Bugger improves the case for Croft in the backrow.
And then you'll owe me a pint!
Double bugger
moment of the tour so far!!
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this ones quite good too!
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and here's one for wrecker 😉
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Looks like the 12 did most of the work there 😛
Got one of matt Stevens turnover?
turnover or roll over? 😀 sorry no.
This ones good though
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6- 3 at half time..FFS!
Wales look like they might well have cracked this losing to japan business this week.
Its on s4c isnt it. You can watch that live on their website. I cannot be botheredd.
Yes it is on s4c although not pretty viewing if your welsh. Japan worth the lead at present.
Yep, Japan very good today, Wales mediocre at best.
Congrats to Japan. Tonga next on the wales must lose to list.
That was pretty crap 🙁 oh well can't have the ups without the downs.
You chaps know of somewhere I can watch the Lions this morning? Cheers.
Oh dear. 😯
Try not to be too upset wrecker us wales fan always know the team are only a few steps away from being utter shite its what makes the ups so good!!
jaunting try here:
http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=207646&part=sports
just remember turn on a pop up blocker and don't download anything, if ads get in the way go to full screen.
The British and Irish Lions would sooner "cheat" the best than "play" the best rugby, and it's no surprise given their coach is a New Zealander, according to former Australia coach Bob Dwyer.
Dwyer, who guided Australia to their maiden World Cup triumph in 1991, told The Australian newspaper the Lions were cheating at the scrum, the breakdown and in loose play.The comments are certain to ignite tensions between the Warren Gatland-coached Lions and the Wallabies ahead of their three-match series starting with the first test in Brisbane on June 22.
"We have a great game and there is massive scope for playing attractive rugby," Dwyer said in comments published on Saturday, hours before the Lions play the New South Wales Waratahs in Sydney.
"It's not supposed to be a contest to see who can cheat the best. It's who can play the best.
"One comment I'd like to make after having seen the Lions in action on tour is that it doesn't come as any surprise they're coached by a New Zealander because they play outside the laws of the game as every New Zealand side does."
Dwyer, 72, has long accused New Zealand teams of cheating, and in recent years has criticised captain Richie McCaw and the All Blacks forwards for using negative tactics and duping a succession of referees.
On Saturday, however, he failed to mention the Wallabies are also coached by a New Zealander, Robbie Deans, who was a long-term coach of McCaw at the Canterbury Crusaders before he took the Australia job in 2008.
Dwyer added the Lions forwards were illegally pushing upwards in the scrum to dislodge the opposing teams' hookers and win penalties and their props were binding illegally and putting their hand on the ground for extra stability.
"When they put the delayed shove on, they scrummage upwards so there is nowhere for the opposing hooker to go but up," he said.
"The thinking seems to be that if you can get a penalty so easily, why not do it?"
Lions players were also infringing at the breakdown, by going to ground to hold up the ball, while impeding opposing players arriving at the tackle area.
"They power past the ball by a metre and a half and then they hold on to defenders' jerseys," Dwyer added.
Further Dwyer complaints included the tourists screening their team mates going to receive kicks, and their decoy runners illegally making contact with opposing defenders to impede them.
"When they run decoy plays, the decoy runner invariably makes contact with the defender. He doesn't smash him out of the way or anything so blatant, but it has the effect of impeding the defence," Dwyer said.
"You don't have to be smart to cheat," he said.
"You just have to be a cheat."
Reuters
😀 😆 😆
Classic Oz. About time the mind games started properly.
any update on NZ v France?
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You chaps know of somewhere I can watch the Lions this morning? Cheers.
Sydney? 😉
NZ hammered France. 30-0
Couple of cracking tries, especially the length of the field breakout finished off under the posts by Barrett.
Now on with the main event....
Brilliant start!
If only we could get rid of Miles Harrison and Fatty Barnes.
A poorer commentary duo I can't imagine.
Cooked breakfast: check. Good Coffee: check. AB whitewash of French with two outstanding length of pitch tries: Check. Cracking Lions start: check. = happy sofa bound kiwifiz!
Zebo looking up for this. Philips could do with being a bit sharper.
Awful lot going on after the ball has been played away from the rucks in particular.
Zebo on fire, playing himself at least into test squad, admit his defence not fully tested yet. Heaslip should have done much better at the last scrum
Mm Zebo great in attack but worrying in defence, bit too lightweight in the tackle. 1/2p is the nailed on full back on this display.
I have to say I really like this novelty of cheering, rather than cringing, every time 1/2p gets the ball 😀
Personally I think it is the defensive system that can leave the wingers a bit exposed, in two minds who to take and making them look worse than they are. Except cuthbert he is poop in defence....and in saying the above and although scrambling maitland should not have missed that tackle.
Think j davies playing very well also
How is the back row working as s unit?
Backrow ok as a unit, heaslip not his very best I would say. Think they are benefitting from the tackle work of poc, awj and tom youngs.
Lions cutting loose now. 1/2p outstanding 😀 making himself a legend.
JD looking exceptional would be man of match if not for 1/2p, looking bad for doctor
JD superb I would have him at12 and bod at 13 irrespective of roberts being fit. Tom youngs prob best performance by hooker on tour so far. Poc and awj very good took a lot of work off backrow as did t youngs.
But warbs still with the highest tackle count i believe as you'd expect. Played solidly, nothing flashy, first to the breakdown, good captaincy.
Not able to see the game but I hear the lineout was good, was this the case?
Agree scamper.
A_a lineout was good but youngs only threw front and middle, hibbard threw one long and it missed target. Plenty of options with croft, poc and awj
Any good middle ball tapped off the top or was it slow?
Are the wallabies playing a warm up match?
Don't think they are.
Test team:
1. Mako
2. Youngs
3. Adam
4. AWJ
5. POC
6. Croft
7. Hovis
8. Heaslip
9. Phillips
10. Sexton
11. North
12. Davies
13. BOD
14. Zebo
15. 1/2p
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