B&I Lions 2017

Crucial

@gollum said in B&I Lions 2017:

@Crucial

Not sure I buy thats 100% true, Kaino & Whitelock hit literally every single ruck, neither of then ever acts as a 1st five the way Brodie does. the only guy I can think of who does something similar is Faumaina when he comes on as a sub, they use him that way a lot.

Its more if Brodie is buried we just play a completely different move, running Savea in off Barret for example. We dont really run the same play with a different guy.

Probably didn't explain clearly. What I'm saying is that it is difficult to draw BBBR away from that move when he wants to be there because we ensure someone else is doing the grunt for him. When he needs to be there they aren't looking to use him midfield anyway.
It was more the thought that you could tire him out. They obviously don't realise that Phar Laps heart was stolen from the Museum of Australia and transplanted into him.

Disgusted of TW

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

@antipodean said in B&I Lions 2017:

Home Nations fans should save their angst for Wednesday's announcement. There'll be enough there for some misplaced, righteous indignation.

I'm not a Home Nations fan, so I'm getting my two cents worth in now. Although, I do love the smell of righteous English indignation in the morning

Que sera sera. There will be several cointoss calls either way, and I wouldn't like to be the one to make them.

No indignation from English fans 're Lions is ever likely to come close to eclipsing the enraged and self-entitled (is that a word?) grief of some Irish fans at The 3rd Test Dropping Of St Brian...

Derm McCrum

@Disgusted-of-TW said in B&I Lions 2017:

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

@antipodean said in B&I Lions 2017:

Home Nations fans should save their angst for Wednesday's announcement. There'll be enough there for some misplaced, righteous indignation.

I'm not a Home Nations fan, so I'm getting my two cents worth in now. Although, I do love the smell of righteous English indignation in the morning

Que sera sera. There will be several cointoss calls either way, and I wouldn't like to be the one to make them.

No indignation from English fans 're Lions is ever likely to come close to eclipsing the enraged and self-entitled (is that a word?) grief of some Irish fans at The 3rd Test Dropping Of St Brian...

Oh that is a word and very apt too for the de-canonisation of BOD incident. Although some of the foaming in last 24 hours at the suggested/leaked dropping of St. Joseph from the squad is causing some merriment. Methinks that Gatland hasn't finished yet - tomorrow's announcement will hopefully include some other apoplectic moments e.g. inclusion of Roberts/Davies/Charteris/Ashton/Earls/etc and to crown it all, naming Dylan Hartley as tour captain after all.

SimonAdd_2

I'm telling you, by tomorrow lunchtime you'll all be wishing for my Warburton-less squad above.

I heard from Austin Healey that Chris Ashton and Alex Goode are shoo-ins.

Disgusted of TW

@SimonAdd_2 said in B&I Lions 2017:

I'm telling you, by tomorrow lunchtime you'll all be wishing for my Warburton-less squad above.

I heard from Austin Healey that Chris Ashton and Alex Goode are shoo-ins.

Nooooooooo!

I hope that if that does play out I will find myself able to say that compared to the prospect of nuclear exchanges on the Korean peninsula the idea of Alex Goode in a Lions shirt is nothing to get agitated about. (I'll let you know how that goes)

Bovidae

@Sapetyvi Ben Te'o ahead of Joseph it appears.

Disgusted of TW

Given the inevitable injuries, anyone care to guess who will get broken and sent home? My predictions so far are Halfpenny (head wrong side in the tackle, as always) and Warburton (aggravation of the knee injury). Warburton to be replaced by Haskell or Robshaw, not sure about Halfpenny. OK, the mists are closing in again - cross my palm with silver or get out of my tent.

Bovidae

@Disgusted-of-TW Sexton, of course.

Derm McCrum

The likely squad to be announced today:

B3s: Hogg, Halfpenny, North, Nowell, Watson, Williams, Earls
Mids: Daly, Henshaw, Teo, Davies, Roberts
Flys: Sexton, Farrell, Biggar
SH: Murray, Youngs, Webb
Props: Marler, Vunipola, McGrath, Furlong, Sinckler, Cole
Hooks: Best, Owens, George
2nd Rows: Itoje, Kruis, Lawes, Wyn Jones, Ryan, Henderson
Flanks: O’Brien, O’Mahony, Stander, Warburton (capt) , Tipuric
8 Men: Vunipola, Faletau

Crew of 40. Earls to make it once again - kudos if he goes.

