MATCH PREVIEW & THREAD: B&I Lions vs NZ Provincial Baa-Baas

Dog Botherer · 03-06-2017 9:17am

This Jager lad looks handy, wonder if he has an Irish granny...

Erik Shin · 03-06-2017 9:18am

Dog Botherer wrote: »

This Jager lad looks handy, wonder if he has an Irish granny...

He has a Dutch one

molloyjh · 03-06-2017 9:18am

Dear Stuart Barnes,

Dublin is not in the U.K.

Regards,
Ireland.

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:19am

sydthebeat wrote: »

Best of best of the Irish so far. Sinckler is decent in the loose

Everyone else pretty crap

Yeah he has been...but then Henderson and Sexton have been really off colour so the competition isn't strong. But one crooked throw aside he has done well.

Faletau and Te'o have been the two to stand out for me so far.

Are Watson and Seymour even playing?

BBDBB · 03-06-2017 9:20am

Del.Monte wrote: »

Getting the excuses in early?

Just saying what I'm seeing

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:20am

molloyjh wrote: »

Dear Stuart Barnes,

SHUT UP

Regards,
Ireland.

FYP

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:20am

molloyjh wrote: »

Dear Stuart Barnes,

Dublin is not in the U.K.

Regards,
Ireland.

Hahaha I thought the Irish internet would explode at that comment!

Dog Botherer · 03-06-2017 9:20am

Faletau, Sinckler, Te'o, Moriarty, all decent.

The rest, absolute muck.

leakyboots · 03-06-2017 9:21am

Faletau, Teo and Best going well. Henderson not great, couple of iffy moments from Sexton

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:21am

Better stuff from Henderson

LuckyGent88 · 03-06-2017 9:22am

Really impressed with Sinkler so far

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:22am

Sinckler hands.

Yeah talupe doing very well.

Like playing better when they play with some ambition

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:23am

Ah Sexton...

03-06-2017 9:25am

Missed the first half. Wow.

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:26am

Very worrying signs.

Glad I took under 63.5 and baabaas +35 before the game.

pickarooney · 03-06-2017 9:26am

Gardner must have been practising his Vogue dance for a week. Never seen so many held up tries.

Del.Monte · 03-06-2017 9:26am

Sexton has 10 minutes left?

crisco10 · 03-06-2017 9:27am

Lions finishing has been poor.

Hogg Joseph and at least one other held up. Then Warburton crossing penalty on the line.

That's 4 times to be on or near the line and no score.

Laidlaw is struggling. At one point he passed when there was a massive gap in front of him.

Dog Botherer · 03-06-2017 9:27am

I know it's the first game and all, but, yikes. Elite internationals up against a ragtag group of semi-pros.

testtech05 · 03-06-2017 9:29am

Falateu teo and best playing pretty well but pretty awful besides that. Few bad errors from Hogg and Sexton too!!

Royal Legend · 03-06-2017 9:29am

I have turned off the commentary on Sky and turned on RTE Radio and the radio is about 30 secs ahead of my stream and still its better

Tigerandahalf · 03-06-2017 9:30am

No injuries so far which is good. Despite the score some impressive performances from lesser squad players like Sinckler who has shown lovely hands and Moriarty who is getting over the gainline.

These guys are only off the plane 3 days.
Be interesting to see how the Lions' fitness levels cope with the pace that the super sides play at.

Clegg · 03-06-2017 9:30am

Sexton has been poor. When the passes are sticking he's putting men into space. But so many are going to ground before they make it to the receiver. Joseph has been crap as well. Not making his tackles.

swiwi_ · 03-06-2017 9:30am

Well, this is quite enjoyable actually, compared to the rabble of the Australian provincial sides in 2013, the NZ Baa-baas have some nice structure on attack and defence, albeit look a bit vulnerable out wide.

For the Lions, Sinckler and Teo have stood out (good) and Hogg (fairly awful).

But. How. Good. Has. The Baa-baas. Scrum. Been? Like a rock. Jager has made a couple of knock-ons round the field, but as a TH he can be mighty proud.

The Baa-Baas look like they are tiring, will need to roll out the subs.

wp_rathead · 03-06-2017 9:31am

testtech05 wrote: »

Falateu teo and best playing pretty well but pretty awful besides that. Few bad errors from Hogg and Sexton too!!

Moriarty and Sinckler playing very well too

ScrubsfanChris · 03-06-2017 9:31am

At least 3 tries left out on the field in that first half.

Sexton is playing his way out of a test start at this rate too.

Paul Smeenus · 03-06-2017 9:32am

Best good.
Henderson mixed bag.
Sexton will be lucky not to be put on the plane home.

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:32am

I love that hail mary from gatland... We don't see enough of that these days.

Dog Botherer · 03-06-2017 9:32am

Laidlaw needs to be hooked ASAP. Slows everything down to a crawl. Impossible to get anything going when the defence has 5 seconds to reset at every ruck.

