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Is it though? It's fair to say Morgan probably deserves it the most but 'abomination'? Come on now …
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He's a phenomenal player, but he looks absolutely bollocksed. Either fatigue from the season or his hip is in bits again, take your pick, but he's not performing well.
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Curry had an excellent season. But he’s not looked up to that kind of level yet on tour.
Of course he might just be a Test Match Animal
but he’s also come back from a career threatening injury, so part of me wonders if the time lost to that, the sheer volume of tough rehab or the injury itself have caught up with him a little. Also due to have wrist surgery post tour.
Of course he might just be a Test Match Animal
but he’s also come back from a career threatening injury, so part of me wonders if the time lost to that, the sheer volume of tough rehab or the injury itself have caught up with him a little. Also due to have wrist surgery post tour.
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From my vantage point VdF is comfortably established as better than Curry. But we're not on here to agree with each other!
We won't agree which is fair, it's a Lions tour after all. However sure you think VDF is better I think its Curry we could end it here but your saying VDF is comfortably established as being better your taking it past your opinion here, he just isn't it.
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Curry and VDF are both great. Splitting hairs with which one is better.
At least we can all agree they are both better than Morgan.
At least we can all agree they are both better than Morgan.
It's pay back for the years of making everyone put up with Alun Wyn Jones.
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Don't lie you miss watching him standing by a ruck waving his arms around doing absolutely **** all. Can't rage at the current locks
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Wouldnt it be better if the Lions coach was not allowed to be the current coach of an international team? That would ensure his selection was more objective.
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Him waving his arms wasn't doing **** all, that was him channeling his ref powers.
It's an ancient form of magic known only to a few.
He's injured anyway
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If you're on a train to Scotland, you're never going the wrong way
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I don't disagree that current coaches shouldn't be involved, no one wins there (although they're generally the only ones who can get a clause in their contracts to allow it).
Is there massive bias here though. It looks like representation will be exactly in order of current world rankings where there's currently a sizeable gap from 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 and a cushion between 1 and 2. Form is great, consistent success at international level is better.
That was Gatland four years ago, and look where that got us.
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If you take coaching styles aside, realistically most the wider squad pick themselves regardless of coach, and I’d probably say 60-70% of the test team would too.
The only areas of real contention in the last few tours are the fringe players picked to back up the mid week team at the end and that won’t really have an impact on the overall series result.
I can’t believe I’m saying this about a Lions Test Match but i just feel so flat about the game at the weekend. Normally in test week on a Lions tour I’d be rewatching all the classic moments from tours gone by and reading as much build-up as I could but this time?. I’m ambivalent about it tbh. This tour has felt flat and mediocre from the start. I don’t think the Lions have been great so far and yet I still fully expect us to win the test series. I don’t think beating this Wallabies team should be thought of as an outstanding achievement. We’ve got the best of 4 nations to pick from and, as good a coach as Joe Schmidt is, they are 8th in the World for a reason. This tour has basically been a lot of uninspiring warm-up matches to get to a test series which, if the Lions play to their potential, should be done after 2 test matches.
Purely from a rugby perspective, I’m much more hyped about the NZ/SA game at Eden Park than I am about the Lions.
Purely from a rugby perspective, I’m much more hyped about the NZ/SA game at Eden Park than I am about the Lions.
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Lions should have a rule where only 10 players can play in more than 1 test. That way everyone gets a chance and the series is more competitive
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