The speed of this is ridiculous.
The speed of this is ridiculous.
James Tedesco is going to be scary good for the Roosters.
Fit FInlay vs Umaga confirmed for Summerslam.
I think the only way you turn that sort of twatting around is if Johnathan Thurston comes back and does a 2005 Andrew Johns, and Johns never had to contend with half of his pack being shit (out of form if you're being charitable). The back row is sound, but the props and the interchange are laughably outclassed, to the point where you can easily name five better players that New South Wales never even selected.
Missed the whole game. Good one to miss by the sound of it?
That "haka" was very awkward... proper embarrassing. I still have no idea why the oppo don't just walk around talking to each other, rather than standing there like schoolboys.
This stadium is pretty awesome - one of the floodlights is just plopped right in the middle of the stand.
Inspiring stuff, this.
Great try but fucking hell, the back line just hasn't dealt with anything today. The forwards have been well up for it and getting shit to happen but the backs need to sort their lives out if what I've seen of this has been anything to go by.
Also I wish somebody would tell Will Greenwood that we know he's seen a game of American football and he can stop fucking talking about running backs and pockets.
From what I've seen of Super Rugby, it's of a better standard than our internationals.
New Zealand Super Rugby is on another level. Us and the Saffas are absolutely hopeless.
Wait there's now a third type of Rugby? Can't you lot take a break from drinking each others piss or whatever homoerotic act you've 'dared' each other to do and agree on a ruleset?
Warren Gatland had a seethe the other day when someone asked him whether Gatlandball had been cracked.
It doesn't bode well for the weekend if they couldn't turn over the Blues, Crusaders are a different level to this lot, it's almost as if lumping a load of crap Welshmen into the side is somehow not the best approach.
I've seen the Blues live in Eden Park last year and they are not a side to fuck around with so beating the lions is what they probably deserve.
The Kiwis are seething.
I didn't see it, what are they whinging about now? Did another team have the temerity to cheat too.
Can't win games with penalties apparently and Northern Hemisphere officials don't know the rules. Standard kiwi whinge.
Perfect, I hope the Lions win the first test 0-3
I would use a 0-3 win over the All Blacks as foreplay with the missus.
From what I saw of it they absolutely battered them, without ever being able to not throw the crucial pass into the runner's face.
The Crusaders played poorly, but were made to do so.
Disappointed Cokanasiga isn't involved in this Argie match, he looks like a monster.
Denny Lolomona has come on and given away two tries in about 3 minutes. Great game though.
And then scores the winning points by running 40 yards with his first touch. What a game.
Provided they actually get a decent settlement, Castleford are still lolling at him leaving. A wheelie bin could have scored forty tries on their left edge, as evidenced by Greg fucking Eden being well on his way to doing just that.
He looks like he can score a try or two but was he always so suspect in defence?
He was alright on the wing because he can whack people and he had clever centre partners telling him where to go, but when they tried him at full-back he might as well have not been there.
The land of the precious are now obsessing about your scrum.
What are we supposed to have done, then?
Rugby is literally all they have over there.
Complaining about the pre-loading tactics used in the scrum. @Ian
Something they think only the ABs should be allowed to do.
The key is to be genuinely competitive, at least. We can't have another Woodward-style shitfest. I read an article before this Tour about 2005, where Woodward was basically giving it large about how it didn't matter and he didn't really care anyway etc. etc.
Wanker.
It's a bold prediction, but I reckon we're going to get murdered in all three tests.
It would be better if they treated and selected it like a Barbarians tour but with the best players, rather than an actual deadly fucking serious attempt to grind out wins at any cost, which apparently it is.
This lot are good enough to win a couple but I'm not sure the coach is. Imagine this shit with Lord Edward in charge.
Forgot this was on so I've got up and turned on just in time for it to be really close.
Can't win a game on pens mate.
I'm smelling an ambush in the first Test.
Were they playing today so as not to clash with State of Origin?
Playing so many games in such short order is idiotic. What's the point? None of these are actual lions teams. If you have to have a midweek schedule, then it needs to be against suitable opposition. Leave the test team to play the weekends.
Notice the boring in on that match winning scrum?
The problem with having a seperate side for the tests is, well, 2005 basically.
As shambolic as that tour was they were always going to get murdered, so I don't know what input the schedule/set-up had. I have fond memories of Austin Healy's midweek trolling extravaganza back in 2001.
Splitting the teams kills motivation, if the midweek guys can't play themselves into a test spot (and vice versa) then what's the point?