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South Africa vs British and Irish Lions - Test 3
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<blockquote data-quote="Reiser99" data-source="post: 1053020" data-attributes="member: 72977"><p>That article left me feeling very confused because while I agree with many of the sentiments, it seemed to place the blame on the lions concept as a whole, the issues with covid and unrest in South Africa, rather than on Gatland. The way I read it, it seemed to say that it's mainly the boks fault for playing boring rugby and the Lions just fell into the trap of playing them at their own game or that poor readership was down to whether they won or lost, not the quality of rugby. Reality is, it was Gatland's choice who to pick and the tactics they employed. He chose to play the boks at their own game and it led to boring, terrible matches. </p><p></p><p>I do agree that the Lions tour has issues going forward, such as needing a coach to have a years sabbatical, more congested calendar and players needing more time off. Ultimately this tour will not have made any large number of new Lions fans and I imagine if you had data the number of lions fans would be down once you compare new fans to existing fans who have had enough.</p><p></p><p>For me the concept of the Lions is to gather the best players from Britain and Ireland and compete with 3 of the best (? loosely in terms of Australia) teams in the world. It's meant to be better than ordinary rugby. Instead its become a pathetic puff piece more focused on making money than providing entertainment. Yes they need to fund the tour, but if the tour exists just for the sake of financing it's own existence then it's lost it's purpose and we'd be better off spending the money on developing the game globally against T2, than just filling the coffers of the S.A, Australia and NZ.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reiser99, post: 1053020, member: 72977"] That article left me feeling very confused because while I agree with many of the sentiments, it seemed to place the blame on the lions concept as a whole, the issues with covid and unrest in South Africa, rather than on Gatland. The way I read it, it seemed to say that it's mainly the boks fault for playing boring rugby and the Lions just fell into the trap of playing them at their own game or that poor readership was down to whether they won or lost, not the quality of rugby. Reality is, it was Gatland's choice who to pick and the tactics they employed. He chose to play the boks at their own game and it led to boring, terrible matches. I do agree that the Lions tour has issues going forward, such as needing a coach to have a years sabbatical, more congested calendar and players needing more time off. Ultimately this tour will not have made any large number of new Lions fans and I imagine if you had data the number of lions fans would be down once you compare new fans to existing fans who have had enough. For me the concept of the Lions is to gather the best players from Britain and Ireland and compete with 3 of the best (? loosely in terms of Australia) teams in the world. It's meant to be better than ordinary rugby. Instead its become a pathetic puff piece more focused on making money than providing entertainment. Yes they need to fund the tour, but if the tour exists just for the sake of financing it's own existence then it's lost it's purpose and we'd be better off spending the money on developing the game globally against T2, than just filling the coffers of the S.A, Australia and NZ. [/QUOTE]
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