Wallabies v Lions, 19 July Suncorp

[Super Hooper]

And you are now ranked above Argentina thanks to England "A" who just won 2-0 in Argentina. You can thank us later.

England A v Argentina A. A full Argentina squad would beat you easily

 

[LeCheese]

England A v Argentina A. A full Argentina squad would beat you easily

 

[Adam84]

Hope all the aussies come out of the woodwork tomorrow, sick of being outnumbered with all these red shirts!

Over for this game from Perth and you qld folk have some great pubs for rugby, been to felons, breakfast creek, gillhooleys so far and off to regatta and Caxton street tomorrow. Let’s go wallabies

Went and grabbed a coupe of extra scarves and jerseys yesterday. Will be at Caxton St later as well, it’ll be absolutely packed today so might be a bit of a line for beers

 

[Mr Pilfer]

Went and grabbed a coupe of extra scarves and jerseys yesterday. Will be at Caxton St later as well, it’ll be absolutely packed today so might be a bit of a line for beers

Yep sounds like it but a lot of them doing car park parties with extra bars from the sounds of it so hopefully that helps

 

[Adam84]

Yep sounds like it but a lot of them doing car park parties with extra bars from the sounds of it so hopefully that helps

Yeah Lord Alfred at the top of Caxton Street and the Caxton Hotel will both have their carparks open with bars.

 

[Major Tom]

Hope all the aussies come out of the woodwork tomorrow, sick of being outnumbered with all these red shirts!

Over for this game from Perth and you qld folk have some great pubs for rugby, been to felons, breakfast creek, gillhooleys so far and off to regatta and Caxton street tomorrow. Let’s go wallabies

Jubilee supports rugby. Awesome rooftop too.

 

[LeCheese]

Could be a few of us at Ballpark at Portside before heading in too

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

That's a pretty common "I'm stonger than you" tackle technique in junior league isn't? Don't see it as much in NRL but there are 120+ one on one steals each year

Partly that but also one of the only opportunities for a steal is when Centres face each other in League with the rules around stealing the ball. They practice it as much as the wrestle as a progression from the catch part of the tackle. Even if you don’t get the ball you slow the play which allows the defence to settle. Can be very useful in Rugby. Remember what the Irish did to the Wallabies when they held everyone up.

Hard v the Lions with size and skill but with JAS I expect we’ll see a few mauls over his career in the midfield if he gets hold of guys. Imagine how strong this guys going to be in 2-3 years when he’s 25.

 

[Wilson]

Can be very useful in Rugby. Remember what the Irish did to the Wallabies when they held everyone up.

Choke tackles for mauls are more of a team strategy than a one off tackler tactic, it is much more effective when it's 2-3 players working in conjunction. The Reds run it a fair bit - Les Kiss was the architect of the 2011 Irish strategy and you can see it in the stats that have them as the 'highest tackling' team in world (club) rugby. It's not so central to the wallabies defensive strategies though - this was a big part of why Smith was dropped from the initial Wallabies squad under Schmidt.

 

[PhilClinton]

Normanby Hotel is having a carpark party as well I believe.

Personally for anyone looking for a less busy but still good atmosphere pregame, I would go there.

 

[Ignoto]

Will be at Caxton St later as well, it’ll be absolutely packed today so might be a bit of a line for beers

I always took your more of a Noir kind of guy Adam!

 

[Adam84]

I’m doing South Bank for some beers in the sun and will then head over to Caxton St/Suncorp.

I always took your more of a Noir kind of guy Adam!

18 years in army left me with a frugal/take what you can get attitude

 

[Adam84]

It’s early days, but ominously I’ve seen about 20:1 Lions to Wallabies jerseys out and about.

edit, make that about 100:1

 

[Sword of Justice]

It’s early days, but ominously I’ve seen about 20:1 Lions to Wallabies jerseys out and about.

edit, make that about 100:1

They only packed the one set of clothes from what I can tell walking around the CBD this week.

 

[Major Tom]

Story bridge always does a good job.
Or breakie creek.

 

[drewprint]

They only packed the one set of clothes from what I can tell walking around the CBD this week.

Yeah we don’t let a jersey define our whole personality and walk around in it for 4 weeks straight. Ratio will shift much more favourably come this evening!

 

[Uh huh]

Driving around Brisbane today it seems like there are thousands of Lions fans but I can't shake the feeling I'm just seeing the same bloke over and over again. Either that or every Lions fan is bald, overweight, and closely resembles a polythene bag filled with undercooked pork.

 

[Uh huh]

They only packed the one set of clothes from what I can tell walking around the CBD this week.

It's a strange trait that I associate almost exclusively with the English. When I travel for a sporting event, I don the supporters' garb to go to the game. The English seem to arrive at the airport, put on their jersey and continue to wear it every minute of every day for the duration of the trip.

..... if true, it would at least explain the smell.

 

[dru]

It’s early days, but ominously I’ve seen about 20:1 Lions to Wallabies jerseys out and about.

edit, make that about 100:1

Add in a few black jerseys as well.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

And of course a Souths one.