Lions Tour

Started by bennydorano, June 03, 2017, 07:50:25 AM

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Wildweasel74

Beat a team by 3 playing against a team with 14 for 55mins, other way round there been 40 in it. Embarrassing they only won it by 3 to be honest. Listening to the RTE radio 1 you think they won the world cup lol

Kilkevan

Quote from: Syferus on July 01, 2017, 10:26:01 AM
No one tell the tubes who thinks the Lions don't matter.

Lmfao... It doesn't take much to get you talking rubbish again. Running off at the mouth after scraping through against 14 men for 3/4 of the match  ::). No-one said the Lions don't matter, most people said they don't matter as much to them as their national team. Only a tube/fanboy would celebrate a Lions victory in NZ more than an Irish/Welsh/English/Scottish one. Don't get those Farrell and Faletau posters sticky now!

screenexile

Beating a team that hasn't lost at home in 47 matches is no bad achievement they won the match and that's all that was needed. 2 tries to 0 isn't bad either!

bennydorano

Tried their best to f**k that up. Came good last 15m. Hard to see anything bother than a NZ win next week.


gallsman

Seemed to be quite a bit of mouthiness at the end there. Don't think poking the bear is advisable. Sinckler looks to be a bit of a hot head. It took a few of the lads to hold him back from losing the penalty he'd won

Thought Murray and O'Brien were absolutely magnificent from the Irish lads.

Wildweasel74

There be 20 plus in it next week, The only game of rugby I have ever seen a 14 man team win was Ireland against South Africa last year. There's a 95% win rate for teams playing against 14 men so I wouldn't poke the bear as you would say.

Kilkevan

Quote from: gallsman on July 01, 2017, 10:40:02 AM
Seemed to be quite a bit of mouthiness at the end there. Don't think poking the bear is advisable. Sinckler looks to be a bit of a hot head. It took a few of the lads to hold him back from losing the penalty he'd won

Thought Murray and O'Brien were absolutely magnificent from the Irish lads.

Looked like it was about to kick off at the end but calmed down quickly fortunately.

screenexile

Quote from: gallsman on July 01, 2017, 10:40:02 AM
Seemed to be quite a bit of mouthiness at the end there. Don't think poking the bear is advisable. Sinckler looks to be a bit of a hot head. It took a few of the lads to hold him back from losing the penalty he'd won

Thought Murray and O'Brien were absolutely magnificent from the Irish lads.

Sinckler did well when he came on though, George was excellent. Murray and O'Brien very good but gave away a few penalties each as well. Thought Sexton did well too with limited ball and Vunipola shouldn't start the next day!

Syferus

Winning in NZ pokes the bear a lot more than fücking handbags at the end. Assuming there's a bear in the first place is the problem.

NZ are mortal and we've seen that a few times over the last year.

Applesisapples

Beating 14 men with a team picked from 5 or 6 different countries?

bennydorano

Or you could look at it as throwing together a team from the British Isles (or North West European Archipelago for the snowflakes), getting them to gel socially as well as professionally, coaching them and getting them  tactically to perform in a few weeks to beat an All Black's side. No mean feat really. 

The Sky fanboys in commentary would annoy you tho. All Black's are still better and will show it next week imo.

gallsman

Quote from: bennydorano on July 01, 2017, 12:06:37 PM

The Sky fanboys in commentary would annoy you tho. All Black's are still better and will show it next week imo.

Watched the game with kiwi commentary on TSN. Much more enjoyable!

ashman

NZ are not the team of a few years back but I still fancy them to win 3rd test .

sid waddell

An incredible morning of high drama that shows exactly why a British Lions test series is the pinnacle of rugby union football.

A Lions tour is all about finding those men of officer class that will stand up in a situation of adversity and drive the troops on to victory.

Stand up Officer Faletau, Officer Murray, Officer Farrell, Officer Sexton, Officer Williams, Officer George, Officer Watson, Officer Sinckler and Captain Warburton.

Last week some know-nothings said there was a huge gulf in class between the teams.

That's why they're know-nothings.

As with last week, we played the sparkling attacking rugby, we showed the inventiveness and flair. We played the game as it is meant to be played, not them.

It was a performance that is as proud and defiant a Wellington monument as anything that stands just off Chesterfield Avenue in Dublin's Phoenix Park.

That performance was for Sir Ian McGeechan, a true Lions legend and one of nature's gentlemen. Get well soon, Sir Ian.

Those who anything about history know that the British Lions have a 100% record in test series in New Zealand in which the latter two digits are 1 and 7. The weight of history is with us.

The prospect of Eden Park next Saturday is now a truly tantalising one.




ONeill

I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.