Bloody home TMO’s

Jonkers, we must have some kompromat on him. Pee tape.

You nearly spoke too soon! 😬

Dubtoit was ahead if the kicker in the first place!

Yeah but South Africa.

Ken Owens is awesum.

I loves him. Total throwback as well, the players bar in Murrayfield was full of isotonic **** and the sheriff with a pint.

…never…ship…on…bad…ball…

Lawes MOM for me.

Did I ever mention how much I love Lawes

How good has he been? Gets one very long arm on a player and they are down.

YEEEESS!

I’m optimistically going 23-18 Lions

Not a bad prediction 😉

Satisfactory

Both sides will get better

Wolverine lasted the full 80 too, you doubted

Lawes or Itoje for MoM ?

Got to have a shout out to Alun Wyn for playing 80 mins. A real talisman for us.

Daly a weak link though? I’d put Harris in for the next match tbh

He did, Fecker is actually a mutant.

Daly did good really, tough job there.

Also to be fair to Jonkers, he was straight.

Man, that was tense. Curry (aside the stupid pen), Itoje, AWJ and Lawes were immense.
Anthony Watson, Daly and Farrell have gotta go.
Superb victory after how they controlled the first half, without actually doing much.

Anthony Watson

Did we watch the same game? Apart from receiving about 2 passes to do anything with, he defended well. Farrel read the game and played well at 10, and 100% kicks at goal… 😉

Daly vs SA is the issue, he gave nothing outside of him.

I have a horrible suspicion Mish may be buying whatever the SA equivalent of Fox’s biscuits are…

Did we watch the same game? Apart from receiving about 2 passes to do anything with, he defended well. Farrel read the game and played well at 10

Interesting game innit.
Tell you what though, I was so chuffed and utterly amazed when they brought Elton on. He’s rubbish! Always has been. Incredible that he’s been in the squad so long.
Queue Kryton – “He’s a rugby genius!” 😂

Actually, Watson was ok, just think there are better wingers available

Wasn’t a day for wingers…centres…full backs…stand offs…scrum halves.

Who did get MoM?
Also Mako and Sinkler made a big difference, I’m not gonna slate the first front row, I think they had a tougher job.
I think we missed May, he is good in fronty games.

Itoje got MoM

https://www.lionsrugby.com/2021/07/24/pundits-discuss-who-impressed-for-lions-in-first-test-win/

Hogg…average to poor for him
Watson…did well with what he had to do
Daly…..cant decide really, he was targeted and found a little short, Aki and Henshaw may have been better today.
DvDM… Did ok.
Biggar… Did ok
Price…not a great game, no pace and kicks were a bit long but got no protection first half.
Conan…did ok
Curry…was good, daft pen aside.
Lawes…very good second half.
Itoje…immense
AWJ…solid
Furlong…very good in scrums
LCD… Did well, didn’t carry enough for me
Sutherland…was outshone by Mako

I thought Price was OK, if you look at the dividends from his kicks they were good. IE lots of confusion amongst SA when they ran them back and often their return kicks just yielded nothing or went into touch.
All of our backs missed lots of tackles.

Interesting that commentators that questioned certain picks have concluded that those picks didn’t play well. Price apparently had a mare and played well.

Itoje is a freak!

I have tried to avoid posting this as TJ is not around to defend him, but when Watson first came on he tried to bounce his way through Etzebeth and got completely monstered, picked up and hurled backwards towards the SA jackler’s, was quite funny.

To be fair “Mish” did play pretty well apart from the fog/tip. Not many lions didn’t get knocked back at some point. AWJ even took a few backwards steps in contact.

To be fair “Mish” did play pretty well apart from the fog/tip.

He was very lucky to not get yellow!! Once he calmed down he was good

AWJ even took a few backwards steps in contact.

He does regularly, he not great at carrying, he is used to reset shit ball mainly, get clattered and then go again.

I’m surprised that refs haven’t spotted faf’s weird berserker frenzies. He rag dolled himself into one maul in leading with shoulder and definitely not legally.

Curry and Mish should both have seen yellow.

So team for this Saturday then??
Mako
LCD
Furlong OR Sinks
AWJ
Itoje
Lawes
Curry
Conan
Price
Biggar
DVDM
Farrell
I CAN’T DECIDE.
Watson – I want to say LRZ, in attack he is amazing, but I don’t know what his defence is like.
Loopy Liam just cos Hogg lost the plot.

Mako wil be chewed up and spat out by that SA front row. Which will paint a weak scrum picture to the ref.

Mako wil be chewed up and spat out by that SA front row. Which will paint a weak scrum picture to the ref.

Like he was Saturday? Hmmm.

They changed the front row at half time, he didn’t face the starting line up. The lions starting front row pretty much had the SA sub front row beat (apart from marks he’s an animal) whereas they struggled against the SA starters.