Lions Team Vs Aukland named

RuggieBear

From Aertel.ie

The Lions team has been named for
Tuesday's clash with Auckland in the
penultimate match of this season's
tour.

Four Irish players will start the match
with another two named in the
replacements.

Geordan Murphy, Gordon D'Arcy and
Dennis Hickie have all been selected in
the defence while Munsterman John Hayes
will be the sole Irishman in the Lions'
pack.

Ronan O'Gara and Shane Horgan will
start the game on the bench.

www.rte.ie/sport



FOUR IRISH IN 2/2
LIONS TEAM TO PLAY
AUCKLAND

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Lions team to play Auckland on Tuesday:

G Murphy
M Cueto
W Greenwood
G D'Arcy
D Hickie
C Hodgson
M Dawson
G Rowntree
G Bulloch
J Hayes
S Shaw
B Kay
J White
M Williams
M Owen

Replacements
A Titterrell
M Stevens
B Cockbain
M Corry
C Cusiter
R O'Gara
S Horgan

I've highlighted "the defense" as whoever rewrote this press release obviously knows nothing about rugby. I'm assuming that it was originally "backs". Muppets!

zAbbo

Was watching some random news there, and when Clive was asked about Jonny possibly being out of the next test, he said they had Charlie and Stephen Jones available.

So ROG has no chance at a test spot.

Not that it matters now

zAbbo

And its started, not a huge pile of interest in this one, gonna skip the 2nd half and head into work.

Lions have started well, and are 3-0 up thanks to a Charlie Podgson peno.

Anyone else think he looks like Dan Ackroyd

zAbbo

narrow win, 17-14, Williams getting the try, and ROG kicking the points after Hodgson went off after 20mins

a wins a win, right?

RuggieBear

lions played well in spurts....Referee is a complete tosser as per usual. How he didn't yellow card Auckland player for professional fouls and constant and consistent spoilin is beyond me.

ROG played well but missed tackles gallore. Darcy had his moments and got stamped on the head while he had hands in the ruck....should be a citing. Horgan looked ok too altho his passing was a bit rubbish

evil_seed

I missed the match. How badly was Hodgson injured? Will it give ROG a chance for the bench in the final test?

poobum

bazH wrote:

And its started, not a huge pile of interest in this one, gonna skip the 2nd half and head into work.

Lions have started well, and are 3-0 up thanks to a Charlie Podgson peno.

Anyone else think he looks like Dan Ackroyd

iv always thought that! i think they must be cousins or somthing!

Souless

evil_seed wrote:

I missed the match. How badly was Hodgson injured? Will it give ROG a chance for the bench in the final test?

Not sure dont think they have realeased anything on it yet. He went off with a sholder injury. He was helped off but wasnt strecherd off or anything.

Fearo

I was at the game, enjoyed it. Had a very drunken night afterwards. Met Brian O'Driscoll, Hector from TG4 and one of the chaps from Apres Match in a pub afterwards. You can see the pics here: http://www.fearo.com/znaln.html

RuggieBear

pictures are great fearo.....except the ones of the cheerleaders are a bit blury.

did you have shaky hands or something...?

Fearo

hahaha, yeah the cheerleaders were so hot!

Souless

Fearo wrote:

I was at the game, enjoyed it. Had a very drunken night afterwards. Met Brian O'Driscoll, Hector from TG4 and one of the chaps from Apres Match in a pub afterwards. You can see the pics here: http://www.fearo.com/znaln.html

Heh great pictures looked like you had a great laugh that night anyway