2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA
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Great to see Bundee fulfilling his childhood dream.
Has anyone actually seen SA sides post recently. I haven’t checked in on the “rainbow” cup yet. Makes a change with a bit of mystery about the SA players.
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Great to see Bundee fulfilling his childhood dream.
Has anyone actually seen SA sides post recently. I haven’t checked in on the “rainbow” cup yet. Makes a change with a bit of mystery about the SA players.
@billy-tell Keo had been putting out article after article about how the Boks are going to smash the Lions, so I guess SA think they're doing alright!
Some left field selections there, O'aki -Wtf? He's no Tualagi stand in. Sinkler out cos he's such a twat, and they'll be in a bubble of just them for two months. Same as Marler. Maybe Gats and co experience of their personalities had more of an effect than normal because of this. Might have effected the national make up too, very balanced, less complaining about that.
Scotland more players in this than the last three together, probably!
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@billy-tell Keo had been putting out article after article about how the Boks are going to smash the Lions, so I guess SA think they're doing alright!
Some left field selections there, O'aki -Wtf? He's no Tualagi stand in. Sinkler out cos he's such a twat, and they'll be in a bubble of just them for two months. Same as Marler. Maybe Gats and co experience of their personalities had more of an effect than normal because of this. Might have effected the national make up too, very balanced, less complaining about that.
Scotland more players in this than the last three together, probably!
@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Scotland more players in this than the last three together, probably!
the most balanced Lions side I can remember. It's not a national side with extras like some years
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Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
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@billy-tell Keo had been putting out article after article about how the Boks are going to smash the Lions, so I guess SA think they're doing alright!
Some left field selections there, O'aki -Wtf? He's no Tualagi stand in. Sinkler out cos he's such a twat, and they'll be in a bubble of just them for two months. Same as Marler. Maybe Gats and co experience of their personalities had more of an effect than normal because of this. Might have effected the national make up too, very balanced, less complaining about that.
Scotland more players in this than the last three together, probably!
@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Maybe Gats and co experience of their personalities had more of an effect than normal because of this. Might have effected the national make up too, very balanced, less complaining about that.
Yeah, the feature that stands out to me. Maybe the test XV is not so predictable either.
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They're gonna get totally smashed, rainbow charged world champions with almost two years of dry powder will do them in
https://www.keo.co.za/lions-lack-roar-for-south-african-adventure/
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@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Also surprised that there was no place for Josh Nadivi.
Injured at mo.
@pakman
Navidi has been declared fit, so it's a surprise that he's not there. He is world class.But in his time with Wales, Gats never seemed to rate him quite as highly as most observers (no idea why). And back row is a very strong area at the moment, so there were always going to be some very good players missing the cut.
I'm not that surprised by Sinkler missing out. Character is such an important element for such an intense tour, and I'm guessing they thought he wasn't the right fit for that reason.
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@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
@mikethesnow said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
Both. Ability to cover multiple positions must be a huge advantage for selection in a squad like this.
Agree that the squad as a whole looks unimaginative. Think we're in for a pretty physical and unadventurous game plan from the Lions.
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@mikethesnow said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
Both. Ability to cover multiple positions must be a huge advantage for selection in a squad like this.
Agree that the squad as a whole looks unimaginative. Think we're in for a pretty physical and unadventurous game plan from the Lions.
@gibbonrib said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
@mikethesnow said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
Both. Ability to cover multiple positions must be a huge advantage for selection in a squad like this.
Agree that the squad as a whole looks unimaginative. Think we're in for a pretty physical and unadventurous game plan from the Lions.
Thankfully the Boks will bring the excitement, like in their RWC campaign
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@bones said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Discuss.
https://twitter.com/lionsofficial/status/1390270318103736320?s=19
The 1st test in 2017 obviously wasn't played, nor the games against the Highlanders and Blues.
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@bones said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Discuss.
https://twitter.com/lionsofficial/status/1390270318103736320?s=19
The 1st test in 2017 obviously wasn't played, nor the games against the Highlanders and Blues.
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@bones said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Discuss.
https://twitter.com/lionsofficial/status/1390270318103736320?s=19
- Seems odd to have missed out 1971
- My memory must be fading but I'm not sure the 2013 and 2017 were unbeaten but I'm happy to go with that bit of history being re-written.
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@bovidae said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Hill and Henderson over Ryan surprised me.
Yes to both.
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@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
@mikethesnow said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
Two main surprises to me are no Underhill and no Sinkler. Gatland is right to leave out Billy Vunipola and Jonny Sexton. Think his midfield looks a bit one-dimensional.
Is Farrell a 10 or 12 in this?
Given that the rest of the midfield has a wish, bash, bosh look to it I'd assume Farrell is going as a 10 and then Gatland will eventually play him at 12 to give the midfield a different point.