All Welsh back 3 option

English, Welsh and Irish combos available on the 9/10/12/13 axis

Full Irish and Full English front row options

Full English locks and a Welshman for the test side, Henderson and Ryan for midweek

Full Welsh back row option and potentially full Irish back row option for a midweek game.

28 British and 12 Irish Lions. Seems like a good mix.

Roll on the series.

Frye · English, Welsh and Irish combos available on the 9/10/12/13 axis

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

Crew of 40. Earls to make it once again - kudos if he goes..

What an indictment if he gets selected. Really ruins the enjoyment of winning.

Derm McCrum

@Frye said in B&I Lions 2017:

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

Crew of 40. Earls to make it once again - kudos if he goes..

What an indictment if he gets selected. Really ruins the enjoyment of winning.

Err.... que?

MN5 · English, Welsh and Irish combos available on the 9/10/12/13 axis

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

The likely squad to be announced today:

B3s: Hogg, Halfpenny, North, Nowell, Watson, Williams, Earls
Mids: Daly, Henshaw, Teo, Davies, Roberts
Flys: Sexton, Farrell, Biggar
SH: Murray, Youngs, Webb
Props: Marler, Vunipola, McGrath, Furlong, Sinckler, Cole
Hooks: Best, Owens, George
2nd Rows: Itoje, Kruis, Lawes, Wyn Jones, Ryan, Henderson
Flanks: O’Brien, O’Mahony, Stander, Warburton (capt) , Tipuric
8 Men: Vunipola, Faletau

Crew of 40. Earls to make it once again - kudos if he goes.

All Welsh back 3 option

English, Welsh and Irish combos available on the 9/10/12/13 axis

Full Irish and Full English front row options

Full English locks and a Welshman for the test side, Henderson and Ryan for midweek

Full Welsh back row option and potentially full Irish back row option for a midweek game.

28 British and 12 Irish Lions. Seems like a good mix.

Roll on the series.

One Scot? Seriously?

taniwharugby · English, Welsh and Irish combos available on the 9/10/12/13 axis

@MN5 Should there be none?

antipodean

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

@Frye said in B&I Lions 2017:

@Pot-Hale said in B&I Lions 2017:

Crew of 40. Earls to make it once again - kudos if he goes..

What an indictment if he gets selected. Really ruins the enjoyment of winning.

Err.... que?

Here are some highlights of his defence:

https://i.imgur.com/edL4E8o.gifv

https://i.imgur.com/zcfTM7D.gifv

Previous Lions work:

He's a donkey. That he's been capped is baffling.

MN5

@taniwharugby said in B&I Lions 2017:

@MN5 Should there be none?

That's very good from you

But they actually won three games this 6N. They're still partying in the streets of ( insert Scottish town name here )

Margin_Walker

Earls did come off as a massive prick in the business with Fraser Brown last year, even with the mitigation of the Foley situation. Would be a surprise to see him tour on form alone though, but we'll see.

SimonAdd_2

Earls is crap. Shouldn't be near the squad. I'd have any of the Scottish wingers above him.

MN5

@SimonAdd_2 said in B&I Lions 2017:

Earls is crap. Shouldn't be near the squad. I'd have any of the Scottish wingers above him.

Sean Lamont is probably due a swansong. He'll be thrilled to hear this.

Tregaskis

@KiwiMurph Loving how they show fans sitting on the grass. I'm sure they will be doing the same in 2017 for a night game IN THE MIDDLE OF JUNE.

Crucial

@SimonAdd_2 said in B&I Lions 2017:

Earls is crap. Shouldn't be near the squad. I'd have any of the Scottish wingers above him.

If Earls can supply more viewing highlights like that awesome fend off by Hosea Gear then he should be a locked in pick.
That was awesome.

The Silver Fern

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