Waratahs v British & Irish Lions - Saturday, 5 July @ SFS

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Last 30 mins have been absolutely dire watching. Barely pro standard

Big of dogged aggressive defence against the Lions rather than playing semi opposed for them.

 

[Shiggins]

Have a crack tahs. Ahhhhhh Jesus Christ.

 

[PhilClinton]

If this was a ‘real game’ the Lions would have kicked about 8 penalties off scrum infringements.

 

[Wilson]

Yes I should have mentioned wallabies squad contention for the 35 man squad
They won’t be in the 23

I assumed you meant the full squad and not just the 23, I don't see who they'd be pushing out of it.

 

[Aussie D]

Gamble, amatosero and lambert have played themselves into wallabies contention tonight
Easily their best games of the year for the tahs

You would pick them for the Wallabies based on their performance in one frame? Glad you are not a selector

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Yes, loving the predictable talking down of the game.

Blow out: Tahs are pathetic
Relative competition: Lions are shit, Tahs lucky.

Just gonna love the fact the Tahs occupy a lot of space in people’s minds.

 

[molman]

Well that was surprisingly better than I thought it would be.

Can't see Farrell being happy with that game.

 

[Linerunner2023]

If I was the lions coach I’d be firing shots at that team
They delivered by shit with so many errors

 

[Shiggins]

Well done tahs. Regardless of how poor the tahs and lions were the tahs have done the best so far. It was a bit of a shit game but good fun and some good laughs. This lions team on paper is very very good. The tahs team on paper is not even a competitive super side. Farrel will be livid

 

[Uh huh]

Honestly when I saw this Waratahs squad compared to the Reds team from Wednesday, I thought this was going to be just as big a walkover. Much as I loved the litany of embarrassing errors from the Lions, there were a lot of plucky performances from inexperienced Tahs in there, and mostly parity in the forwards (although the scrum weakened with the subs. Can't imagine the Lions are anywhere near happy with that.

 

[PhilClinton]

Yes, loving the predictable talking down of the game.

Blow out: Tahs are pathetic
Relative competition: Lions are shit, Tahs lucky.

Just gonna love the fact the Tahs occupy a lot of space in people’s minds.

Ghosty you left off the third option

The game was rigged!

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

If I was the lions coach I’d be firing shots at that team
They delivered by shit with so many errors

Farrell won’t be happy but might like the fact they had a side with a 7 make life difficult all night. Don’t want/need blow outs before Tests.

 

[Linerunner2023]

Well credit to the tahs
People were talking about tripple figures ar the start of the week
Tahs have done the best out of the teams so far

tbh lions very slow starters - if the wallabies can get a good bench impact you never know

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Ghosty you left off the third option

The game was rigged!

Let me get the foil from the kitchen.

 

[molman]

Honestly when I saw this Waratahs squad compared to the Reds team from Wednesday, I thought this was going to be just as big a walkover. Much as I loved the litany of embarrassing errors from the Lions, there were a lot of plucky performances from inexperienced Tahs in there, and mostly parity in the forwards (although the scrum weakened with the subs. Can't imagine the Lions are anywhere near happy with that.

A better scrum and a 10 with his head screwed on and that game could have turned out interestingly.

 

[Marbig]

That was actually quite enjoyable.

No doubt will end up being the weakest Lions side that plays but still impressive none the less.

 

[Aussie D]

How the hell is it 10-21 76 min in. The tahs have made some absolute blunders and have no scrum.

The gulf in class of Finn Russell to Fin Smith? Russell would have made the Tahs pay for their mistakes like he did the Force and Reds.

 

[Wilson]

Not too many of the Lions did themselves any favours, but Mitchell has absolutely locked up that backup halfback spot for the first test. He was electric tonight.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Take him out of it and we genuinely have a toss up game.

 

[molman]

That was actually quite enjoyable.

No doubt will end up being the weakest Lions side that plays but still impressive none the less.

Weakest?