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Tony Shaw (54)
I wish you could call one of our blokes a robotic kicking machine! ;-) Hopefully Lilo will keep smashing goals for us!..... to call 1/2p a robotic kicking machine is ludicrous......
I wish you could call one of our blokes a robotic kicking machine! ;-) Hopefully Lilo will keep smashing goals for us!..... to call 1/2p a robotic kicking machine is ludicrous......
This will be game on from the moment Horwill tosses the coin and Alun Wyn Jones calls "heads".
I think you make a really good point Bardon. When you look back at what a hash Woodward made of his stint as coach and Henry admits that it became a complete cock-up in 2001. I don't mind Gatland particularly and you can always see the logic to his selections, if not agree with them. But you can also see the struggle he is having finding the right tactics, combinations, form players etc. It's not really surprising to see him go back to what he knows and that will always bring in the question of bias. Whatever the outcome on Saturday, I think there is a need to have a review of how the coach is appointed and also, when.I think a lot of people in Ireland would have been delighted if Kidney had got the Lions job. But that would simply have been to get him away from the Ireland team he was holding back 1 year earlier.
Don't believe the Lions would have been better under any of the Lions nations coaches that were available. My personal gripe is with how narrow the field for Lions coach is. I'd much prefer to see an outside team of coaches brought in. I've no interest in seeing the Irish coach, coach the Lions.
On a personal note I don't like Gatland. But that won't stop me hoping that he becomes a Lions legend on Saturday. Not happy about BOD being dropped. Think a few Welsh players are lucky to be starting. But Gatland has faith in them and hopefully they'll repay that faith with top performances. Either way I'll be shouting my head off for the Lions on Saturday as I've done for every game so far.
Perhaps you've forgotten that every squad member was given a game before the first testI actually said Halfpenny was shackled by the tactics, if he was allowed to counter attack he'd be a damn good 15
Then why not say so
but he just kicks the ball away. If kicking goals makes you the player of the series then you have some low expectations of our players. FWIW AWJ is probably my MOTS for the Lions right now.
If you thought Warburton was a good selection until the 2nd test you missed all of this season where his performances (England aside) verged from pathetic to disinterested. He was given far too much leeway to make the test squad because of his previous relationship with Gatland.
Perhaps then its just as well you don't pick the sides as he came good when it mattered
Plus it looked like POC and BOD did most of the talking to the playing group and referee so we didn't get to see his famed ref whispering in action
There are plently of Welsh players worth their place on the team (6 by my count),
Then who would be the 4 you would drop, Davies obviously for your beloved BOD, then I would say 50/50
I just don't think selecting two similar players both out of form is the way to go. Lets face it there have been Welsh players given a chance to get their form whilst others haven't been given a fair crack.
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rug...1453007?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Great to see an article like this in the Irish Times, well done Gatland.
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rug...1453007?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Great to see an article like this in the Irish Times, well done Gatland.
Driving home today wondering how the test match will pan out and then on the side of the road I saw.... A dead wallaby. Den den derrrrn. Bad omen?
Driving home today wondering how the test match will pan out and then on the side of the road I saw.... A dead wallaby. Den den derrrrn. Bad omen?
I tried but those bloody Brits are quicker than you thinkI'd have been much more worried if you saw a dead lion on the side of the road.
Really??? That article was a load of tripe that went for three pages.
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Sorry but three pages of drivel from the Irish times doesn't add up to three quarters of all rugby supporters are behind the wallabies. Glad to see the Irish times is as out of touch with reality as ever.http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rug...1453007?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Great to see an article like this in the Irish Times, well done Gatland.
If by some miracle your Lions win tomorrow I will be looking forward to all the modesty and self effacement evident in this post that will be emanating from the principality. Fortunately a Welsh victory is probably as likely as on the last seven occasions you have played Australia. Gatland has been a truly great Lions coach, any chance he can do the next tour to New Zealand?Sorry but three pages of drivel from the Irish times doesn't add up to three quarters of all rugby supporters are behind the wallabies. Glad to see the Irish times is as out of touch with reality as ever.
BTW I thought you promised to stop posting anymore crap about this tour that I and everyone out here is enjoying until after it was over, or was I dreaming?
I hope all of the non-welsh in the 23 play out of their skins tomorrow. I've really enjoyed the opportunity to take off the nationalist blinkers that I occasoinally wear and appreciate the play of the likes of Murray, Sexton, Bowe SoB, PoC Heaslip and indeed BoD. I've been impressed with Gray. think he is a future star and hope he gets a run. Hell I've even enjoyed watching orcs like both youngs Corbs and Parling and I am dying to tuilagi given a chance to run at the Australian midfield. I'm quite happy to think that these players can come together occasionally as a squad and play reall competitive rugby rather than the mickey mouse BaaBaas stuff. The friendships they make here go way beyond the petty snipes of the Irish uber alles cheer squad.
The lions is the only opportunity I have to SUPPORT players from outside of wales and to enjoy the best of what rugby tours are about. It is a great shame that you cannot appreciate these games for what they are: a great spectacle played in the best spirit of fiercely competitive rugby by players at the top of their game. If Ireland is really as insular and xenophobic as your comments and the press suggest, then I am sorry it is the poorer for it!
The line out is about so , so much more than the hooker hitting his man. The timing of some of the lifting has been fecking terrible and some of the lifting, looking at you unfit Adam Jones, has been pitiful. Everyone is quick enough to blame the hooker and Best has a serious case of the yips but, is it possible to get a line out up to scratch in the time the Lions have? I really do not believe it is and with players getting bigger the challenge becomes ever greater. Is it possible for a team to compete with a line out that is being constantly challenged as the Lions have been? NO. The line out is the only means of getting the forwards out of the way because the scrum is essentially a lottery; if you have to throw to 2 or shorten the LO you lose that advantage. The Gatland PR machine has done a good job of dropping BOD and thereby deflecting attention from the absence of a LO option in the back row.