Springboks v British & Irish Lions I
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Watson fucking lucky to stay on the field after that tip tackle.
Boks are 10-man Rugby at best. Pollard was a superstar at age level but is a fucking awful test 10 with grown ups. As soon as the wingers started dropping the ball from the endless hoist balls, they were fucked. Kwagga Smith had a shocker, too.
Was a game built around discipline, mainly, and the boks weren't up to it.
Itoje got MOTM. I thought Lawes was more influential, overall.
Alun Wyn Jones is a good leader - always talking to the refs, steady as she goes at the start of that second half and build into a lead.
What a shit game to watch.
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@mikethesnow said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
@gibbonrib said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
@sparky said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
Lawes, AWJ and Itoje has been massive for the Lions.
I thought Lawes was terrible and AWJ invisible in the first half. But good second half from all of them.
Ha fucking ha
Lawes should have been MOTM
Then Kwagga
Expected Lawes to be mom. He really delivered throughout.
Expected to hear more of the Itoje 5m turnover while kneeling on players though. That strange non-call had a huge impact on the game. Berry v good otherwise.
Thought only Daly and Curry under performed for Lions. But the Boks lost it with a poor impact from the entire bench. I did not expect that. -
@mn5 said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
Rassie Erasmus said something nice on twitter which I’d share if I knew how.
In reply to official Twitter result tweet
No excuses this side!! You are far away from home, families and going through same tough covid protocols like we do!! Congrats and well deserved !!!
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Was funny seeing Gats celebrating at the end, I thought he's going a bit OTT, then I remembered that's his first win in a loooong time.
I'm in the expected Lawes to MOTM camp too, apparently Itoje just has to turn up though.
I want the Boks to win the next two, one because I can't support the Lions, their ok parts (Scotland and Wales) are cancelled out by the other two. Plus, I want the Boks (assuming we get to play them) to be on top of their game when we play them, and not broken from a series loss.
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@nepia said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
I want the Boks to win the next two,
Should be a really tight series; eitehr side could easily have won that game if tight refereeing decisions fell their way. Next weekend will be huge - I may well get up for it, biggest game outside RWC in this cycle I reckon
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Have the boks won a test since the wc ?
Imagine if they lost this 3-0 , I don’t think it’s an impossibility, gats had them pretty determined on the Nz tour ,
Be a massive fall from grace
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@kiwiinmelb They havent played since.
Given the country is falling apart i don't think it would be that shocking.
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@kiwiinmelb do they lose ranking points?
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@nzzp said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
@akan004 ah bollocks - yeah< i thought a card would be the right call. It's like head high tackles though, the framework just gets ignored.
Actually, I didn't really mention it, but I thought that was a bad call, in the context of a TMO that went back for a 'head high' that was amrginal earlier in the game.
There was a massive hit in the first half from a springbok that I thought they might have reviewed- I was going to rewind but got distracted but it looked like a shoulder no arms type thing
And also the penalty for the late hit on de Klerk in first half was a bit much
Expecting the Boks to come back way stronger in game two and hopefully we will see their back line running it hard a bit more
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@nevorian said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
@nzzp said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
And also the penalty for the late hit on de Klerk in first half was a bit muchCan't agree with that, it was a cynical cheap shot, well deserving of a penalty. Wasn't dangerous or anything, but giving a penalty just says cut out that nonsense. Let it go and the ref would have more of the same to deal with later.
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@gibbonrib it was no arms as well.
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@bovidae said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
Georgia was an official test wasn't it?
Yes, just saw someone post 1 win streak is the shortest of any reigning world champ
Didn’t enjoy that overly…really felt like neither had anything up their sleeve, no moves or anything so if they hit it up and didn’t break the line they box kick
Both game play was get within kicking range and then hope for a penalty
Woke this morning to a lot of shit talk about how bad South Africa were but thought the score was about right tightness wise
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@kiwiwomble said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
@bovidae said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions 1:
Georgia was an official test wasn't it?
Yes, just saw someone post 1 win streak is the shortest of any reigning world champ
Didn’t enjoy that overly…really felt like neither had anything up their sleeve, no moves or anything so if they hit it up and didn’t break the line they box kick
Both game play was get within kicking range and then hope for a penalty
Woke this morning to a lot of shit talk about how bad South Africa were but thought the score was about right tightness wise
Was wondering how Englands streak was given that they lost to NZ here in 04 but then I remembered they woulda played an entire six nations cos the world was a bit more normal then.
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