Highlanders v B&I Lions

@Nepia I really only used the Whitelock comparison because they showed his and Warbutons stats as part of the post match interviews. Couldn't be bothered looking up others.

Doesn't matter who you compare him to, I don't think Warbuton had a great game and his stats back that up (in my opinion)

taniwharugby

@Stockcar86 said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@Billy-Tell said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

A few Qs from the match

Did Jared Payne really grow up playing rugby in NZ?

He was great playing for Northland, then playing for Chiefs under Foster then Blues under Lam beat all the flair out of him

think he played for the Chiefs prior to coming to Northland, then went to saders first, then to the Blues.

KiwiMurph

@taniwharugby said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@Stockcar86 said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@Billy-Tell said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

A few Qs from the match

Did Jared Payne really grow up playing rugby in NZ?

He was great playing for Northland, then playing for Chiefs under Foster then Blues under Lam beat all the flair out of him

think he played for the Chiefs prior to coming to Northland, then went to saders first, then to the Blues.

He actually played really well initially for the Blues - then the games he played after he had announced he was overseas it was like he had one foot on the plane.

Tim

He had an absolute shocker against the Reds in the playoff game.

dogmeat

I wonder what the results of the Crusaders and Highlanders games would have been if the referees were swapped over.

Even allowing for differing strengths of Lions opposition I reckon Highlanders may have struggled but not sure given their tactical stupidity that the Crusaders would have been able to take advantage of Gardners "super rugby" interpretations.

Their was nothing startling about the Highlanders counter to the Lions rush defence last night - I'm sure we were all screaming for a similar approach from the Crusaders on Saturday night. One thing for sure though - the Lions approach last night is just playing right to Beauden's main strengths

taniwharugby

@KiwiMurph yep, pretty sure after he had an awesome season of ITM and then started brilliantly in the super season there was even whispers of him being an outside shot in Black, then he signed on the green line and then....

Salacious Crumb

@MiketheSnow said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

Poor bastard

Kiwi sphincters were watertight every time ball came near him. Thinking about it Lions were returning from their historic 71 triumph, ABs had some rough years losing to Poms then 76 Bok series, people were shitting themselves. Farrell played the first two test matches a win-and a loss, got the heave. Very-very tight series, 4th test decided by a single-point for the series win.
1st 16-12
2nd 9-13
3rd 19-7
4th 10-9

dogmeat

@Salacious-Crumb

Laurie Knight scored the winning try in the last minutes of the 4th test at Eden Park. I was in temporary seating in front of the North Stand and we all jumped about so much it collapsed.

Poor old Colin Farrell. Even for Auckland he was pretty hit and miss although for the times he was a counter-attacking fullback. We certainly has some shocking fullbacks after Karam went to league

Main v2 & Fawcett I'm gonna score more off the field than on it in 76 Duncan Robertosn Bevan Wilson seemed like a rugby god after that lot

pakman

@taniwharugby The Highlanders played the way Braveheart would have wished them to! Very inspiring.

Bones

Wooooooo the fucken hoooo! That is all.

Oh and Kaye's - I still remember when he bad-mouthed one of Waller or Watt in a column and they king hit him at training the week after. Then he had a big moan about it in his next column.

Milk

I don't mind Kayes that much. His cunning-Alinghi joke that @booboo referred to was terrible enough for us to still remember years and years later. Particularly terrible because he was asked a question about what the news headline following a rugby game would be, and he decided it was time to use a joke he had clearly saved up that wasn't funny, relevant, or appropriate.

On the other hand, I liked that he growled at Ali Williams and SBW when they were doing their lame press conference routine.

ACT Crusader

@Bovidae said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@No-Quarter said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

It was a shame Joseph was the one to knock it on at the end there, he played really well tonight.

I thought the pass to him looked forward anyway.

Watched it again and it looked okay to me, other than it being thrown at a hundred miles an hour....

I actually thought that was the right play for the Lions rather than go the maul off the lineout. The lineout was a fair ways out and the Lions were making decent yards through Joseph and others.

booboo

@ACT-Crusader said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@Bovidae said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@No-Quarter said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

It was a shame Joseph was the one to knock it on at the end there, he played really well tonight.

I thought the pass to him looked forward anyway.

Watched it again and it looked okay to me, other than it being thrown at a hundred miles an hour....

I actually thought that was the right play for the Lions rather than go the maul off the lineout. The lineout was a fair ways out and the Lions were making decent yards through Joseph and others.

They didn't need a 5 pointer though. I was sure they'd maul for a penalty.

Salacious Crumb

@dogmeat said in Highlanders v B&I Lions:

@Salacious-Crumb

Laurie Knight scored the winning try in the last minutes of the 4th test at Eden Park. I was in temporary seating in front of the North Stand and we all jumped about so much it collapsed.

pakman

My dad jumped out of his armchair and took out the chandelier above!

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