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harry 22

one of these LHs should really be encouraged to play for Ulster. or just take it upon themselves to go

its not like healy/McGrath are mid 30s

harry 22

Leinster confirm Ringrose is out 4-5 months. http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/ringrose-ruled-out-for-4-5-months/ baffling that they delayed his op for a worthless tour of japan. I more surprised they risked him being out of the AIs instead. Probably means Payne to 13 for the AIs with Aki at 12. Fixed. A...

harry 22

Bullettyme wrote:It was shocking AWJ was allowed to continue. He was out cold.

nah, he wasnt

a blow to the head/face can catch anyone for a minute or two. doesnt mean you're concussed

harry 22

he did better than i expected at scrumtime Mcgrath best and furlong are a better drilled scrummaging unit than the lions. i thought furlong would come under a lot of pressure. he did in the aviva in Nov with retallick and whitelock back in the row he's a relative novice for a TH, if he stays injury ...

harry 22

apart from his great finish in the 2nd test i think Faletau pretty much went to Zinzan's prediction

had some good moments but can go missing for long periods

harry 22

Razor wrote:Do we fire Hansen?

Do we fire Read?

Do we hire Gatland?

Do we invest all our hard earned cash overseas?

Do we promote the entire Baby Blacks to the Big boys Blacks?

Do we just...well... go white bait fishing and grow a gut

get over yourself. you're allowed lose a game or two

harry 22

had he Wallace's durability he'd be one of the greats worldwide

unfortunately I can only recall a handful of big performances from him since 2013. he's missed so much time

harry 22

Rúaidhrí O'Connor‏ @RuaidhriOC 1m1 minute ago More Sean O'Brien citing dismissed, he's free to play #LionsNZ2017 Surprised by this. World Rugby are super inconsistent with their approach to this sort of stuff. Good news for the Lions though. in real time there is nothing in it though which i'm sure...

harry 22

Rúaidhrí O'Connor‏ @RuaidhriOC 1m1 minute ago More Sean O'Brien citing dismissed, he's free to play #LionsNZ2017 Surprised by this. World Rugby are super inconsistent with their approach to this sort of stuff. Good news for the Lions though. in real time there is nothing in it though which i'm sure...

harry 22

Rúaidhrí O'Connor‏ @RuaidhriOC 1m1 minute ago
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Sean O'Brien citing dismissed, he's free to play #LionsNZ2017

harry 22

yeeeooowwww

harry 22

nardol wrote:2 weeks

fake news

harry 22

henry wrote:
Diego wrote:
@rugbyinsideline 2min ago

EXCLUSIVE: Planet Rugby posters are easily duped says World Rugby insider.

More to follow...

i knew it was a joke, but still checked twitter....

harry 22

hopefully the panel focus on the real time footage

the "swinging arm" did not happen. probably a yellow for making contact with the face

harry 22

Naholo was playacting

He quite clearly wasn't sparked out immediately from the force (or lack there of). Hence passing the HIA

harry 22

barely a yellow

because he got injured. no intent in that

harry 22

https://youtu.be/D_EqU1qxf_Q

forget the Gifs

harry 22

he'll be gutted if he cops a ban for that. particularly after the last "biggest game of his career" he missed

these citing panels though always seem to look at the end result. naholo is concussed and pape flopped like a salmon

harry 22

when sam cane knocked out henshaw i thought the yellow was fair as there wasnt clear intent. looking at that, because naholo has gotten hurt you can argue a yellow but there is f8ck all intent in that, no swinging arm etc

harry 22

Can someone find the high quality gif? The one currently circulating in this thread looks like stop motion. With the better quality gif you can see Naholo's head snap back as SOB's forearm cracks him . this does not happen. he clips him with the inside of his arm which isnt swinging just click on t...

harry 22

take away the concussion and there doesnt seem to be much as regards an aggressive motion of the inside arm

harry 22

Ghost-Of-Nepia wrote:Bad week for Sean. Didn't have any luck on Tinder trying to convince my friend to visit their hotel and now he gets cited.

so much for confidentiality

harry 22

surely thats an attempt to strip the ball. hardly a "swinging" arm

harry 22

Can we poach the lions conditioning coaches?

they seem to have kept our most injury prone players fit and firing through a very tough schedule. i've never seen SOB, hendo and sexton look so durable

i hope i havent hexed it

harry 22

i guess its the coaches preference. They obviously dont trust best at lineout which is fair enough considering some big misses while playing for those coaches in red. If schmidt was in charge Best would be playing the first 50 everytime against the kiwis as one of his strongest players around the br...

harry 22

id stick best on the bench. dont think Owens brings much to the party. would consider Henderson on the bench over Stander the win glosses over what was a very sloppy first 50/60mins but hard to make changes after a win like that edit. AWJ was a lot better today, but still not sure Lawes wouldnt be ...

harry 22

i thought he was excellent when we actually had possession. the 1st hour was as stop start a game as i've seen in a while

no doubt hes a better 10 than farrell, who looks much more confident as a 2nd receiver. eddie jones is no fool

harry 22

id stick best on the bench. dont think Owens brings much to the party. would consider Henderson on the bench over Stander the win glosses over what was a very sloppy first 50/60mins but hard to make changes after a win like that edit. AWJ was a lot better today, but still not sure Lawes wouldnt be b...

harry 22

we're going to win the world cup aren't we!?

harry 22

yeh, he played well

so did Lawes when he came on, and we'll never know with henderson.

you'd expect AWJ to never be anything less that good if he's getting selected ahead of those lads

harry 22

AWJ is the only call the wrangles the rest of the marginal calls you can argue back and forth but there's reason behind them. AWJ has not earned the shirt this tour so that's disappointing. He's not the Jonno/POC figure that warrants picking in a do or die situation, despite what Gatland wants to be...

harry 22

fairly misleading

i listened to the piece, and although he certainly disagreed with Gatland, he wasnt "hammering" into him. if anything he didnt seem to have anything against gatland at all

edit: it comes off a lot worse in print

harry 22

Funny guy, shit coach. Borthwick seems to have a good influence on line out but i'm starting to think he's giving ball carrying lessons on the sly... Rowntree came out of the last Lions tour and the pre-Lancaster England era with a lot of credit , by all accounts a very popular and forward-thinking...

harry 22

thirsty now. I'm buying 20 bottles of beer on my way home

harry 22

wtf is wrong with legislation to curb the misuse of alcohol? the only criticism I have is that it should have gone further and fined the drinks industry €1m every time someone has their stomach pumped in a publicly funded hospital getting mouldy drunk should be socially unacceptable, in the same wa...

harry 22

it really vexes me when people say we need to do something about our drinking culture

we should be doing more to promote it. it's our best feature

harry 22

id be tempted to start all 3 of itoje lawes and henderson. if ever there were lads playing like the proverbial "test match animal"

it'll be one way to go after the contact zone anyway, and losing nothing in the lineout

would also be tempted to play best for 50 as well to attack the breakdown

harry 22

Best either starts or not in the squad at all I think both Warburton and Best will start this Saturday. Need to slow the AB's down as much as possible, which Best will thrive off. It'll let Warburton carry a bit as well as do some slowing down too. Plus with no POM, which seems likely, Best will be...

harry 22

not only has Gatland devalued the shirt by bringing the tackle bag holders but he's completely disrespected the midweek side by flogging them for 80mins in back to back test weeks and hamstringing their chances of winning with no support off the bench even with those lads performing like test player...

harry 22

always disappointing to see top talents going to the Top 14

what a terrible league of ogres running slowly into each other

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