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Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I wonder what the reaction in Gilette's advertising department was to North's ommission from the team.

A campaign of 30 second adverts showing George having a shave, looking moodily into the mirror, splashing his face with water and then going to sit in the stands to watch the match probably

Anyone have any suggestions for pubs in Dublin that'll be showing it? I think the Back Page in Phibsboro will be open for it, if anyone knows of any more, that'd be great.

Good team overall, mostly picked on form so far, which is what we want

Farrell the right call, his form has been consistently good for a long time now, better than Sextons, has loads of balls (all 3 fly halfs do), best defender, on par with game management

Sexton looked good the other day, its always hard to hard to judge on one off games as you can look good going forward but not when under the kosh, which they will be.

Same with Halfpenny, was excellent the last day, ignore the kicking, his kicking is not what it was, look back 4 years ago, he was splitting the post from the sideline. But his form up to the last game has been poor, for club and country, looked flat, tired, on form a great player

AWJ is the one stand out bad call, I can only assume experience was the selection call, has looked 41 not 31 all year.

Very surprised he hasn't gone with Warburton, its the right call

If Ireland can beat NZ so can this team. We have run them close a lot of times over the last 6 years, but get annihilated in Test series due to lack of strength in depth, injuries to key players, surely the Lions won't face this.

Scrum half is a worry, the step down from Murray/Webb is just massive, imagine Laidlaw on the bench for the second test. EEEEEEEP!!!

the.red.baron wrote: »

Same with Halfpenny, was excellent the last day, ignore the kicking, his kicking is not what it was, look back 4 years ago, he was splitting the post from the sideline.

I don't have a huge amount of love for Halfpenny as a full back but his kicking has been superb. He hasn't missed a kick on the tour yet. His conversion of Itoje's try was on the wrong side and a bit out to the side but his pressure kick against the Blues to put them in front with 10 minutes left from the 10m line out wide was superb.

At the same time the kicking of Farrell has been extremely dodgy on tour thus far. He deserves his spot but he has made it far closer a call than it should have been, I think.

awec wrote: »

Yea but it's on the northside so...

Even the blow ins are snobby.

Boards breakfast beers?
I'm thinking Square Ball.

Buer owes me a beer from all the emotional distress he's caused after his anti John Hayes comments.

errlloyd wrote: »

I was in square ball for a Leinster game recently - I won't say which.

The most annoying group of Leinster fans in history were behind us. Commenting / moaning / bitching about everything. We lost the game, but it was a cracker of a match.

Anyway. Unfairly I guess, it put me off square ball.

I wasn't there then. Whew.

Buer wrote: »

I don't have a huge amount of love for Halfpenny as a full back but his kicking has been superb. He hasn't missed a kick on the tour yet. His conversion of Itoje's try was on the wrong side and a bit out to the side but his pressure kick against the Blues to put them in front with 10 minutes left from the 10m line out wide was superb.

At the same time the kicking of Farrell has been extremely dodgy on tour thus far. He deserves his spot but he has made it far closer a call than it should have been, I think.

So far there haven't been too many testing kicks, no doubt a fine kick against the blues, but one most kickers would be expecting to get

How many has Farrell actually missed, can't remember any, including that one that did go over

The sign of a kicker who is on-song is splitting the posts (see 2013), so far all kickers have been slightly wayward, not much between any of them, certainly not enough to mean the 10 can't be used.

I'm sure any tries scored on Saturday won't be under the posts

the.red.baron wrote: »

So far there haven't been too many testing kicks, no doubt a fine kick against the blues, but one most kickers would be expecting to get

How many has Farrell actually missed, can't remember any, including that one that did go over

The sign of a kicker who is on-song is splitting the posts (see 2013), so far all kickers have been slightly wayward, not much between any of them, certainly not enough to mean the 10 can't be used.

I'm sure any tries scored on Saturday won't be under the posts

Lions tour so far

Farrell kicking stats are 5 successful from 8 (63%)
Halfpenny 11 from 11 (100%)

Think those stats speak for themselves dont you