Lions vs Hurricanes

irishman86

Poite has been so biased in favour of Lions outside of his blocking move

CurryFlavoured

Very exciting half of rugby.

Buer

Great defending from the end. A few guys are advancing their claims for a test 23 spot.

North has woken up a little. The move to centre has allowed him get his hands on the ball a bit more which suits him. Nowell looking sharp again. Tipuric popping up everywhere and showed some beautiful hands too. I think Best is having a very good game, buried into rucks, slowing ball and being a real nuisance. Lawes and Henderson both showing up well and would rule out both of them being involved in the final two tests at some point.

Biggar is having a good game with some notable errors but that's the story of outhalves on this tour, really. Doing a solid job. Laidlaw is painful, intercept aside.

He won't be in with a sniff of a test 23 spot but Haskell is having a great game. Revelling in the confrontational elements of the game and the battle up front.

PhlegmyMoses

12 is where I reckon George North will end up later in his career. Dont remember ever watching him play there, so its interesting to watch.

Burkie1203

Buer wrote: »

Great defending from the end. A few guys are advancing their claims for a test 23 spot.

North has woken up a little. The move to centre has allowed him get his hands on the ball a bit more which suits him. Nowell looking sharp again. Tipuric popping up everywhere and showed some beautiful hands too. I think Best is having a very good game, buried into rucks, slowing ball and being a real nuisance. Lawes and Henderson both showing up well and would rule out both of them being involved in the final two tests at some point.

Biggar is having a good game with some notable errors but that's the story of outhalves on this tour, really. Doing a solid job. Laidlaw is painful, intercept aside.

He won't be in with a sniff of a test 23 spot but Haskell is having a great game. Revelling in the confrontational elements of the game and the battle up front.

This is one game were players hope to be hauled off after 50 minutes. Be interesting to see who gets subbed early.

Dickerty

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

12 is where I reckon George North will end up later in his career. Dont remember ever watching him play there, so its interesting to watch.

With his concussion history, you think he wants to play inside centre?
He should be at FB, use his pace to cover and attack, fewer tackles!

Webbs

Tipuric is one of those players you would love on your team but is just not Gatlands style so never going to play in the Tests

His tackling stats are off the chart never seems to miss, a real nuisance at breakdown but its his loose work that is so good, his hands and vision keep moves going that would stop with any other backrow player. I know in Ospreys they say he could easily slot in at centre for matches.

He's the most 'All Black' of the Lions players in his looking for offloads and gaps

OldRio

Best put in a hell of a first half. The man's a bloody nuisance to the opposition.

First Up

They are getting a bit carried away on Sky. Lions are on top but 14 soft points. If the Hurricanes can get on Poite's right side it could still be interesting.

PhlegmyMoses

Dickerty wrote: »

With his concussion history, you think he wants to play inside centre?
He should be at FB, use his pace to cover and attack, fewer tackles!

Fair point!

awec

Henderson is doing well, be interesting to see if he is taken off early.

BBDBB

That was a lovely bit of back play

irishman86

Boom

awec

Their 12 is some unit.

Buer

That is scum from the Hurricane player coming over to celebrate.

irishbucsfan

That was a daft tackle from Biggar

irishman86

Biggar milking it

davo2001

Great conversion!

krustydoyle

Ohh Dan hit a wall there

irishman86

irishbucsfan wrote: »

That was a daft tackle from Biggar

"tackle"

irishbucsfan

Buer wrote: »

That is scum from the Hurricane player coming over to celebrate.

I missed that, what happened?

CurryFlavoured

Beautiful try, he just ran over biggar when he had room to go wide.

Buer

Great try, the inside ball proving something the Lions struggle with. Game on now.

CurryFlavoured

Is Biggar concussed? He looked groggy.

Inspector Coptoor

irishman86 wrote: »

Biggar milking it

What is he milking exactly?

You could see his head snap back in the tackle. Could be concussed.

