Springboks v British & Irish Lions III

[Billy Tell]

I will watch this game because it’s 1-1. Had the lions won yesterday, probably wouldn’t have bothered. Dire series with turgid tests. The lions can’t out-boks the boks so they need to change tactics. A better 10 than biggar would be a good start.

[MiketheSnow]

Agree with the above

We need speed and guile

If fit,

Jones LCD Furlong
AWJ Beard
Beirne Faletau Watson

Price Biggar
Henshaw Harris
Adams Williams LRZ

Mako George Sinckler
Itoje
Curry Simmonds

Davies Smith

[GibbonRib]

@mikethesnow said in Springboks v BIL III:

Agree with the above

We need speed and guile

If fit,

Jones LCD Furlong
AWJ Beard
Beirne Faletau Watson

Price Biggar
Henshaw Harris
Adams Williams LRZ

Mako George Sinckler
Itoje
Curry Simmonds

Davies Smith

No Navidi?

[Bones]

From what I'm seeing on social media, the lions loss was completely engineered by Rassie, so probably no point turning up for the 3rd test.

[MiketheSnow]

@gibbonrib said in Springboks v BIL III:

@mikethesnow said in Springboks v BIL III:

Agree with the above

We need speed and guile

If fit,

Jones LCD Furlong
AWJ Beard
Beirne Faletau Watson

Price Biggar
Henshaw Harris
Adams Williams LRZ

Mako George Sinckler
Itoje
Curry Simmonds

Davies Smith

No Navidi?

Instead of whom?

[Billy Tell]

@mikethesnow said in Springboks v BIL III:

Agree with the above

We need speed and guile

If fit,

Jones LCD Furlong
AWJ Beard
Beirne Faletau Watson

Price Biggar
Henshaw Harris
Adams Williams LRZ

Mako George Sinckler
Itoje
Curry Simmonds

Davies Smith

I’m not a forward so no comment there. But backs price, Farrell, adams, aki, henshaw, lrz, williams

[MiketheSnow]

@billy-tell said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions III:

@mikethesnow said in Springboks v BIL III:

Agree with the above

We need speed and guile

If fit,

Jones LCD Furlong
AWJ Beard
Beirne Faletau Watson

Price Biggar
Henshaw Harris
Adams Williams LRZ

Mako George Sinckler
Itoje
Curry Simmonds

Davies Smith

I’m not a forward so no comment there. But backs price, Farrell, adams, aki, henshaw, lrz, williams

I've changed my mind about the centres to your suggestion

Aki, Henshaw

But Farrell should be in the stands sitting in the middle of Murray and Daly

[OomPB]

Looking forward to this one. Hope PSdT will be back. Lood, Trevor pushed for starting spots. Would like to see more of Marko van Staden.

The starting XV must change at some stage. It's a long season ahead.

[OomPB]

A statement from World Rugby read: "British and Irish Lions player Kyle Sinckler will attend an independent disciplinary hearing after he was cited by Scott Nowland (Australia) for an act of foul play contrary to Law 9.12 (biting) in the second test against South Africa in Cape Town on 31 July, 2021

[Catogrande]

@oompb

If true, he needs to cop whatever is coming his way. No place for that.

[pakman]

@oompb can only hope for the good of the game that this isn’t sustained.

[MN5]

@bones said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions III:

From what I'm seeing on social media, the lions loss was completely engineered by Rassie, so probably no point turning up for the 3rd test.

Way too many useless Scotsmen too but I could have told them that.

[Machpants]

@oompb said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions III:

A statement from World Rugby read: "British and Irish Lions player Kyle Sinckler will attend an independent disciplinary hearing after he was cited by Scott Nowland (Australia) for an act of foul play contrary to Law 9.12 (biting) in the second test against South Africa in Cape Town on 31 July, 2021

Dirty underhand shit from Sinckler? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

[Kirwan]

@machpants said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions III:

@oompb said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions III:

A statement from World Rugby read: "British and Irish Lions player Kyle Sinckler will attend an independent disciplinary hearing after he was cited by Scott Nowland (Australia) for an act of foul play contrary to Law 9.12 (biting) in the second test against South Africa in Cape Town on 31 July, 2021

Dirty underhand shit from Sinckler? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

Biting? Really? Gross.

[pakman]

David Skippers  /  Aug 1, 2021  /  South Africa

Springboks receive Duane Vermeulen boost

The Springboks have received a boost with the news that Duane Vermeulen will join their squad ahead of Saturday's third Test against the Lions.

[GibbonRib]

There's a reason Gatland was reluctant to call Sinkler up - he wasn't originally named, was only called up after Porter was injured.

This is that reason.

[MiketheSnow]

We got lucky in I

We got stuffed in II, and let's not forget that SA's best player - PSDT - had no impact on the match

If Gatland approaches III with just needing to tighten up the existing game plan we may well narrow the margin but the result will be the same, and the series will be lost

We have the personnel & ability to play like France - grit and guile - which I think is the answer, but does Warren have the appetite to go away from his bread & butter?

As we saw with his stint at the Chiefs, I'm not optimistic

[GibbonRib]

@mikethesnow agree with all this. I desperately want to see the Lions try something different. Not radically different, I don't want to see Finn Russell steering us to a 40 point hiding, just get Biggar to reduce the amount he kicks down to, say, 95%

[SidBarret]

@mikethesnow it's funny how a narrative develops over the course of a tour.

I feel the Lions completely lost their bottle after Sharks II and the SA A game after they conceded four tries from turnovers. The lions were clearly under instruction not try anything in the tests.

[MiketheSnow]

@sidbarret said in Springboks v British & Irish Lions III:

@mikethesnow it's funny how a narrative develops over the course of a tour.

I feel the Lions completely lost their bottle after Sharks II and the SA A game after they conceded four tries from turnovers. The lions were clearly under instruction not try anything in the tests.

Indeed

Very disappointing