2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA
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@catogrande
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@derpus said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
What's with the Lions tours becoming so bad natured? Or has it always been this way.
Weirdly, it seems to be related to the success of the BIL teams and vice-versa. The more successful the team is, the more popular - '71 Lions, 2013, 1993 and to a lesser extent 2017. Crap teams like Woodwhinge's are at the other end of the likeability scale
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@catogrande said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
McGeechan the only outlier
Great guy and one of my top 5 coaches. Love the (poss. apocryphal) story about the '05 Lions management being booed as they walked into a hotel - except McGeechan who got a big round of applause.
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@stodders the two things that stick out are the stoppages and that incident where the s&c coach got told off in NZ2.
Townsend had a bit of wingh this week about his players being sledged from the sidelines by the SA support staff (though I think he missed the actual sledge - the comments were in Afrikaans and half his team understood what was said - call it a meta sledge).
It's all very class stuff.
If you win it's fine (see Aussie cricket circa 2003) but if lose or are just average you soon become Aussie cricket in 2018.
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@sidbarret said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:
@stodders the two things that stick out are the stoppages and that incident where the s&c coach got told off in NZ2.
Townsend had a bit of wingh this week about his players being sledged from the sidelines by the SA support staff (though I think he missed the actual sledge - the comments were in Afrikaans and half his team understood what was said - call it a meta sledge).
It's all very class stuff.
If you win it's fine (see Aussie cricket circa 2003) but if lose or are just average you soon become Aussie cricket in 2018.
See Haddin ODI CWC Final 2015... to quote: we won didn't we?