He put in a hit on a beast of a 12 and came off second best.
No shame in that.

krustydoyle

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

Is Biggar concussed? He looked groggy.

He looked fecked... very groggy

Buer

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I missed that, what happened?

Biggar tried to make the tackle, big contact and went down. He stayed down appearing to be dazed. Hurricanes player runs over him, leans down and shoves him in the chest as he steps over him.

Just a total d*ck move and I'm never going to be a fan of Dan Biggar.

EDIT: Just got a good replay, it wasn't a shove. My bad.

awec

Buer wrote: »

Biggar tried to make the tackle, big contact and went down. He stayed down appearing to be dazed. Hurricanes player runs over him, leans down and shoves him in the chest as he steps over him.

Just a total d*ck move and I'm never going to be a fan of Dan Biggar.

Think he just gave him a manly tap on the chest in a kind of "hard luck mate" type thing.

Inspector Coptoor

Buer wrote: »

Biggar tried to make the tackle, big contact and went down. He stayed down appearing to be dazed. Hurricanes player runs over him, leans down and shoves him in the chest as he steps over him.

Just a total d*ck move and I'm never going to be a fan of Dan Biggar.

Kiwis are all about the d1ck moves in order to win the "psychological battle"

irishbucsfan

Buer wrote: »

Biggar tried to make the tackle, big contact and went down. He stayed down appearing to be dazed. Hurricanes player runs over him, leans down and shoves him in the chest as he steps over him.

Just a total d*ck move and I'm never going to be a fan of Dan Biggar.

Yeah just saw it on the last replay there. Pathetic really

Buer

awec wrote: »

Think he just gave him a manly tap on the chest in a kind of "hard luck mate" type thing.

Yeah, just caught replay. In real time he leaned down and put the hand in. Looked far more inoccuous on replay.

irishman86

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

What is he milling exactly?

You could see his head snap back in the tackle. Could be concussed.

He put in a hit on a beast of a 12 and came off second best.
No shame in that.

Biggar always does this anytime he ****s up a tackle
He tried to smash the 12 barely using his hands and got made look like a fool

CurryFlavoured

To think NMS and Savea aren't in the current AB squad. They would stroll into any other starting 15 in the world.

BBDBB

Biggar doesn't look like he passed his hia

irishman86

Biggar is back what a shock, he makes footballers look hard

Buer

irishman86 wrote: »

Biggar always does this anytime he ****s up a tackle
He tried to smash the 12 barely using his hands and got made look like a fool

The guy was stood down with concussion only in the last couple of months. You're being completely over the top.

irishman86

Buer wrote: »

The guy was stood down with concussion only in the last couple of months. You're being completely over the top.

So! Are you saying Biggar doesnt milk every situation, incase you dont watch him often he loves a bit of simulation

CurryFlavoured

These lads don't like each other.

Del.Monte

A spicy affair.

BBDBB

Great in your face defence by Henderson for the charge down

leakyboots

Rory reminding the ref that the kicking tee is on

awec

Bring Hendo off now

connemara man

Like best there pointing out the tee was on the pitch. The ref mic is great

Buer

irishman86 wrote: »

So! Are you saying Biggar doesnt milk every situation, incase you dont watch him often he loves a bit of simulation

The bloke has a recent concussion issue and stayed down after a massive collision.

It's infantile stuff attacking him for it.

BBDBB

Pick an offence, any offence

Carded

krustydoyle

Id make a mug of coffee by the time Laidlaw recycles the ball

Think my money would still be on the 'Canes here tbh.

Buer

The ball had to go wide off first phase after the charge down. You could see the Hurricanes defenders screaming for numbers.

BBDBB

Henderson!

irishman86

Buer wrote: »

The bloke has a recent concussion issue and stayed down after a massive collision.

It's infantile stuff attacking him for it.

Pointing out a player with a history of faking it most likely is faking it, hardly attacking him