t necessarily the style that wins anything, see Harlequins trophy cabinet for evidence. Since when do you listen to fans or media? SB came into Leicester, made bold decisions, simplified the plans, clarified both the objectives & responsibilities. Lastly, Sweeney must go, I can’t believe he has met any of his objectives, has overseen the loss of 2 clubs, has personally destroyed the management team of the biggest club in the country, has blown millions doing this Discuss…

A player by the name of Joel kpoku needs to be brought back to England urgently. 6ft7 125kg skillful, powerful and mobile.

Haskell is the worst pundit on the channel but the reality is he helped create the show. So need to have some loyalty. But from an analyst perspective he adds very little.

What happened to England ? They got rid of Eddie Jones Lol

"conservatively" :)

#jackvanpoortvlietOut

England miss George kruis

£10 the NH still lose the World Cup

They seem to be totally writing NZ off as a team that could win the WC…. At their peril…🤫

An overall lack of athleticism and stamina across the park The players tend to have one or two key attributes they're really good at but then tend to be bang average elsewhere ATM Not a single England player at the moment gets into a world 23 let alone a world 15

after All Blacks we got Holey Whites !!! 🤣

Oh, is Ireland or France going to win the RWC2024?!?!😢😮😅. What about the SH countries such as New Zealand, South Africa or Australia?!?! Let us see!!!!! Ha ha🎉

I think it's a sad day where we're saying that the brilliance of the Premiership doesn't prepare England for their internationals. I'd stop watching rugby if the Prem got boring and was a drudge fest like some internationals can be. But then other international teams are playing with flare so I don't know if the argument holds.

Steve Borthwick happened to England

What happened to England they got kicked off their own rugby stadium and now there’s not much the England supporters can say other than France played magnificent which is true and that must hurt 😂😂 England needs to turn table on Ireland 🇮🇪 and find the gold or their potatoes anything less the road to the World Cup and the tournament looks like a holiday in France 🎉🎉🎉 or sack the coach AGAIN 😮😮😮

💩 on the bed. That's what happened.

why does everyone say they are shocked by english score ? less then a year ago they were whacked by a tier b french team with similar margin, penaud (2) and olivon scored then as well! france turned up with A team this time though! borthwick is to close to club level to be good yet! english rugby is not doin enough at 18+ level, junior and seniors playing in france now with less clubs they should have to spend some money!

Where the fuck is Hass? Comon , man up!

Hahaha 12,000 km in twelve hours? You can row at a thousand kph? Someone clearly didn't imbibe the humility lesson from this weekend

I don't hate Haskell but the show was much better without him

What's up with the English pundits ? Have they gone Woke ? Get a grip!

The french is a bit boring minimizing France performance ...

What’s with the favouritism to Ellis Genge? Acting as if he’s England best player. He’s apart of a failing front row, average at scrummaging and is not a STARTING test player

When is someone going to just say it! It looks like Ireland and France are geared up.

France is better than Ireland. Three victories for the last four games