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    2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia
  • MN5M MN5

    @antipodean said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

    @MN5 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

    @antipodean said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

    At a Lions Lunch with Ieyan Evans, Joe Schmidt, Ronana O'Gara and a bunch of Brumbies. Hope to remember and share anything memorable and or insightful.

    Will probably be too pissed.

    Judging by some of the spelling you already are.

    Have fun !

    Turns out I got worse.

    God bless.

    Any good yarns ? Maybe you decided a repeat of the Duncan McRae/Ronan O’Gara incident from 2001 was in order ?


  • Springboks v Barbarians
  • F Frank

    @MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Barbarians:

    Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career

    Ahead of Ben Smith? Nah


  • All Blacks v France 2
  • F Frank

    With the move away from Rieko at center, we've got three 12s and one 13.
    It would be nice if Big Jim or Tupaea could cover 13.
    Both are going to be dropped if ALB is still in favor.


  • All Blacks v France 2
  • Canes4lifeC Canes4life

    @ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v France 2:

    @Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

    Got told to not be surprised to see a small bit of rotation in the forward pack as well. Didn’t manage to get names unfortunately.

    Two changes to the bench in the forwards.

    Keen to elaborate?


  • Rugby or NFL
  • No QuarterN No Quarter

    I also take the point that this would take a pretty big cultural shift. Screaming at the ref for your sides inadequacies is very ingrained in rugby, more so than it ever was in cricket.


  • All Blacks v France 2
  • ACT CrusaderA ACT Crusader

    @Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

    Got told to not be surprised to see a small bit of rotation in the forward pack as well. Didn’t manage to get names unfortunately.

    Two changes to the bench in the forwards.


  • Rugby or NFL
  • No QuarterN No Quarter

    @barbarian said in Rugby or NFL:

    @No-Quarter said in Rugby or NFL:

    @MN5 said in Rugby or NFL:

    @No-Quarter said in Rugby or NFL:

    One thing that the review system in cricket has really helped with is taking the heat off the umpires. There is so much less scrutiny on them these days. If an umpire gets a call wrong, then the expectation immediately falls on the players to review. If they don't review, then it's much harder to just blame the umpire when the professional players didn't notice either. Then in the scenario where the umpire gets a call wrong and the players don't have any reviews left, then the first comment is they shouldn't have wasted their reviews on calls they got wrong and the umpire got wrong. I think that's been a really good thing overall.

    Rugby is a very different sport to cricket though, but some form of onus on the players also making the right call would help, at the moment the assumption is all the players on the field except the ref knew what happened in the moment, and that won't be true at all.

    Good God.

    If Rugby allowed players to review that might kill the game stone dead. Imagine if Jonny Sexton was still playing ?

    The idea being it removes the TMO from intervening, or intervening much less. At the moment the TMO is randomly intervening, causing huge delays in some games where he thinks there's a lot to make calls on.

    Little Jonny could blow his only two reviews in the first 10 minutes then bitch and moan about calls against him for the rest of the game, and it'd fall on deaf ears because he wasted his reviews on calls he got wrong.

    I just don't think this would work well in practice.

    Here's a scenario that happens fairly regularly - ball carrier in tight, carrier 2/3 tacklers over the line, mass of bodies but knocks the ball on slightly before grounding it over the line.

    It would be understandable the players might not see this, nor the referee. But the cameras pick it up. I'm not sure it's fair on the defending side to expect them to challenge something they had no way of seeing. So does the TMO intervene, or let a dodgy try stand?

    Cricket already lives with this scenario where say the batsmen has faintly edged it, the umpire gives it not out, and the bowling side doesn't review even though the 3rd umpire can see a clear edge on the slow mo and snicko etc. In that scenario, the immediate reaction from fans is they should have reviewed it, not that the 3rd umpire should have intervened even though technically he could have. It puts the onus back on the players as well as the ref, which helps people remember that they are all human out there doing their best.


  • Springboks v Barbarians
  • antipodeanA antipodean

    @MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Barbarians:

    Much maligned

    Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career

    Good on you boy, enjoy your century

    We could not have more disparate opinions on Willie le Roux.


  • All Blacks v France 2
  • boobooB booboo

    @Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

    Sorry I couldn’t get the back line for last week. Made up for it this week and getting Test 2’s nice and early.

    1. C. Roigard
    2. B. Barrett
    3. C. Clarke
    4. J. Barrett
    5. B. Proctor
    6. R. Ioane
    7. W. Jordan

    Bench
    21. C. Ratima
    22. T. Tavatavanawai
    23. D. McKenzie

    Like that


  • 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia
  • antipodeanA antipodean

    @His-Bobness said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

    That’s a mortal blow to the Wallabies and you have to feel for them. I’m not sure Donaldson offers much as a replacement.

    I think they're better off for the injury.

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