Queensland Reds v British & Irish Lions - Wednesday, 2 July 8:00pm

[Wilson]

Doesn't matter, the corner posts are no longer considered dead, the ball has to touch the turf dead (or on the dead ball line) for it to be dead. It's effectively the same as bouncing it off the goal posts.

 

[Dan54]

Yep by quite a bit. But that's the change they made a few years back when corner posts etc weren't out of play.

 

[Spamnoodle]

Okay, good to know, a law change that had avoided my attention until now.
It was such a rare occurrence, would have been great to have been a try, would have been on highlight reels for decades to come.

 

[Dan54]

Shame in a way they haven't got a song, but I have been to a lot of Lions tests since the 1970s, and they never had one.

 

[JRugby2]

But if the corner post wasn't there it would have been dead before he'd reached it?

Probably?

 

[Braveheart81]

(First image - maybe touching the ball?

I think his hands go over the ball without touching it. When he actually does touch it, the ball is already on the dead ball line.

There was the potential to score. He certainly got there before the ball went dead.

 

[Derpus]

Yeah he got caught out by the bounce back and it went into his chest.

I think you can technically ground it with your chest but we was well out by then.

 

[Tomthumb]

SA teams all shipped 50+ last tour too. At the end of the day Wallabies and Lions can only select 23 players.

Very true, but it was disappointing considering the team the Reds put out there

 

[Braveheart81]

Yes, you can but as you said, the ball was out by that point.

 

[Tazzmania]

Good Crowd Numbers so far for the tour:

Perth 46,656
Brisbane: 46,435

 

[Brumby Runner]

Conan is getting lots of plaudits but I thought he had a rather quiet game. Itoje and Morgan were my picks from the Lions forwards.

Conan is a huge human isn't he. But last night, Brial had it all over him in the battle of the 8s.

 

[Dan54]

Was just talking to mate in Brisbane who was at game, he said same as you Spam, has been a little disappointed with atmosphere, said it felt a little flat. Wasn't really bad or anything, and as he said perhaps after we came over to a couple in 2017 when Lions were in NZ he was expecting similar. He actually Welsh so why we came to a couple in 17. But we still laugh as we we walked down to train station in central Auckland, the chanting form Station was so loud etc we swear the lights were pulsating ro it. There was Lions, Lions .Lions, then All Black, All Blacks etc just ringing out, then on trains to Eden Park, set the whole atmosphere, and never really stopped. Just something I really enjoy, almost organic cheering, no man on microphone geeing anyone up. Also he corrected me and said Lions supporters were singing 'Sloop John B'. And we had spent the days of games with a mixture of supporters etc, so was brilliant.

 

[Dan54]

Very true, but it was disappointing considering the team the Reds put out there

Do you think it's also got something to do with Lions also bring on bench full of test players, and super teams don't have that luxury (especially with test players out)? I didin't think the Reds looked to bad, until the Lions looked like they wore them out.

 

[Slim 293]

I haven't got around to watching the match replay yet, but I did click on the the SMH/Age match report, and well...

Really looking forward to it!

 

[Braveheart81]

Can anyone tell me what the spoonerism of the Queensland's captain's name is?

 

[molman]

Not despondent or overly analytical, just reflective. The 2013 AU tour had its blowouts, but the Qld game was great and in the 2017 NZ tour the domestic teams were very competitve, even grabbing a couple of wins. I'm not sure I see the Brumbies nabbing a win like last time, especially minus their Wallabies. But then last tour here I think we were 3rd in the World at the time with all the home nations below us, this time we're 8th and they're all above us bar one and there sure aren't many players from that team running around.

 

[Nuggetyflyhalf]

He does get away with reaching over the breakdown a lot and holding on just long enough to kill momentum while short of getting pinged. But that's kind of why he's good.

Well what do they say about McCaw? Never entered through the gate in his career, side entry specialist. One of the greats.

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

Iit was a tight game for 40 minutes same as the week before. I’d have hoped qld would let in 15 less but hardly a disaster.
Lions destroyed almost all teams in mead up to SA tests. Warstahs should go ok. Brumbies missing a lot of wallabies tho

 

[notdeadyet]

at unsw back in the early 70s they had a yearly flour fight between medicine and engineering on the library lawn. went on for hours over lunch with firehoses being introduced out of the chancellery and the maths building after an hour or so
i barracked for medicine and that is the only time i ever barracked for medicine which shows how much i love engineers|
live in hughes, canberra a suburb which originally housed many of the anu's academia but now engineers friggin' everywhere
all the best, mark

 

[Mr Pilfer]

I do think a lot of the crowd from the first 2 games would have been made of up lions supporters who live in Aus. 6 weeks is a long time for people to be away on tour, I am sure a heap of them will be coming out in 2 weeks and staying for the 3 tests and that is when the atmosphere will go up a level.