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British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand (2017)

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George Smith (75)
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Highlander35 said:
Complaining about BILs offsides opens the gates to complaining about the Blues at the breakdown, and there's a lot more ammo there.

Gardner demonstrating how awful he is too. No balls.

Team is scratchy as fuck though.

Henshaw going for the Irish Choke tackle at every opportunity, Payne running the wrong lines, gaps in the defence everywhere, and as the final nail in the coffin, the sheer disorganisation from that kick (admittedly, every pro kicker should have kicked that or he doesn't deserve to be on the pitch, but regardless).

More organisation than most Barbarians teams, but that seems to be about the best you can say ATM.

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Pfft. Both teams are obviously afflicted by some gravity device, given the speed with which they're all going off their feet! The ref is allowing a free for all really.
 
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Bob Davidson (42)
You know what? I'm sick of fucking mauls already. The attacking team gets to do whatever the they want these days. As soon as they stop they just change their angle. If one of their players falls over it's always "brought down illegally".

In the middle of the ground it is literally only used for milking penalties. That is all it's good for.

#scrapmauls
 
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Bob Davidson (42)
What a try!!

Can the Blues go without brain farting the last 5 minutes. History says no but we'll see.
 
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Bob Davidson (42)
Blues 22 - 16 Lions 78th minute

Blues scored a breakout try 2 minutes ago.

Tough penalty call against the Lions on the Blues 5m line. Technically correct but it usually isn't enforced.
 
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Bob Davidson (42)
And the ref fucks up. Supporting players taken out away from the ruck and the Lions kick it to the 5m line, 10 seconds to go.

But the Lions fuck the lineout up. Blues win it 22-16.
 
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Mark Ella (57)
Surely even those who have defended him for years have to admit that Gatland is the most one dimensional boring coach that ever graced a Tier 1 country. What a shit awful use of the resources at hand, even Jake White made better use of what he had at hand.

The fact is the Lions are just so utterly predictable.

Tonight showed them absolutely struggle to get any ascendency in any aspect of the play against the worst of NZs Super sides (which are admittedly far above any of Australia's.

I just cannot see how a Gatland coached side can compete with the Crusaders complete game let alone with an All Black side even if they play shit.
 
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George Smith (75)
Staff member
Aus Super Rugby coaches to Gatland.........
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Jim Lenehan (48)
Only watched the first half and caught the end of the second, but SBW's try must have to be the single most Blues thing I've ever seen. Earned an eminently kickable penalty? Good. Missed relatively simple kick? Bad. Said missed relatively simple kick bounces off the uprights and results in a 1-in-a-million sequence of events that ends with the ball touched down by a man with Orangutan arms surgically grafted on in replace of his regular ones? [Insert all of Dismals relevant Blues jailbreak rugby gifs].

West's try was pretty ace too.
 
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