great to see Christian Lealiifano making a comeback for the Brumbies in a recent friendly.Less than a year after being diagnosed with leukaemia and seven months after having had a bone marrow transplant he came on as sub against the Asia-Pacific Dragons and kicked 6 conversions.
Nice one namastebuzz. Great to hear.
So er, what has happened to Jonathan Joseph? Have I missed something, he appears not to be in any Lions team right now...o er, what has happened to Jonathan Joseph? Have I missed something, he appears not to be in any Lions team right now...
He seems to have fallen foul of Gatland's law: let's pick a slightly over the hill or not quite fit Welshmen over a better, younger player in good form.
Explains Jones, Davies, Halfpenny and Warburton....
As good as he is, he has hardly stood out on the tour so far
Well to be fair he hasn't had much chance to do so has he...
Katherine Jenkins,Bryn Terfel and the ex mrs henson, watch and learn from four Samoan blokes
So it's looks like I got my welshies mixed up lol my apologies to all*
AA, those lads could hold a tune! Cracking singing.
I'd rather have seen a safe pair of hands in 1/2p for the first test. Liam is weak under the high ball and gives too many penalties.
Looking forward to the first test but reality is kicking in. Hope they can limit it to 15 points deficit.
āIām not sure looking at their bench that it is as strong as it has been in the past,ā Gatland said,
Well that should add a bit of heat to the last 20 mins.
You all need to get with the Facebook view. Apparently the fact that it's raining means the Lions will win... š as a Scotsman; I pity the amount of rain they get.
Fiji v Scotland getting a bit loose. Some of the Fijian lads look huge. Too many missed tackles and immediate points back on the board. Not over yet though!
Entertaining, that. Felt we got run over way too many times, and were very poor on the restart. Good on Fiji though.
Liam is weak under the high ball
I'm not sure I agree that he's weak here but I dont forsee many high balls from the all blacks anyway, plenty of cross kiks though
Oh no Fiji beat scotland, put TJ on suicide watch!!
4th best team in the world š
4th best team in the world
That's cruel, they may have won if all their best players weren't on tour with the Lions š
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Oh no Fiji beat scotland, put TJ on suicide watch!!
We're good at dealing with false dawns. We've seen a few.
Yeah but most Scots are slightly less hyperbolic than TJ.
Mrs THM pun this morning
"Who's parity?"
I leave the rest to your imagination. Lions tea shirt from Ellis Park on (complete with GarethEdwards signature!
Let's hope it's a great match
Anything could happen here, could it not?
But first, some country dancing
Great opening
What a game so far!
God, they are good
Cane is killing us at the breakdown. Need more from SOB and POM. JD2 looks awful in defence too!
ABs cheating best as ever. Lions forwards look confused if they get the ball - still not sure what Kruis is for.
That's more ****ing like it!!
Liam!!!!!
Fantastic.
Sanjay! What a break!
Wow!!!!!!!!!
Not too shabby a try that !
Sorry Gareth, do we have a new best try ever ????
Damn needed kick
Nutty Liam - awesome
Game on
And exhale.......
Great half of rugby. NZ so so good Lions clinging on
Even my feet are sweating... AA has it though, there's a clear gap in skills and speed of thought.
I'm assuming that my girlfriend is now awake after my try celebration šÆ
I'd like to see Itoje on.
Every time the AB have the ball my HR goes up 15bpm
We are clearly second best but doing a bloody good job at hanging in here.
What fun.....
At least Pyper is not the ref next week....
Is Stevue Wonder the video ref? How did he miss them working on Murrays hand?
God, they are good
Good but not that good. This game is very much for the taking. Lots of parity around the field
How quick did that 40 mins flash by?! Who'd a thunk it'd be this nerve wracking! Great stuff.
I think we're lucky they started with Smith at 9, if we can still hold with TJ on it'll be brilliant.
Its the ball skills of their forwards thats killing us
Itoje and/or Hovis in the second half for the breakdown?
