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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 1036651" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Between all that, and relying on a red card and one of the biggest refereeing bottle jobs in recent history not to lose the last tour it's mad that he has this gig. </p><p></p><p>He's proven to be quite bitter in the past* and could get away with not picking Sexton and Farrell who never backed him up against SOB. You'd love to see the **** storm. </p><p></p><p>Even though I'm no fan of his I rate Gatland pretty highly but it'd more as a Jack Charlton type, he set up a good but not world beating Welsh side to be incredibly hard to beat and overachieved as a result. When given an abundance of world class talent as Lions HC he's done the bare minimum without being a hindrance like Woodward in 05. </p><p></p><p>I don't think he has much capacity to be biased this time around, he'd have to go out of his way to pick a Welsh player who doesn't deserve to be in the conversation and I don't see any Irish or English who really deserve to go that he'll leave out. Ringrose won't go, he's been the best 13 of the four nations since the last tour and probably should have gone on that one ahead of Payne but even as his biggest fan I don't think he absolutely deserves it, he's been poor in 2021, I'm sure I could think of a few similar English examples if I could stop thinking about Garry.</p><p></p><p>*was the cause of all the bad feeling Ireland and Wales have now which has been unfortunate</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 1036651, member: 45598"] Between all that, and relying on a red card and one of the biggest refereeing bottle jobs in recent history not to lose the last tour it's mad that he has this gig. He's proven to be quite bitter in the past* and could get away with not picking Sexton and Farrell who never backed him up against SOB. You'd love to see the **** storm. Even though I'm no fan of his I rate Gatland pretty highly but it'd more as a Jack Charlton type, he set up a good but not world beating Welsh side to be incredibly hard to beat and overachieved as a result. When given an abundance of world class talent as Lions HC he's done the bare minimum without being a hindrance like Woodward in 05. I don't think he has much capacity to be biased this time around, he'd have to go out of his way to pick a Welsh player who doesn't deserve to be in the conversation and I don't see any Irish or English who really deserve to go that he'll leave out. Ringrose won't go, he's been the best 13 of the four nations since the last tour and probably should have gone on that one ahead of Payne but even as his biggest fan I don't think he absolutely deserves it, he's been poor in 2021, I'm sure I could think of a few similar English examples if I could stop thinking about Garry. *was the cause of all the bad feeling Ireland and Wales have now which has been unfortunate [/QUOTE]
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