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2021 British & Irish Lions Tour
Warm Up Match 2: Blues v British & Irish Lions (Auckland)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs. Peter Quinn" data-source="post: 855226" data-attributes="member: 12190"><p>This isn't an accurate understanding of northern hemisphere rugby. All the six nations teams have exciting players who can score wonderful tries. You need to look at pro 12 winners the scarlets and premiership runners up Wasps to see the rugby that is being successfully played. And their is plenty of attacking talent in this lions squad. </p><p></p><p>The problem here is that loads of people from New Zealand are going to look at how the lions are playing and see it as confirmation of every stereotype of northern hemisphere rugby as turgid, slow, set-piece based. In truth, there's enough of that but it's overall a more rounded game, and the recent successes of both England and Ireland attest to teams adding facets to their game, being able to put pressure on up front but also score tries. The game that sealed Englands 3 - 0 series victory against Australia ended 44 - 40, some change from the multiples of 3 victory in the 2007 World Cup. The situation with the lions is different though, they are trying to forge a coherent team in short time and the baseline skills of the average player is not high enough to be playing basketball rugby right away. New Zealand are probably the only nation of players who could in theory be flung together from different clubs having not played together and ply successful expansive rugby within a week. For the purposes of this tour, I would agree to an extent that the lions need to ensure their traditional strengths remain as such, up front and in set-piece. But they need to score tries in their backline, and to be fair if you look back at 2013 the lions played some really good rugby.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs. Peter Quinn, post: 855226, member: 12190"] This isn't an accurate understanding of northern hemisphere rugby. All the six nations teams have exciting players who can score wonderful tries. You need to look at pro 12 winners the scarlets and premiership runners up Wasps to see the rugby that is being successfully played. And their is plenty of attacking talent in this lions squad. The problem here is that loads of people from New Zealand are going to look at how the lions are playing and see it as confirmation of every stereotype of northern hemisphere rugby as turgid, slow, set-piece based. In truth, there's enough of that but it's overall a more rounded game, and the recent successes of both England and Ireland attest to teams adding facets to their game, being able to put pressure on up front but also score tries. The game that sealed Englands 3 - 0 series victory against Australia ended 44 - 40, some change from the multiples of 3 victory in the 2007 World Cup. The situation with the lions is different though, they are trying to forge a coherent team in short time and the baseline skills of the average player is not high enough to be playing basketball rugby right away. New Zealand are probably the only nation of players who could in theory be flung together from different clubs having not played together and ply successful expansive rugby within a week. For the purposes of this tour, I would agree to an extent that the lions need to ensure their traditional strengths remain as such, up front and in set-piece. But they need to score tries in their backline, and to be fair if you look back at 2013 the lions played some really good rugby. [/QUOTE]
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