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Whatever makes you feel better about yourself Naki, keep fighting the good fight :thumbup: What a shame we don't have an invitational side from Arg, SA, NZ & Aus with the same prep time and schedule coming up here to play our top tier sides and England. I posted a SANZAAR squad a couple of weeks ag...

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Rumours it was a discarded cigarette from an upper floor landing in washing on a balcony lower down. Shocking incident. Doubt it'll be covered by corporate manslaughter, public opinion will be excoriating. unlawful and dangerous act manslaughter if they decide to prosecute an individual- which I do...

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Magic wrote:Good morning. A bit hungover and this sunny day is not helping.

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Good morning. A bit hungover and this sunny day is not helping.

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itoje toby wrabs (capt)

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Embarrassing. Unmanly. And not in the spirit of the game. it was in reaction to the reffing of the scrums last sat!!! Gosh, you've got your conspiracy hat screwed on tight already. Have a lollipop. hahaha. true though. nz public/commentators/players are furious about raynal. this was their way of h...

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MrDominator wrote:Embarrassing.

Unmanly.

And not in the spirit of the game.

it was in reaction to the reffing of the scrums last sat!!!

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He was terrible for the Lions in '13 as well. I think some lads - he and Best being obvious examples - just struggle mentally when they're out of their comfort zone. Spot on. He gets by with bluff. His legs have gone. Every LH prop in the Premiership knows it. And he does little around the park - o...

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At least we know who the dirt trackers are, and they are mostly Welsh. One eyed bollocks Completely true.... There were only three welsh starters tonight for this midweek dirge. Biggar and Webb done great. Warburton, I know you guys will disagree, but did a tremendous amount of work to make up for ...

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Expect this sort of bias in the First Test!!!!! I've been saying it for years. SH refs will favour SH sides against the Brits. Very little consistency actually and every 50/50 went against us.

BUT we were POOR tonight. A very average side played poorly in reality.

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Most of tonight was crap. Webb and Biggar and Warburton positives. The rest can prepare for next Tuesday. Cole?? His legs have GONE. Can't scrummage and survives by bluster. Payne/Seymour/Nowell part of a shockingly bad back line outside Biggar. JJ average. Henshaw showed nothing!! Really disappoint...

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Is it just me but this BIL side look like a side who know, by and large, that theyre not in the Test team which will be Saturdays team v Maoris and 1st test. A few look dejected and/or flat. Disappointing.

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Good game but the Lions will lose this by not holding on to the pill. Really poor basics with special shout outs to Payne and Seymour. Spot on. These two are having shockers. Nowell too is lacking in winger pace. JJ poor in defence but had an easy run-in after Biggar's dummy. Webbs kicking again is...

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Okay, I'll bite: Ah come on now, both Tipuric and SOB are better flankers than Warburton. Either of them should be at openside. So technically Warbs should be fighting for the blindside position. On top of that he isn't really fit. If Stander was fully fit he'd be the shoe-in, but he's clearly knac...

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I see Warbs playing a similar role to POM from an Irish pov. Just a nasty bastard to play against as he gets everywhere slows everything down and just pisses the opposition off generally. I see a back row of SOB Toby and Warbs. Worried a little about our front row in the first Test tho. It'll be re...

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1 - Healy 2 - Hartley 3 - Ryan 4 - Launch 5 - Gray 6 - Hask 7 - Watson 8 - Heaslip 9- Care 10 - Ford 11 - Zebo 12 - Dunbar 13 - Ringrose 14 - Wade 15 - Kearney With some unbiased fixing: 1 Rob Evans 2 Frazer Brown 3 Samson Lee 4 Gray 5 Launchbury 6 Robshaw 7 Watson 8 Denton 9 Marmion 10 Russell 11 ...

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Haven't liked the ST crossword for2/3 years - since the last lot of contributors actually!! Sudoku's are fun - the VERY hard one usually easy too.
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How the hell journeymen like Henderson, Biggar, Payne and Laidlaw got on tour ahead of Launchbury, Ford, Slade and Care is beyond me. Need to stop having a clandestine quota system in Lions selections. You're right about Hendo, Payne and Laidlaw - 3 squad players in the 23 of the Dirt trackers at b...

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How the hell journeymen like Henderson, Biggar, Payne and Laidlaw got on tour ahead of Launchbury, Ford, Slade and Care is beyond me. Need to stop having a clandestine quota system in Lions selections. You're right about Hendo, Payne and Laidlaw - 3 squad players in the 23 of the Dirt trackers at b...

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Am I the only one to say that that was a quite average performance from us - and that we have sooo much more to come?? Other than Murray, our back were ordinary in attack - again!! Second rowers? The Test combo. Back row? Good, especially SOB and Toby - with Tips/Warburton to come. An embarrassment ...

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May is not going. She might be forced out at some stage but she apparently is hanging on. She was f**king useless these last 6 weeks. She can never again be allowed to front a campaign. She'll be gone by Sept. Tory Party conference late Sept/early October. It'll be Boris. He's a buffoon yes, but he...

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Boris at Tory party conference I'm October followed by an election - late Oct. or November Please don't even joke about that. Another election :yawn: Yep, Boris vs Corbyn. Yes. And he'll offer free tuition and lots of fruit from the money tree. Corbs manifesto was pie in the sky - I reckon Boris ca...

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Boris at Tory party conference I'm October followed by an election - late Oct. or November Please don't even joke about that. Another election :yawn: Yep, Boris vs Corbyn. Yes. And he'll offer free tuition and lots of fruit from the money tree. Corbs manifesto was pie in the sky - I reckon Boris ca...

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Boris at Tory party conference I'm October followed by an election - late Oct. or November

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He was spot on about the Lions not drawing the man when passing to create overlaps. Halfpenny nearly ruined the try last Wed after passing too soon - leaving the winger to do too much. We butchered 3/4 overlaps last Saturday v the BLues. It's elementary and something we could do naturally at 11 - wi...

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McGrath George Furlong
Kruis AWJ
Itoje Toby Warbs

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North Teo JJ Williams

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Initial reaction: McGrath 7 - Scrum was solid and put in a decent shift around the park Owens 7 - Decent performance given he has been out for three weeks or so- lineout good for the most part Cole 7 - Again, scrum was good, solid in defence, never expected him to do much more than that tbh Itoje 7...

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As ever the backs are letting us down - really sluggish. Payne/Henshaw/Nowell certain also-rans after that. Haskell looks slow too and has missed first-up tackles. Biggar/Webb are good - but worried about Sexton. Cole looks ok but McGrath seems to be dealing well with the AB 3. Itoje ok. But concent...

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Mako Owens Furlong Itoje Kruis Moriarty Faletau Tipuric Murray Farrell North Henshaw JD2 Watson Halfpenny This selection will piss off a lot of non-Welsh, but I do think this is a strong possibility of what Gatland may choose. Much can change of course. That's 7 Welsh. We have an embarrassment of r...

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Thought he was mediocre. Gave away a penalty early, carried and tackled but not with his usual energy for the most part. As Jeff says, looked like a man playing only his second game in a few months. No doubt enough to strengthen the pro-Launchbury wing of the bored...but he'll get better through th...

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No surprise. But we've seen nought yet. Every Saffer/Aus ref will be biased on this tour. They're not neutral!! We know it - but blatant tonight. AWJ penalised twice in 2 mts for bringing down our own rolling maul that was going forward?? fudge that's a new one. First Test is lost already. Maybe par...

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