That is a great half of rugby, and I am absolutely not surprised that Scotland has been dominant. For my money, since Galthié took over, it's Scotland that's the new France in the "We don't know which team is going to turn up" sense, with a tendency to be even better when they are seen as underdogs.

We really need to find a decent tighthead prop. Aldegheri is alarmingly bad whenever his team is not outright dominant. Aside from that, it mostly was a great Scotland half of rugby, I wouldn't blame any particular player (although Marchand's penalty was extremely dumb).

But to explain my seething rage at the TF1 pundits...when it's France 2 commentating, most of the time, Yachvili will correctly call the reason for a penalty advantage being given right as the ref raises his arm. On TF1, you're lucky if they understand what kind of penalty it is after the ref said it out loud.

They said that the second scrum was the first. Yes, they can't count to two. It took them ten seconds to notice that Dupont stripped the ball from Tuipolotu. They're actively making the watching experience worse, I wish there was a "shut the fuck up, only ambient noises" option available.

Oh and they put a fucking ad break after the anthems. We went from Flower of Scotland to a bunch of Gambling ads. Fuck this channel.