World rugby have announced that their contingency plan for the Japan Scotland game was to move the game 500 miles north to another stadium.
However Typhoon hagibis is over 600miles in diameter.
Scottish Rugby have just announced that they would walk 500 more....
Instead I picked Ireland to win by more than 5 at 25/1.
€650!
Ok - I've watched the game twice now - without interruption.
All I've got to say is:
What the fuck was Henshaw playing at trying to hit Cane's shoulder/head with his head whilst pirouetting on the spot?
Can Zebo not run fast enough without being caught by some two-bit arm-swinging Kiwi winger?
Sexton's tackle is a penalty try all day, every day, and I'm glad there are some journalists in Ireland who actually agree with me
Tadgh Furlong. Tadgh fucking Furlong! Did you see him move and fend those three players in a row?
Paddy Jackson coming on the pitch is like being handed a Morris Minor in the middle of an F1 duel.
Beauden Barrett. Beauden fucking Barrett! If NZ had 14 other players like him, they'd be a pretty good team.
Why has Dane Coles turned into a hothead? And a snarly one at that?
van der Flier is The Business. Good luck Seanie.
How come NZ didn't play those two lock fellas in the Chicago game, yiz would have been much better?
How the holy, motherfucking fuck of a fuck did Ireland go from scoring 5 tries to 0 tries? To finish such a game with three fucking penalties, and turned down some kicks, is a shitballs return.
It may just be me, but I'm getting sick and tired of every player under the sun rushing in to obscure the view everytime there's an attempted maul over the line. You can't bloody see a thing. Either you're in the maul from the start, or else fuck off out of the way and stop trying to stick a hand into the mess afterwards whilst claiming that you stopped the ball single-handedly and making sure the camera can't see a damn thing.
Tackles? What tackles?
I demand a third test. Cancel the Frogs immediately and get your asses back to Dublin - tell the Wallabies to wait till we've finished.
I'm legitimately celebrating Ireland's win. The rest of yiz can go do one.
Cheers to everyone on here for all the congrats and good wishes.
Yiz are a decent bunch after all.
Well for today anyway.
@pukunui said in Hurricanes v B&I Lions:
Throwing the ball away after penalties, diving off their feet at rucks, living offside, not rolling away from the tackled player, spear tackling defenders at the ruck, pulling back players off the ball.
Plenty of examples.
In fairness, I think the Lions might have been guilty of one or two of those as well.....
Working this morning so missed the match.
It went as I predicted - congrats lads and all the best for the repeat.
@JC said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
The Walrus's take on it. Not much to argue with in general, but I didn't think Wyn Jones was all that good.
Alun Wyn Jones leads the charge as Lions stutter against Provincial Barbarians
Stephen Jones, Rugby Correspondent
June 3 2017, 12:01pm,
The TimesIn short, the Lions forwards were disappointing in Whangarei. Up against a scratch combination, their lack of headway at a succession of five-yard scrums was poor - and they could make no dents in the efficient home line-out. Perhaps oddly, amongst all the new Lions desperate to stand out, it was the three-tour veteran Alun Wyn Jones who was the best Lion up front.
The Osprey lock was powerful at the breakdown. He was deft with his handling and clearly played a strong leadership role during the breaks in play. On the day he outshone his partner Iain Henderson, who faded after a bright start. Wyn Jones was hit by injury in the domestic season, never quite finding his best form, and so missed what was once a fighting chance of leading this tour party. Yesterday, he re-established himself - and without him it could have been really gory.
The Lions probably did not want to go to their bench as early as they did, but there was a little more drive in the loose and power in the scrum when Mako Vunipola and Tadhg Furlong arrived. Both men had appeared in major club finals as recently as last Saturday - one of the many lunacies of the tour set-up and its fixture list.
Who else, on this admittedly scant evidence, advanced their cause? Probably those who did not start or even appear. Certainly, the sight of Maro Itoje starting on Wednesday against the Blues will give everyone a lift, although the display of Wyn Jones this morning means that not even Itoje will walk into the Test team.
No team ever won a Test series without a great pack. The Lions will be praying that true power was masked by tiredness and unfamiliarity, rather than indicating a worrying weakness. The excuses run out rapidly on a tour of New Zealand.
Hmm. Vunipola and Furlong were not in club finals last Saturday. Their teams both exited the previous week in the semifinals. Good to see Jones has his finger on the pulse of European rugby.
Well that went all right.
Wonder how the Dublin game will go?
Commiserations New Zealand. Great game.
Healy has recovered better than expected and was moving around of his own accord yesterday a couple of hours after the match. He can play both sides of the scrum, as can Bealham.
Henderson gone, so Beirne the obvious candidate to take the starting spot alongside Ryan.
Nous of O'Mahony to start means Conan moves to bench.
Out back, it's all-Leinster except for Earls who got in ahead of Larmour for the other wing spot.
Whilst this lot have played more recently than the mix n match side against Maoris, I don't see a win coming up. Unless Farrell has found something to get them re-charged to the level they were at last November - cos that's what's needed at minimum. Earls and Lowe are vulnerable to being skinned on the outside - could be very uncomfortable viewing by the time the half-time hooter blows.
Well that’s game over. Time for work. Congrats Māori. Not looking forward to Sat.
Lovely try from Māori. Ireland caught cold.
We don’t seem too intent on having the ball. Frawley’s kick off was not contestable.
And we’re giving out penalties like confetti.
Ireland having to make lots of tackles and playing mainly in their own half.
The number of caps in the forward pack has gone up from 17 to 147.
@Nepia said in Maori All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Match:
@Derm-McCrum said in Maori All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Match:
Can’t believe the behaviour of the NZ players shouting and roaring like that at the Irish team. Very disrespectful. Outrageous behaviour which must be punished strongly by World Rugby.
They sent Barnes down to ref, surely the punishment outweighs the offence.
Fair point.
Frawley getting unnecessarily bolshie
Can’t believe the behaviour of the NZ players shouting and roaring like that at the Irish team. Very disrespectful. Outrageous behaviour which must be punished strongly by World Rugby.