So, France won, and as Ed said, Laporte looks like a genius. Well, sort of. His plan was clearly to keep it tight, be in range at half time and then hit the Kiwis in the second half, without the time to recover. And they did, credit to them. I still stand by my earlier post, in the first half, they played the kicking game, and were facing a meek defeat. Jauzion hardly saw any of the ball. In the second half, they came out and played, crucially, Jauzion saw the ball. In the build up to Dusatoir's try, he was involved several times, and made telling contributions. There is a caveat to all this: there were two forward passes in the run up to Jauzion's try, and I'm sure Ed will post about that. In fact, this game didn't so much remind me of '99, as 2003, when a previously misfiring Aussie team did for the All Blacks. That game showed a perfect example of a clearly thought out game plan, executed to the word. Anyway, for the above reasons, Jauzion was my man of the match, though Dusatoir looks like a real find.
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