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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 265088"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ May 31 2009, 09:53 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=398479" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>well Sheridan certainly isn't up for a test spot but I wasn't questioning that either wouldn't be up for the challenge more the fact that the challenge shouldn't be posed on such a short tour.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I think Sheridan is up for a test spot as he did the job that he was required to do. Wasn't his fault that Earls were there like a deer in the headlights and Rees couldn't hit HMS Belfast with a beach ball. He was robust in the scrum and good in the loose, what more do you want him to do? </p><p></p><p>Also, to be brutally honest, if challenges like that shouldn't be posed on such a short tour then the tour itself shouldn't even be going ahead owing to the (traditional) lack of preparation that the Lions have had in the run up. I mean, what time have they <em>all</em> honestly had together? You can't apply logic to a tour that it in itself a highly emotional (and thus illogical) event. </p><p></p><p>They haven't had time to work out combinations or teams. The games against the provincial and S14 sides are a chance to hammer out those combinations and if you're going to take 30 players but leave certain players out specifically for the tests then we'll be going down the same road that Sir Clive went down in 2005. Use em' all, see what works and then take that into the test series.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 265088"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ May 31 2009, 09:53 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=398479']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> well Sheridan certainly isn't up for a test spot but I wasn't questioning that either wouldn't be up for the challenge more the fact that the challenge shouldn't be posed on such a short tour. [/b][/quote] I think Sheridan is up for a test spot as he did the job that he was required to do. Wasn't his fault that Earls were there like a deer in the headlights and Rees couldn't hit HMS Belfast with a beach ball. He was robust in the scrum and good in the loose, what more do you want him to do? Also, to be brutally honest, if challenges like that shouldn't be posed on such a short tour then the tour itself shouldn't even be going ahead owing to the (traditional) lack of preparation that the Lions have had in the run up. I mean, what time have they [i]all[/i] honestly had together? You can't apply logic to a tour that it in itself a highly emotional (and thus illogical) event. They haven't had time to work out combinations or teams. The games against the provincial and S14 sides are a chance to hammer out those combinations and if you're going to take 30 players but leave certain players out specifically for the tests then we'll be going down the same road that Sir Clive went down in 2005. Use em' all, see what works and then take that into the test series. [/QUOTE]
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