British and Irish Lions Tour 2013

[Walter Cronc]

Warburton out of Saturdays test!!

Time for the Lions mgt to get their heads out of their arses and go for it!!

The back row should be Tupuric, O'Brien and Heaslip. Let them worry about us and not the other way around.

[screenexile]

I thought Saturday was Warburton's best game for the Lions so far so he will be a loss. O'Brien and Tipuric need to be brought in right away!

[Walter Cronc]

He did play well on Saturday SE, no doubt but I'd just love to see them really go for it!!

I'd love to see Roberts back. I'm not the biggest fan of Tuilagi but I'd even start him ahead of Davies just to get over the gainline and give go forward ball.

[Count 10]

Last chance saloon...need to start with all guns blazing...O'Brien has to start.

[Bord na Mona man]

One crazy stat is that after Sexton, Sean O'Brien made the 2nd highest number of metres carrying the ball and he was only on for 16 minutes. That is shocking for the rest of them, including but not limited to BOD

How much of those were gained from catching restarts and running?
I didn't see any of the match btw, but the stats for someone like O'Brien can be misleading as he very often catches restarts and gets to run the first 10 metres for free.

[Walter Cronc]

One crazy stat is that after Sexton, Sean O'Brien made the 2nd highest number of metres carrying the ball and he was only on for 16 minutes. That is shocking for the rest of them, including but not limited to BOD

How much of those were gained from catching restarts and running?
I didn't see any of the match btw, but the stats for someone like O'Brien can be misleading as he very often catches restarts and gets to run the first 10 metres for free.

O'Brien didn't receive any restarts as far as I'm away. Murray Kinsella on twitter has a couple of interesting points on how the Lions defended restarts. Basically AW Jones was on his own with the rest of the pack further withdrawn for restarts. This resulted in the Aussies securing possession on a couple of occasions!!

[theticklemister]

I thought Saturday was Warburton's best game for the Lions so far so he will be a loss. O'Brien and Tipuric need to be brought in right away!

Warburton out of Saturdays test!!

Time for the Lions mgt to get their heads out of their arses and go for it!!

The back row should be Tupuric, O'Brien and Heaslip. Let them worry about us and not the other way around.

Who would of thought it?................................ 2 South Derry men chatting about this!

[LeoMc]

I thought Saturday was Warburton's best game for the Lions so far so he will be a loss. O'Brien and Tipuric need to be brought in right away!

Warburton out of Saturdays test!!

Time for the Lions mgt to get their heads out of their arses and go for it!!

The back row should be Tupuric, O'Brien and Heaslip. Let them worry about us and not the other way around.

Who would of thought it?................................ 2 South Derry men chatting about this!

Rainey has a lot to answer for.

[Walter Cronc]

I thought Saturday was Warburton's best game for the Lions so far so he will be a loss. O'Brien and Tipuric need to be brought in right away!

Warburton out of Saturdays test!!

Time for the Lions mgt to get their heads out of their arses and go for it!!

The back row should be Tupuric, O'Brien and Heaslip. Let them worry about us and not the other way around.

Who would of thought it?................................ 2 South Derry men chatting about this!

Dont lie Tickle I used to enjoy nailing you when you lined out for City of LondonDerry

[Declan]

Training must be going well as O'Driscoll and O'Brien are slagging each other off on twitter ( in a good humoured way)

[theticklemister]

I thought Saturday was Warburton's best game for the Lions so far so he will be a loss. O'Brien and Tipuric need to be brought in right away!

Warburton out of Saturdays test!!

Time for the Lions mgt to get their heads out of their arses and go for it!!

The back row should be Tupuric, O'Brien and Heaslip. Let them worry about us and not the other way around.

Who would of thought it?................................ 2 South Derry men chatting about this!

Dont lie Tickle I used to enjoy nailing you when you lined out for City of LondonDerry

Spent three years at scrum-half playing for st.columbs college and then burnsy took me aside and said ' ticklemister cut this shit out, we need ye fit for the mclaron season ahead' . Turned out to be the fittest and best uninjured sub on the bench

[nrico2006]

I thought Saturday was Warburton's best game for the Lions so far so he will be a loss. O'Brien and Tipuric need to be brought in right away!

Warburton out of Saturdays test!!

Time for the Lions mgt to get their heads out of their arses and go for it!!

The back row should be Tupuric, O'Brien and Heaslip. Let them worry about us and not the other way around.

Who would of thought it?................................ 2 South Derry men chatting about this!

Dont lie Tickle I used to enjoy nailing you when you lined out for City of LondonDerry

Spent three years at scrum-half playing for st.columbs college and then burnsy took me aside and said ' ticklemister cut this shit out, we need ye fit for the mclaron season ahead' . Turned out to be the fittest and best uninjured sub on the bench

When were you at St Columbs?

[yellowcard]

I enjoy watching rugby but the whole Lions concept is based on an over hyped commercial brand playing representitive matches that I'm not too bothered about the result in. Its a great honour for the players to be selected for the team but why put so much emphasis on 4 nations combined playing a test series against Southern Hemisphere sides when these individual nations themselves frequently tour against the same teams. Sky Sports do a great job in 'selling the product' but I would far rather see an Irish province win a HC or the Irish side win a 6 nations than some representitive team win a test series against an Australian team that Ireland beat on their own in the last WC.

[gallsman]

I enjoy watching rugby but the whole Lions concept is based on an over hyped commercial brand playing representitive matches that I'm not too bothered about the result in. Its a great honour for the players to be selected for the team but why put so much emphasis on 4 nations combined playing a test series against Southern Hemisphere sides when these individual nations themselves frequently tour against the same teams. Sky Sports do a great job in 'selling the product' but I would far rather see an Irish province win a HC or the Irish side win a 6 nations than some representitive team win a test series against an Australian team that Ireland beat on their own in the last WC.

Nail on head.

I enjoy watching it and following it but let's be honest, very few of us actually care whether the Lions win or lose. It's like the Ryder Cup - nobody supports Europe. You hope they do well and enjoy following the Irish contingent. Sky would have you believe it's the greatest show on earth - they need something to keep people interest until their next Transfer Deadline Day extravaganza. What will they do without 'Arry in the Premier League?

[lynchbhoy]

I enjoy watching rugby but the whole Lions concept is based on an over hyped commercial brand playing representitive matches that I'm not too bothered about the result in. Its a great honour for the players to be selected for the team but why put so much emphasis on 4 nations combined playing a test series against Southern Hemisphere sides when these individual nations themselves frequently tour against the same teams. Sky Sports do a great job in 'selling the product' but I would far rather see an Irish province win a HC or the Irish side win a 6 nations than some representitive team win a test series against an Australian team that Ireland beat on their own in the last WC.

I feel much the same way about Irish provinces....ie they are not clubs, but conglomerations and amalgamations !
it has made Irish rugby teams more competitive against the french and english clubs, but if they copied that trick - the sport would turn into complete sihte (and some of the rules currently are not helping this anyhow - eg scrums).

A former club player in leinster said to me last year -where were these fans and the hype 15 years ago for the inter-provincial games!
still, thats the way it is now, so these amaglamations have to be tolerated.