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Lions Tour 2013

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Jim Lenehan (48)
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Jamie indicates what he hopes to do to James horwill
 
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Jim Lenehan (48)
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Can see why bod never thought of career as international swimmer!

Wonder if this was preparation for possible downpour in Melbourne? Buggers cleverly negated gatland s plan by closing roof.
 
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John Solomon (38)
IRB launching an appeal against the Horwill decision, don't understand it myself as surely it was their decision. There will be the mother of all whines from all side now depending on what happens, if Aus wins on saturday and Horwill is banned afterwards will they have to replay the game? Very amusing!!!
 
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Alfred Walker (16)
JSRF10 said:
Not too sure about this, the IRB are appealing their own decision. The moaning of the press and Lions management has got to the IRB. There are a lot more incidents that they should be reviewing before this one, one including our fearless leader who could have killed Vincent Clerc by dumping him on this neck and other on the last tour by Schalk Burger.

The IRB are going down a slippery path if they let the citing commissioners decision get over turned
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Warburton did get banned though didn't he ?

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Jim Lenehan (48)
the plastic paddy said:
IRB launching an appeal against the Horwill decision, don't understand it myself as surely it was their decision. There will be the mother of all whines from all side now depending on what happens, if Aus wins on saturday and Horwill is banned afterwards will they have to replay the game? Very amusing!!!
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Would be good to have a fourth game.
 
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John Solomon (38)
Terrible management of this situation. Does this appeal have anything to do with the prince of darkness Alisdair Campbell being in Australia?
 
Dai bando

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Charlie Fox (21)
the plastic paddy said:
IRB launching an appeal against the Horwill decision, don't understand it myself as surely it was their decision. There will be the mother of all whines from all side now depending on what happens, if Aus wins on saturday and Horwill is banned afterwards will they have to replay the game? Very amusing!!!
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Don't worry paddy, people cant whine anymore than they are now,
 
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Allen Oxlade (6)
Dai bando said:
I have no problem with youngs coming on for Phillips our real weakness will be the loose head side and I don't just mean Venapola, When Parling came on for AWJ the scrum went to s*it wasn't the front row, was the grunt coming frome the second, or should I say the lack of it.Parling a huge mistake I think, mark this one down to the Aussies , I would knocK a few balls on if I was the Aussies and have as many scrums it takes to Frig the lion forwards up.
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Mate when Parling came on after 70 minutes he scrummed down 3 times, all on the tighthead side - I can only assume that this was a desperation move because P'OC was playing with a broken right arm. Obviously a lock needs both arms to scrummage properly, but given that it was the right arm that was broken, it would make sense for him to scrummage at loosehead lock so that he could at least bind onto his prop with his left arm.

On the first of those scrums Parling slipped, and on the third, he and O'Connell were miles apart, with P'OC's arse pointing diagonally away from the scrum, in a dreadful position. Parling did not look particularly good in those scrums, but I don't think you can place too much blame on him either - it is very difficult to scrummage at tighthead lock when your partner in the second row can't bind onto you properly, and your prop is getting abused. Vunipola and Cole looked awful.

The selections of Lydiate, Youngs, and Bowe are all fine by me (although I'd prefer O'Brien), and Parling is at least understandable because of his lineout prowess (although I think Evans might actually be the better option - he was phenomenal in the 6N and he and AWJ would form a hard partnership), but Vunipola is a massive gamble. Grant and Court aren't great options, but you have to wonder about Vunipola's scrummaging. I suppose the thinking is that under the roof in Melbourne there won't be as many scrums, and that we can get the ball in and out quickly of the scrums that do occur, and that Vunipola offers so much more around the park than Grant/Court.

What I'm trying to say is: I'm more worried that Vunipola could lose us the Test match than I am excited that he could win it for us.
 
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John Solomon (38)
Inside Shoulder said:
And it's so well researched:
"But still, that would not stop the ARU disciplinary panel from clearing Horwil"


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The thing is there seems to be a wilful disinformation campaign from the non Murdoch Press in the UK which makes me wonder whether this is part of the BT campaign within English and European rugby.
 
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John Hipwell (52)
Found this on another forum, meant to be a paddy power add.

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