{"id":24,"date":"2010-02-14T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-02-21T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T12:14:38","slug":"france-ireland-paris-13rd-of-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; Ireland (Paris, 13rd of February 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, Ireland will not win the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Slam_(rugby_union)\">Grand Slam<\/a>&#8221; for sure this year&#8230; but France will most likely do.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stade_de_France\">&#8220;Stade de France&#8221;<\/a> it&#8217;s freezing. <\/p>\n<p>I put my scarf over the heat on my head to get some more warm. Match starts.<\/p>\n<p>What I see is a magnificent team&#8230; very strong with their forward and back rows (Domingo and <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lionel_Nallet\">Nallet<\/a> above all)&#8230; fast, concrete, concentrate at the half side (Francois Trinh Duc and Morgan Parra are simply perfect and the last one gets also a score of 100% at kicks, which is not bad at all) &#8230; Poitrenaud, Jauzion and Palisson (both first two score excellent tries and the last one would have probably done if he was not rouled out by a Flannery&#8217;s bad fault). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_O%27Driscoll\">O&#8217;Driscoll<\/a> (excellent again) is not enough for Ireland today. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Sexton\">Jonathan Sexton<\/a>, (who is on for the last fifteen minutes of the second half) cannot make more.<\/p>\n<p>Something still to improve at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Line-out_(sports)\">line-outs<\/a> for France (they score a 70% something. Indeed, Ireland is very strong over there&#8230; but if &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89quipe_de_France_de_rugby_%C3%A0_XV\">Equipe de France<\/a>&#8221; succeed, they will win the tournement for sure (their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Chelem_de_rugby_%C3%A0_XV\">Grand Chelem<\/a>&#8221; as well?)<\/p>\n<p>See you on the 14th of March for Italy then (hopefully, with most of your best player&#8230; come on!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbs6nations.com\/en\/matchcentre\/15933.php\">13th February 2010 16:30<br \/>\nStade de France Six Nations<br \/>\nFrance 33 v 10 Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, Ireland will not win the &#8220;Grand Slam&#8221; for sure this year&#8230; but France will most likely do. At &#8220;Stade de France&#8221; it&#8217;s freezing. I put my scarf over the heat on my head to get some more warm. Match starts. What I see is a magnificent team&#8230; very strong with their forward and back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo.grassi.eu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}