Erik Shin · 03-06-2017 9:33am

Don't think anyone will play themselves into the test side today...but a few are looking to play themselves out of contention

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:33am

Clegg wrote: »

Sexton has been poor. When the passes are sticking he's putting men into space. But so many are going to ground before they make it to the receiver. Joseph has been crap as well. Not making his tackles.

Sexton has been poor but Laidlaw's passing is so slow. That doesn't excuse all Sexton's errors but it stopping the Lions getting momentum in attack. Maybe it's to be expected given most of the players haven't played together before.

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:33am

wp_rathead wrote: »

Moriarty and Sinckler playing very well too

Moriarty been strong but a bit headless to be honest.
Sexton put him through a good line but his link play is lacking.

swiwi_ · 03-06-2017 9:33am

Dog Botherer wrote: »

Laidlaw needs to be hooked ASAP. Slows everything down to a crawl. Impossible to get anything going when the defence has 5 seconds to reset at every ruck.

It's awful IMO. NZ teams play at speed. Now I'm not saying the Lions need to try and copy NZ rugby, there are different strengths, but he takes an absolute age to clear at times. Just allows less talented sides like the Baa-baas the time to re-organise.

awec · 03-06-2017 9:33am

Sexton has been poor but I don't think this game is really going to count for much regarding the tests, it's too early.

Laidlaw is poor but he's never getting near the tests anyway barring injury.

swiwi_ · 03-06-2017 9:34am

molloyjh wrote: »

Dear Stuart Barnes,

Dublin is not in the U.K.

Regards,
Ireland.

Are you not out doing the gardening molloy, or mowing the lawn?

Thought you had no interest in the Lions tour :P

The Lost Sheep · 03-06-2017 9:34am

Clegg wrote:

Sexton has been poor. When the passes are sticking he's putting men into space. But so many are going to ground before they make it to the receiver. Joseph has been crap as well. Not making his tackles.

sexton hasn't been fantastic but guys around him not helping him. Laidlaw terrible which isn't doing anything for us game.

swiwi_ · 03-06-2017 9:35am

sydthebeat wrote: »

I love that hail mary from gatland... We don't see enough of that these days.

I'm listening to commentary and they loved it too! "Old school" attacking bomb in the 22.

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:38am

swiwi_ wrote: »

I'm listening to commentary and they loved it too! "Old school" attacking bomb in the 22.

Your boys did well this morning

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:38am

awec wrote: »

Laidlaw is poor but he's never getting near the tests anyway barring injury.

Yeah but he is damaging the hopes of others. The media won't go to town on him because let's face it the Scots are pretty sensitive about the Lions at the moment but he just isn't giving his teammates a chance to get going. When you think of Gareth Davies and Richard Wigglesworth who aren't there...

.ak · 03-06-2017 9:39am

The good:

Sexton
T'eo
Sinckler
Faletau
Best

The rest have been poor, the Scots especially

Clegg · 03-06-2017 9:40am

Johnny with the customary knock.

sydthebeat · 03-06-2017 9:40am

.ak wrote: »

The good:

Sexton
T'eo
Sinckler
Faletau
Best

The rest have been poor, the Scots especially

Sexton has mixed good with very poor.

I wouldn't have him on that list

Dog Botherer · 03-06-2017 9:42am

Yeah Sexton has been far more bad than good.

Wee Greig knocks over a gimme.

.ak · 03-06-2017 9:42am

We had a 5 on 1 and picked and goed in the last few min of the 1st. Laidlaw needs to listen to his 10 more.

LuckyGent88 · 03-06-2017 9:42am

Some terrible passing from Johnnie

bilston · 03-06-2017 9:42am

.ak wrote: »

The good:

Sexton
T'eo
Sinckler
Faletau
Best

The rest have been poor, the Scots especially

Sexton?

wp_rathead · 03-06-2017 9:42am

.ak wrote: »

The good:

Sexton
T'eo
Sinckler
Faletau
Best

The rest have been poor, the Scots especially

Nah, Sexton hasn't been good for me in first half, not being helped by Laidlaw who seems to be in a different timezone

Warburton has been rather anonymous

.ak · 03-06-2017 9:43am

Aside from a missed penalty and missed cross field how has sexton been poor? Hes linking up well with teo and putting players thru space. Defending really well also. Think he's having a tidy game considering the ****e going on around him.

Erik Shin · 03-06-2017 9:44am

Think ak was just trying to see if everybody was paying attention when slipping in Sextons name

molloyjh · 03-06-2017 9:44am

swiwi_ wrote: »

molloyjh wrote: »

Dear Stuart Barnes,

Dublin is not in the U.K.

Regards,
Ireland.

Are you not out doing the gardening molloy, or mowing the lawn?

Thought you had no interest in the Lions tour :P

True to my word I didn't get up early to watch it. Had only just turned it on at that point.

MATCH PREVIEW & THREAD: B&I Lions vs NZ Provincial Baa-Baas

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