3rd test - Australia v British & Irish Lions

[Reiser99]

Mitchell's on,
I imagine Aki will go to backrow, Jones back to centre and Mitchell to wing (or JGP to wing)

For who? I thought Sheehan came on for Kelleher for the scrum and Curry went off to keep it at 14.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Wobblies just want it more this test.

 

[dirty harry]

For who? I thought Sheehan came on for Kelleher for the scrum and Curry went off to keep it at 14.

JGP

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Is anyone shocked at this result?

Only the straw men you're arguing with!

 

[Dean Cooperfield-West]

Farrell has made errors with his bench tonight.

One of Farrell's biggest errors was not starting VDF and Morgan together in a test. Also picking Aki is hilarious given his lack of form

 

[Grizwald]

I don’t think the Irish core are the issue though - the vast majority deserved to be in the squad. Plus loads of recent lions coaches have done the same. It’s been the utterly shambolic selection policy throughout.

Where exactly though? Curry and Berine were contentious in the first test but both showed up. Ringrose got concusion, Tuipolotu a ****le.

Its the players on the pitch that have lost this convincingly tonight.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

For who? I thought Sheehan came on for Kelleher for the scrum and Curry went off to keep it at 14.

Ah, my mistake - I thought curry was a full sub not because of the yellow

 

[dirty harry]

Lineout has absolutely vanished 3 seconds when Itoje left the field...

Player of the tour confirmed.

 

[Which Tyler]

They're kinda both right there.
AUD played as if they had advantage, but ref hadn't blown his whistle.

All just unsatisfying

 

[HenryChinaski]

Is anyone shocked at this result? The Lions were terrible in test 1. Nearly lost test 2 and won by a 50:50 call. And now a largely unchanged team is losing test 3. The 23 is an awful 23!

This is a really bad take imo but no I’m not shocked

 

[Jimbo]

They're kinda both right there.
AUD played as if they had advantage, but ref hadn't blown his whistle.

All just unsatisfying

Refs are human it's really rather irrelevant to the context of the game and what immediately followed.

 

[Which Tyler]

Yup

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Sums it up from the Lions.

 

[dirty harry]

It feels like the luons were selected wrong for test 3, and set up poorly pre match and just never got in the game.

I think Schmidt has outplayed Farrell in test 2 and 3

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Ooof, could be red

Definitely off field review

 

[Bada-Bing!]

High tackle.

 

[Reiser99]

From my listening Australia have been better in pretty much every department.

 

[Which Tyler]

If that's a pen, then you take Suali'i out of the equation, and penalty try?

 

[Scotty]

2 high tackles and taken out without the ball...3 yellow cards i think.

 

[Jimbo]

From my listening Australia have been better in pretty much every department.

I can’t disagree in anyway as has been pointed out, literally to a man.