All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2
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@No-Quarter said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@JC said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Frank I'm hoping Naholo keeps his cool. Focus on positioning when he's defending, tackles legal and low. The rest of his game he's awesomeness waiting to happen.
No cross kicks for Naholo to chase would be a good idea.
Except for those low, skiddy ones behind the line that sit up perfectly and Nahalo just steams through and consumes it. I'm all for those ones.
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On the piss in town last night and I have to say that every single Lions fan is an absolute GGC. Great folk to talk shit with. Such a decent bunch. My Mum is a fan too after getting her car stuck on the ledge of a drive she was using to turn around in. A group of about 6 of them lifted her car ( Suzuki swift ) back onto the roadside. Legends.
Town is just pumping. 2005 all over again, only difference is my fucken head aches way more than it did at 28.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
On the piss in town last night and I have to say that every single Lions fan is an absolute GGC. Great folk to talk shit with. Such a decent bunch. My Mum is a fan too after getting her car stuck on the ledge of a drive she was using to turn around in. A group of about 6 of them lifted her car ( Suzuki swift ) back onto the roadside. Legends.
Town is just pumping. 2005 all over again, only difference is my fucken head aches way more than it did at 28.
Concussion? Would explain some of your comments around Scottish players.
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@pukunui said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@MN5 said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
On the piss in town last night and I have to say that every single Lions fan is an absolute GGC. Great folk to talk shit with. Such a decent bunch. My Mum is a fan too after getting her car stuck on the ledge of a drive she was using to turn around in. A group of about 6 of them lifted her car ( Suzuki swift ) back onto the roadside. Legends.
Town is just pumping. 2005 all over again, only difference is my fucken head aches way more than it did at 28.
Concussion? Would explain some of your comments around Scottish players.
Thats a fucken top burn there Puks. I'll take that one.
One Scots bloke in a kilt did whinge for about half an hour that Tommy Seymour wasn't in the 23 but he was buying the Panhead APAs so I listened and nodded intently.
No, I was not talking into a mirror
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@MN5 we knew it couldnt have been you, you said he was buying beers for someone else!
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@MN5 we knew it couldnt have been you, you said he was buying beers for someone else!
I know right? a generous Scotsman. Armageddon has happened.
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@No-Quarter said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
We doing score predictions?
Beauden to control the game from start to finish like he's done for the Canes in shitty conditions at the Cake tin.
ABs 41 - 6 Lions.
Wet and miserable conditions keeping scores low and close.
ABs 22 - Lions 16.
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Just read this:
Former British and Irish Lions rugby player and coach Sir Ian McGeechan has collapsed ahead of the second test between the All Blacks and Lions in Wellington. NZME reports the Scot has been rushed to hospital after collapsing in the commentary box at Westpac Stadium.
ABs 25-18
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the way the media talk about the conditions you'd think we've never played in the rain before!!
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@Catogrande said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@rotated said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Crucial said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Even with the weather set to be poor, Steve Hansen’s side are sure to score tries and for that reason we’re suggesting a New Zealand win on a scoreline of 28-15.
The worse the weather the more likely it is to be a blowout IMO. The gulf in ruck technique, ball handling and support play will become more apparent. If it is raining ABS will hit 40.
It was difficult coaxing attacking rugby out of the Lions on a flat track in good conditions, how far into their shell will they go with a light shower?
OK I'm here to be roasted on this but the Lions did not lose through lack of attacking intent and Gatland's selection for the second test is all about attack. I'm not saying this will be successful, but attitude is there in selection. Whether that plays through into performance is another matter.
Not to roast you but Sexton over Teo is about attack? Only from a kicking perspective if anything.
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A tad concerned about this game,the Lions have shown they are terribly difficult to break down and now given the conditions could be quite the arm wrestle,along with the French official and levelling conditions, I suspect this is going to be a lot closer than people think.
I still think we have the better skill level to do the business,quite frankly I would take a one point win,but it wouldn't surprise me if the unthinkable happened..!Just these little anomalies bothering me.
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@Steven-Harris said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
A tad concerned about this game,the Lions have shown they are terribly difficult to break down and now given the conditions could be quite the arm wrestle,along with the French official and levelling conditions, I suspect this is going to be a lot closer than people think.
I still think we have the better skill level to do the business,quite frankly I would take a one point win,but it wouldn't surprise me if the unthinkable happened..!Just these little anomalies bothering me.
If they did win the series would be kept alive which would make the next test close to a rwc final . It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world apart from having to see Gatland being insufferably smug.
