Are the French being built up to take a long fall.
I think a lot of their chances are in relation to the 1998 world cup in soccer. France won it, but what makes anyone think that they will win it in the rugby, the rugby team has a poor home record over the last few years.
The pressure they face from their faces is huge, if they are not cheering their team they are booing them. They will expect a lot from their country (as does every "Top Tier" nation).
Its nice to have a favourites title but that too brings a lot of pressure.
Everyone has said that the french played fantastic games recently. not really. they were hammered by the all blacks, they then hammered a very poor english team and then barely beat them second time round. And finally beat a very scrappy Welsh team. These results are good but not spectacular looking back over the last few years. So they are playing well now it will be hard to keep it up, so how low could they drop.
Your opinions....
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