B&I Lions 2017
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@Stargazer said in B&I Lions 2017:
Drag Donal Lenihan to give the old "1971 Canterbury" speech. Won't really work (not that it did the first time) but seems like a move Gats would make.
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@Billy-Tell said in B&I Lions 2017:
@Stargazer said in B&I Lions 2017:
No replacement will be named apparently, but if there were one
Zebo?
Earls?
May?
Brown?Earls was absolutely excellent for Ireland vs USA, the best I have ever seen him play in a green jersey.
If you wanted a like for like replacement, how about Nick Abendanon?
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@Duluth said in B&I Lions 2017:
Cover fullback from within the current squad and bring in Ford
While not a bad call that would be admitting the first selections were wrong. So, unlikely.
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@Catogrande said in B&I Lions 2017:
@Billy-Tell said in B&I Lions 2017:
@Stargazer said in B&I Lions 2017:
No replacement will be named apparently, but if there were one
Zebo?
Earls?
May?
Brown?Earls was absolutely excellent for Ireland vs USA, the best I have ever seen him play in a green jersey.
If you wanted a like for like replacement, how about Nick Abendanon?
If you are doing French exiles, then David Strettle is fairly decent too.
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Yeah, its not a prediction. Just what I think they should do
Ford at 10 and Farrell at 12. As you said it would be admitting the initial selection was wrong, it would be admitting the backs aren't converting enough opportunities and it would be copying Eddie Jones
Gatland would never do any of that.
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Dell and Russell’s call-ups come after Wales’ Cory Hill, Kristian Dacey, Gareth Davies and Tomas Francis joined the squad on Saturday afternoon following their Test against Tonga in Auckland on Friday. -
Russell and Davies are both there or there abouts, so fair enough (would rather Davies than Laidlaw any day). The rest are a joke. If geography is an issue and you always planned this, why not call up the best guys available 3 or 4 days earlier and give time to get over jet lag?
Even if you limit yourself to Wales and Scotland, I'm not sure how Dacey and Hill got in ahead of Brown and Gray
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@Margin_Walker said in B&I Lions 2017:
Russell and Davies are both there or there abouts, so fair enough (would rather Davies than Laidlaw any day). The rest are a joke. If geography is an issue and you always planned this, why not call up the best guys available 3 or 4 days earlier and give time to get over jet lag?
Even if you limit yourself to Wales and Scotland, I'm not sure how Dacey and Hill got in ahead of Brown and Gray
Word on the street is the Welsh boys trained with the Lions in Wales when a large number of the squad were still involved in club competitions.
So know the system and calls etc.
They're not the best Welsh players, Davies aside, because Wales have Samoa next weekend.
They'll be ready to train tomorrow (Sunday), the Scots won't.
And I also heard that Eddie said no players would leave the England camp until the Tests were done. So that rules out Launchbury and Ford. Even though they should have gone in the first place.
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You got a link to Eddie saying he wouldn't release England players until after the tests? Find that hard to believe, but happy to be proved wrong.
Regardless of knowing the calls I reckon Launchbury would make a better fist of the midweek games than Hill. It's done now though so no point moaning, but Gatland better win a test or two, or this sort of thing is likely to be what's remembered.
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Rumour mill. Fake news.
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@Kruse said in B&I Lions 2017:
That
is a car crash.Has Steve Hanson said anything that bad ?
I ve heard him speak about them , but it seems to be when he has been asked a question about what he expects from them , or how he thinks they are going
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@kiwiinmelb yeah I was wondering what Hansen has said that has been controversial
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11877875
The column is behind a pay wall, so I can't access it, but this is the link:
Refereeing in Lions Test series will be inconsistent: it is a product of the system
If anyone truly believes there will be consistency of refereeing in the Lions Test series against New Zealand, they should think again.
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@kiwiinmelb said in B&I Lions 2017:
@Kruse said in B&I Lions 2017:
Has Steve Hanson said anything that bad ?
I ve heard him speak about them , but it seems to be when he has been asked a question about what he expects from them , or how he thinks they are going
Maybe it's about Hansen's predictions about Gatland "calling in the cavalry"?
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@Stargazer said in B&I Lions 2017:
@kiwiinmelb said in B&I Lions 2017:
@Kruse said in B&I Lions 2017:
Has Steve Hanson said anything that bad ?
I ve heard him speak about them , but it seems to be when he has been asked a question about what he expects from them , or how he thinks they are going
Maybe it's about Hansen's predictions about Gatland "calling in the cavalry"?
Seeing as Gatland said before the tour that he was like to add to the squad, not that much of a prediction!
