All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2
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@PecoTrain said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@No-Quarter It's a common interpretation of the law by NH refs. I can't understand how it hasn't been clarified before now as while it makes sense for catching kicks, when a player chooses to jump to catch a poor pass or just because, they shouldn't benefit from that choice.
That's crazy, I've never seen anything like it. Makes an absolute farce of the game.
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Cruden did more to lose that tonight than SBW. One brain fart is forgivable but repeated brain farts under pressure is not.
Well done Lions for winning that - they held their nerve and got there in the end. Also well done to most of the ABs who tried their best to try and stop about 4-5 guys from flushing that.
I don't put Beauden's kicking squarely on him, selectors have tolerated it for too long and haven't seen it as an issue.
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Well, shit.
Firstly well done Lions, there were two good attacking movements in the game, they were both yours and both resulted in tries. You tried to lose with some brainless play, but held your nerve.
For us, poor. Couldn't do anything against their defense, and kicked away all our ball. Barrett was shit, Cruden no better. The attacking kicks were shit and just gave away our ball.
Realistically we were outplayed and i can't think of a good All Black to be honest. Lions better in most facets, Itoje and O'Brien were huge.
Fuck you SBW
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Lions man of the match
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Realistically we were outplayed and i can't think of a good All Black to be honest. Lions better in most facets, Itoje and O'Brien were huge.
Fark, you're tough. I'm immensely proud of teh ABs, to stick with the cream of the NH for 50 minutes with 14 men is incredible. And - to lose - took brain farts and a dodgy ref penalty.
Every AB who played tonight (except one) can be proud of what they did. We had no right to stay in that contest for as long as we did.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Well, shit.
Firstly well done Lions, there were two good attacking movements in the game, they were both yours and both resulted in tries. You tried to lose with some brainless play, but held your nerve.
For us, poor. Couldn't do anything against their defense, and kicked away all our ball. Barrett was shit, Cruden no better. The attacking kicks were shit and just gave away our ball.
Realistically we were outplayed and i can't think of a good All Black to be honest. Lions better in most facets, Itoje and O'Brien were huge.
Fuck you SBW
I thought Cane and ALB were faultless tonight
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Man Cruden kicking the ball away with 90 seconds was pretty hard to stomach. That's a 2% play. It was well covered by two Lions defenders. Lions had given away penalties all day. The plan should have been to work upfield, kick a drop goal and at least draw the series.
Also the quick lineout was so unnecessary.
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Looking at the bright side before I become incoherent, the series is alive and next week actually means something.
Secondly SBW won't be playing and I get to tell everyone who raves about him "I fucking told you so, he's a fluffybunny".Once again well done to the lions , opportunities are taken not handed out.
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I thought Cane, Brodie, Whitelock, and Moody were excellent. Ardie put in a good shift too. We just missed Kaino. That's too long, too short handed.
It wasn't helped by A) shitty goal kicking, and
shitty kicking. I don't think Cruden justifies his place, and he needs to be dropped.If Jordie Barrett is good enough, he must be picked. Dagg to 14, and I'm tempted to bring back Julian too. I'm totally over Ioane missing his first up tackles.
And, lastly, but mostly, well done Lions. They made hard work of it, but they got the job done, which was required the moment we lost SBW. Good on them!
