All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2
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Every AB loss has a "perfect storm" feel to it
No way should a Lions test team not beat any other team, 15 against 14 for nearly an hour.
Our last 10 mins showed it's basically,physically impossible to keep up the speed of the game for 55 minutes with 14 men. The lads were knackered and all those wee mistakes they talk about when you're fatigued, kicked in. i don't think they deserve too vitriolic criticism under those circumstances - one of them will cop it...
Ref was fine. Got heaps of offsides. The problem is that the fucking WR knobs are defying reality to satisfy, presumably, a bunch of pansies who don't even watch rugby. We were told never jump, "it's dangerous, dumb and you'll probably get hurt"
what else can Faumuina do there? And bang, there's the win!
Jumping Jews of Jerusalem would be world fucking champions
However I'm stoked (yep, that word) for the Lions fans. well done, your boys did what they should and tackled like hard bastards (skipper spoke well too) and now we've got the show down next week.
Fucking Great!!
What TRUE rugby fan wouldn't welcome a winner takes all between the Lions and the Al Blacks?
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@SimonAdd_2 I went back and checked and it was O'Brien whose forearm to Naholos head concussed him. That would be a loss and given the circumstances you would have to say he will be sited.
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@Tregaskis said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Duluth In venom, or in number of posts?
If it's a linux server hosting it, there is a metric for "heartbreak". And "Fucking stupid ex-league players vitriol"
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Well done Lions. Took your chances and held your nerve at the end. AB's did pretty well playing with 14 for most of the match. Just a few mistakes took it out of our hands, and into the hands of the Lions and, to a lesser degree, the ref.
Our tactics seem to get worse, and in the last 20 we did a bunch of dumb stuff. Alongside the missed kicks that was a bridge too far. Volume went to 11 when Cruden did that lame ass kick for Laumape. Totally missed the fact that holding the ball to force a penalty, or try opportunity, was the far better option.
SBW...fuck... can be a damn hard player to support. Especially when his accidental shit stacks up with his intentional dumb shit!! That was top drawer stupid play. No upside whatsoever with a tackle like that. At the time I wondered if he pulled his arm so he didn't smoke Naholo, but leading with the shoulder and no arms leads to no good.
BB missed a couple of pretty easy kicks. Plus he didn't get any jammy tries either! Big third test for you mate!
Very interested to see what our backline looks like for the last test. SBW and Naholo may be out - and Cruden could get snaked by Lima. Although that's unlikely if we have even more new guys starting.
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@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
My Facebook feed is full of crowing wallaby fans
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@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
Nothing like an AB loss to bring out the posters!
I hate it when the ABs lose, but the Lions were very physical and sat our mob on their backsides a hell of a lot tonight. They rushed the line with some force and we did some good things but then made some mental errors due to pressure and poor execution.
My MOTM was O'Brien. A shout out to AWJ and Warburton, two players that I questioned when the team was selected, but both were excellent in these conditions. Itoje was good as was Faletau.
Well done to Farrell for making a couple of those difficult kicks in those conditions.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
My Facebook feed is full of crowing wallaby fans
When neutrals crow, just have to take that as a compliment.
It's either that or just go David Bain on the motherfuckers. -
Well, this has been interesting (but expected) reading. No surprise the knives are out for SBW. I think 3/4 of the refs involved wanted to go with a yellow but the Frenchie was always giving a red.
I don't think the Laumape play worked. We missed Kaino and at the crucial stages in the end Read was getting smashed which is frightening.
The winning penalty was utter bullshit, but we really should have been more points ahead by that stage.
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@ACT-Crusader O'Brien might be missing next week....
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Most concerning for me, even after the loss, is posters here somehow thinking the red for SBW was not deserved, or that it was somehow accidental? What the actual fuck? He intentionally lined up a guys head with his shoulder while the guy was being tackled - what on earth did he hope to get out of that?
Oh and - go away Cruden.
Awful consistency from the ref, but he's French, what do we expect?
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
My Facebook feed is full of crowing wallaby fans
Is @NTA one of them or is he boring people about his Powerwall?
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Have to say I hate the 'jump to take a pass/into a tackle' and agree the final penalty was bollocks. What is a tackler meant to do, step aside and let him through the line? It's entirely different to jumping to take a high ball.
I always thought from my playing days that jumping into a tackle was illegal, but I don't think I've ever seen it penalised in the pro game.
