So how did France secure the Slam? | Six Nations 2022 

As a scrum half I cannot express how excited I am at the prospect of a Dupont vs De Klerk game

"Le slam du grand" has joined "omelette du fromage" on the list of amazing frenglish phrases. But French do call it "Le grand chelem". "Chelem" being slam's translation.

Let’s just appreciate how much effort squidge work

Been waiting on this and yet again Squidge doesn’t let is down. Also that intro was hilarious 😂

Villière's clear out on Itoje at 13:48 is just so typically brilliant of the man.

"Make Antoine Dupont cry again" #RWC2023 💙🤍❤ Thank you Squidge Rugby for France's new slogan !👌

That. Was. Magnificent. Well done mate.

Something that's interesting to add is that France conceded a cumulative ten points (!) in the last quarter of all its games this 6N. That's 10 points in 100 minutes or so. 3 points against Ireland from Carbery at the 73rd, 7 against Scotland from VDM's try at the 80th. (I'll add they also conceded none against the ABs this Autumn). Stopped England and Wales from scoring a single point after the 60th mark despite being on the backfoot for most of that period. Galthié and his staff had identified the last quarter as being the team's main weakness last year. All the games France lost in the 2020-2021 season were lost within the last 10 minutes, many of them on the siren. So they simulated those kind of tense last minute scenarios over and over again to get it right.

France won the most entertaining grand slam in Modern history

Without doubt the best rugby analysis channel on RU-vid. Someone in the media needs to pick this guy up its fantastic. As a French fan I just hope his analysis doesn't give the game away.

The thing that baffles me is when did France suddenly become consistent? Looks like the apocalyse is upon us. The French Rugby Union Team being consistently good!?! Dogs and cats living in harmony!?!!?! MASS HYSTERIA!!!?!????!?!??!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤪🤪🤪🤪

Teared up when I saw Dupont cry, I think i saw him more like a rugby machine than a human being until now

Well, brilliant video! Thanks for your huge work. Regards from France! Vive le Rugby ! 🏉🇮🇹🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇵🇦🇷🇦🇺🇳🇿🇯🇵🇫🇯🇼🇸🇹🇴

Thoroughly enjoyed this, can’t wait for France vs South Africa I’m backing the French 🇫🇷

Excellent analysis. Loved the spotting of the French pretend Rucks…. V good Prof Squidge

Thank you ! Great job !

Hi Squidge Rugby ! Once again, a relevant analysis with a lot of humor! Even if you speak a little too fast for my French brain and some jokes must escape me. Indeed, if the philosophy of the French game under Galthié is clear and simple: create movement and bring the ball to life at all costs and as fast as possible, the strategy as you analyze it is perfect: 1/ overwhelm; 2/ overload; 3/ overpass: either by stretching or by perforating. But please… Stop revealing everything to everyone in rugby world 😁😅🙃… Because on October 28, 2023, we all want to cry like Antoine Dupont.

I'd also give a shout-out to Maxime Lucu for his monumental improvement over the last 12 months He's in sensational form at the moment. He was unbelievably good for Bordeaux against La Rochelle and is really running the show for them in Jalibert's absence I think it also makes great team dynamics having two club pairings as our halfback pairings (Dupont Ntamack and Lucu Jalibert) The halfback partnerships compliment brilliantly to have 2 "maverick"s and 2 "general"s. Dupont and Jalibert are our "mavericks" and Lucu and Ntamack our "generals" (though all 4 can adopt traits of the other style). Our optimal halfback pairing will be 1 general and 1 maverick to give us great balance in the halves I think we've got the perfect halfback quartet right now to take us through the world cup Beyond 2023 we will have the likes of Le Gerrac competing with Lucu and Serin for the bench spot and Couilloud aiming to compete with Dupont

Fabien Galthié was World Rugby International Player of the Year in 2002, this might explain somewhat why he is a good coach.

Quel hommage ! Thank you kind sir !

So happy to see you back with once more a great video. Thank you so much for all your great content!

Squeeeeeeeedge!! that was necessary. thanks, it's so mind blowing to understand the tecnical movements behind the plays as a non-player. Well done!! YUH!!

I remember watching the attack structures from the Wibble Rugby video! Now I'm hearing it again and it's like I'm a student watching a class and thinking "wait I read that somewhere". Once again another amazing video Squidge, if it weren't for you I wound't be so into rugby, which is rare here in Portugal

Great video Squidge! This level of analysis is sublime already and yet I feel we can go deeper yet. I also think some credit should be attributed to William Servat and Karim Ghezal for France's ruck speed as they're the coaches responsible for supervising the "conquête", which means any moment the ball can be contested (which includes the set pieces but also the breakdown).

I waited so long for this one 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Amazing video, been waiting so long for this video and i am not disappointed!!!

Excellent analysis as always!!! 👏👍

The beautiful paradoxes of rugby are that yes, we won the Slam but I never felt we were hitting top gear in any game ; strangely I thought we played better last year.

Bro, your analysis works are amazing. Thx so so much 🙏

That was really fantastic. It’s incredible how you keep producing videos that are at such a high standard.

Yaaaaas you legend, thanks for picking it up after the monstrous effort during the tourney!!

Fantastic video, once again I am learning so much which really brings to life this incredible sport.

