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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 271157"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBokke @ Jul 10 2009, 07:58 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=404598" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Gotta agree here. Some of the time 'Beast' was boring in, and ending up sideways when the scrum collapsed, but on others it was Vickery trying to do the same thing. The long and the short of it is that Vickery wasn't good enough that day to counter the tactics used by Mtawira (sp). Adam Jones showed that he could not only handle them, but bat them aside and demolish his opposite number. Vickery learn't some valuable lessons in that test and I was very happy to see him put in a fine performance in the third. The Lions management were to blame for not substituting Vickery earlier (not sure who's decision it would have been, McGeegan surely?). I was screaming at the screen for him to be replaced after the 15min mark!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 271157"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBokke @ Jul 10 2009, 07:58 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=404598']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Gotta agree here. Some of the time 'Beast' was boring in, and ending up sideways when the scrum collapsed, but on others it was Vickery trying to do the same thing. The long and the short of it is that Vickery wasn't good enough that day to counter the tactics used by Mtawira (sp). Adam Jones showed that he could not only handle them, but bat them aside and demolish his opposite number. Vickery learn't some valuable lessons in that test and I was very happy to see him put in a fine performance in the third. The Lions management were to blame for not substituting Vickery earlier (not sure who's decision it would have been, McGeegan surely?). I was screaming at the screen for him to be replaced after the 15min mark! [/QUOTE]
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