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[2013 EOYT] Tonga/Samoa/Fiji
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 598399" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>well that's the good thing about artificially assembled teams - like the B&I Lions, they're handpicked for every single position, and their bench alone is practically a better team than a regular national side. But the challenge is for them to mesh, because if not it would be downright cheating as they're facing a standard, "natural" national side, as good as it may be.</p><p></p><p>The Baabaa thing to me is the same. They're hand-picked, though not nearly as strong as the Lions of course, but hand-picked still - and the challenge is for them to be pro and smart enough to mix well and find chemistry in time for the big show.</p><p></p><p>Samoa should beat Georgia heftily, and I haven't seen Georgia play since the World Cup...but looking at all the good props we have from there in the Top 14 and the complete lack of quality backs whatsoever, it seems their strength will obviously be the scrum, and then possibly the breakdown (?)</p><p></p><p>and yeh the IRB totally fkd Samoa over this year..</p><p>it's amazing because at this time of the year last year, I was looking at the Nov. test list, and I was worried about Australia and Argentina coming over, as they'd been our cryptonite as of the past few years...and I was like "oh cool, and then we have a soft landing against Samoa...wtvr...."</p><p>and what happened is, although we won all 3 tests: we beat Australia really bad, put 40 on Argentina, and then had a much harder time against Samoa.</p><p>So I thought their calendar last year of going to Canada, and then doing Cardiff and then Paris was too much for them. They went 2 of 3, two of which weren't really close...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 598399, member: 57076"] well that's the good thing about artificially assembled teams - like the B&I Lions, they're handpicked for every single position, and their bench alone is practically a better team than a regular national side. But the challenge is for them to mesh, because if not it would be downright cheating as they're facing a standard, "natural" national side, as good as it may be. The Baabaa thing to me is the same. They're hand-picked, though not nearly as strong as the Lions of course, but hand-picked still - and the challenge is for them to be pro and smart enough to mix well and find chemistry in time for the big show. Samoa should beat Georgia heftily, and I haven't seen Georgia play since the World Cup...but looking at all the good props we have from there in the Top 14 and the complete lack of quality backs whatsoever, it seems their strength will obviously be the scrum, and then possibly the breakdown (?) and yeh the IRB totally fkd Samoa over this year.. it's amazing because at this time of the year last year, I was looking at the Nov. test list, and I was worried about Australia and Argentina coming over, as they'd been our cryptonite as of the past few years...and I was like "oh cool, and then we have a soft landing against Samoa...wtvr...." and what happened is, although we won all 3 tests: we beat Australia really bad, put 40 on Argentina, and then had a much harder time against Samoa. So I thought their calendar last year of going to Canada, and then doing Cardiff and then Paris was too much for them. They went 2 of 3, two of which weren't really close... [/QUOTE]
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