This was a long time coming squidge but man, how good was this analysis. And you put so much emotion in it !! 👏👏👏

13:11 As a South African, I'm F*CKING TERRIFIED at the prospect of playing France this November. At this rate I'd rather face NZL in the quarters, bc we don't fear them anymore(not to be arrogant, but NZL isn't the rugby gods they used to be in recent years anymore). Yet this French team is a once-in-a-generation team which is almost invincible like the 2015 ABs. I hope our defense can match their attack and that we might barely scrape by with regards to physicality in the forwards.

Cracking vid, I may be biased as an Irishman (good start right) but I also noticed how much of a difference the ball presentation made for us in our attack this six nations, I thought ours was a bit more noticeable from the ball carrier's effort than France (though it may have been because we didn't play that long against 15 aha)

Thanks for uploading this video mate!!! 💪🏉🏉

can not fathom how much time and dedication those videos require ! Un phénoménal merci for that 6 nations, you made it even more enjoyable ! Allez les Bleus !

Your ads are always so funny - literally the only RU-vidr I don’t fast forward the ads on.

Thanks so much for you videos, they are brillant.

Wow. Amazing video. So well written. Thanks Squidge!

The video we’ve all been waiting for! Our mate Squidge didn’t disappoint x

So you still haven't hear of Colomiers, have you ? Galthié was their n°9, and guess who was their 10 ? Labit... :D and its the exact same method (plus a sprinkles of Shaun Edwards at the defense and Ibanez at the scrum) of 1-3-3-1 moving diamonds formation(s) where any player can be called to play any role. It takes a huge rooster of talents, but France has it (and watch the U20 and U18 games lol). We're rolling onwards a decade of French domination.

Drôle, original et intéressant... good analyse mate ; thank you for your humor.

So interesting to learn about those offensive systems. I didn't see that explanation before. thank you very much indeed

Thks again for your analysis. It is evident for some time that the speed Dupont clears the ball from the base, is a game changer for the way the Tricolours want to play.

man. You're quite an author, technician and editor! Hats off.

0:30 Squidge, "A pack almost as big as Romain Ntamack's balls". 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Incredible video as always

Everytime you release a vid my day gets a lot better cheers Robby

Thoroughly enjoyed this. France vs SA is going to be mental.

Brilliant, as usual thank you squidge

Nice👌. Worth the wait.

Thank you Squidge for the great work! Allez les Bleus in November 😍

I love every time you use that Tommy Bowe clip

Merci pour l'analyse!

Great review. This year guys I want to see France and the Springboks clash.

09.00 What a brilliant analysis!!!

Splendid stuff. Every time.

2:50 "yeah fire this vahaamahina into the sun" 🤣

finally, i look forward to finishing this

Merci beaucoup pour cette chouette vidéo ! :D

I don’t speech French but it was fun to see them just ball out

Thanks for the video, worth the wait.

Always brilliant!!

Thank you !

Dieu te bénisse Squidge

I was literally thinking before I clicked on this video God it would be nice if squidge gave us a video on Eddie. This man always delivers, and promises the goods

Alldritt's ball presentation (giggity) is superb. Always seem to extend an outstretched hand ready for Dupont to whip the ball away.

As a fan of Handball (in which France is best team in world for like last 20 years) a lot of combinatorics through center formations that France do in rugby reminds me of Handball combinatorics when you try to open opponent in the middle

The background flash of Tommy Bowe had me in stitches. Welcomingly unexpected.

Thanks so much for these videos. A quick suggestion, as a non native english speaker I use the subtitles (because damn, you speak fast). So i miss a few of the overlayed comments you put on the video, they are hidden by the subtitles when they are at the bottom part of the screen. Keep up and the good work, and let's hope we'll see Antoine cry again!

It was worth the wait !

tres bon travail . merci .

Thank you for giving them all our tactics away!

Brilliant, just brilliant.

Watching this instead of doing my French homework

Thats was awesome

The continual Tommy Bowe references get me every time

very very exciting at all

I'm really looking forward to watching the boks play this French team

I hate how confident we are that South Africa will make the finals again. As a South African I hate having this much confidence in our team. But I'm really looking forward to seeing the 2 teams play in the world cup final next year.😅

I love this video

Well, this video is very very good

Re: Jones: was the crosskick at Villiere just the first time he‘s coached a side with a tall wing against a short wing since he pulled the same move with Tuqiri on Robinson in '03?

Will the French be able to play as fluidly if the boks strangle the French forwards?

luv that

i cannot wait for FRance South Africa !!!:)

Fingers crossed we can get a France vs All Blacks rematch this year. Would be great to take them on and win!

see i’m not a crier at all but at the minute aldritt kicked the ball out of the field and it was game over, the grand slam was won, i fucking BAWLED. and now every time i see antoine dupont cry i cry again. what a team

c'est vrai que ces joueurs ont une incroyable intelligence de jeu.

Shaun Edwards brought France the defence they needed for them to run their batshit crazy beautiful attack. Well deserved and “long time” coming grand slam for France. Just sad Wales lost Edwards, he even said he wanted to stay. We should have given him the world mun.

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I hadn't noticed the false rucks

Amazing that this is free tbh. The media world is changing

"human hamster" "micro maestro" 😁

this was a long way of saying "Shaun Edwards"🤣

It's complicated but simple rugby. They play what's in front of them. Simplest but also hardest thing in rugby.

Deacon Manu style!

The best ax always

Oh sh** are my springboks playing against France in Paris this November? We must rip Fabian Galthie's google off him and hit Antoine Dupont unconscious with his own coach's googles. But that will be very very hard. I'm not suer if we can beat t France this year particularly because it's in Paris.