Lions v Blues

[Duluth]

@gt12

Good point. Then we might as well go all out attack - Duffie to fullback and Clarke on the wing. Try to win games 55-50

[Dice]

@tim said in Lions v Blues:

Nick Mallett on the game:

http://www.sarugbymag.co.za/blog/details/lions-loss-is-worrying

Full credit to the Blues. They made 938m against 547 for the Lions. The Lions had to make 177 tackles and 86 for the Blues. The Lions missed 32 tackles against 12 for the Blues. The Blues made 208 passes to 110 for the Lions, so nearly twice as many, and they enjoyed 63% territory as opposed to 37%. Those are really dominant statistics in terms of metres made, forcing the opposition to tackle more and, in the end, it was the better team that won.

We were meant to end this game with no legs, but it was the Lions who ended up gassing because of how many tackles they had to make.

Although our bench did well, I'm wary of expecting them to repeat that feat, as they were given a pretty favourable situation to come into.