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ec18

Hi,

Just wondering has anyone ever gone on a lions tour with a package company?
or can recommend one?

Ec

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Stream keeps dropping - anyone have a reliable one ?

thomond2006

Itoje is a menace.

Clegg

Greenwood has big 'played rugby in Uni' energy.

Clegg

Don't think I've ever watched a rugby game where an ex referee has also been used as a real time pundit/commentator.

I know BT use Peter Walton during soccer games as their ex referee to discuss contentious refereeing decisions. But here the commentators are involving Owens in the general discussion of the game. Much better use of the referee as a commentator.

razorblunt

thomond2006 wrote: »

4 people on commentary is terrible.

They’ll end up at 17, one commentator, 15 players for each position and a referee.
If it ends up muting Heaslip and Greenwood, then all the better?

razorblunt

Nigel Owens accusing referees there of everything he was accused of, particularly in the latter part of his career.
Needs to read up on irony while he waits for his next question.

thomond2006

4 people on commentary is terrible.

Squidgy Black

thomond2006 wrote: »

This could be 60 or 70. BIL are destroying them.

Easily. In a completely different class here.

razorblunt

Conor McNamara on comms. Absolutely woeful, I know Miles Harrison is unwell but talk about falling upwards.
He’s constantly a few seconds behind the play, just now the Lions scored their 2nd try with zero fanfare.

Presumably the comms are sitting in the UK somewhere too. You can tell.

Just missed a brilliant kick to touch there because he was talking about try scorers at Murrayfield.

thomond2006

This could be 60 or 70. BIL are destroying them.

theVersatile

Christ LRZ has wheels.

Larbre34

Nigel Owens on the co-comm. Inspired!

sprucemoose

TRC10 wrote: »

Most likely looking at Daly at 13 v the Sharks then, seen as Harris is playing tomorrow.

daly at 13 and henshaw at 12 could be a tasty combination i have to say

mun1

Tomtom364 wrote: »

For those with Sky Tv.

Can now add Sky Sports on a 31 day rolling Contract for €20pm (for up to 6 months) no 12 month contract required.

Any link ? Not seeing offer on my sky package

sydthebeat

no harm in henshaw missing these two games.....

i think the team that starts against SA "A" will be closest to the starting team

TRC10

Most likely looking at Daly at 13 v the Sharks then, seen as Harris is playing tomorrow.

pickarooney

Clegg wrote: »

Henshaw is out of next Wednesday's game with a mild hamstring strain.

https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1410943139309891584?s=09

Jamie Roberts will be packing his bag

Tomtom364

For those with Sky Tv.

Can now add Sky Sports on a 31 day rolling Contract for €20pm (for up to 6 months) no 12 month contract required.

Clegg

Henshaw is out of next Wednesday's game with a mild hamstring strain.

https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1410943139309891584?s=09

yerrahbah

pickarooney wrote: »

Right, well that definitively answers any questions on whether injury kept James Ryan out of the Lions!

Its difficult to be certain, but originally I took it as the Lions needed someone who was fit straight away and had to play this W/E to get integrated with the squad

Beard isn't even on the bench for the Lions whereas Ryan is fit enough to start for Ireland.

I don't think Farrell would risk Ryan in a game like this unless he was 100%

IMO Ryan just isn't the type of lock that Gatland is looking for

Quin_Dub

pickarooney wrote: »

Right, well that definitively answers any questions on whether injury kept James Ryan out of the Lions!

Maybe that was the miracle recovery that Gatland was looking for!!

pickarooney

Right, well that definitively answers any questions on whether injury kept James Ryan out of the Lions!

aloooof

TRC10 wrote: »

Well the headline directly misquotes him in that case.

I took the quote on face value

Fair enough. I read it as 'miracle' being the only part of the headline that Gatland actually said, which turns out to be the case*. He doesn't even use the word "lead".

(*And even that was Gatland referencing what AWJ himself said he was hoping for).

irelandrover

TRC10 wrote: »

Well the headline directly misquotes him in that case.

I took the quote on face value

Surely picking Murray as captain, who isn't his club or country captain, shows the faith that Gatland has in his leadership abilities within this group.

Saying he hopes that the person he originally picked to lead the team can come back and lead the team doesn't undermine Murray IMO.

You also don't know what he actually said, or what question he was answering when he said it.

TRC10

aloooof wrote: »

Where to start with this.... maybe it might be an idea to be sure of the quote before you go leaping to conclusions??

Well the headline directly misquotes him in that case.

I took the quote on face value

aloooof

TRC10 wrote: »

The original captain was ruled out for the tour and Murray appointed captain.

The headline say's he wants him to "lead the team". I'm not sure if that's the exact quote, but talking to the press about how you want AWJ to come back and "lead the team" is surely a massive kick in the teeth to the new captain.

Of course he wishes AWJ can recover. But surely he should be telling the press that he's backing the new captain and has faith in him, not going on about how much he hopes the old captain makes a miraculous recovery and can lead the team. It's an odd one.

Where to start with this.... maybe it might be an idea to be sure of the quote before you go leaping to conclusions??

TRC10

irelandrover wrote: »

Saying that you want your original captain to recover in time to play is hardly saying he doesn't have faith in Murray.

The original captain was ruled out for the tour and Murray appointed captain.

The headline say's he wants him to "lead the team". I'm not sure if that's the exact quote, but talking to the press about how you want AWJ to come back and "lead the team" is surely a massive kick in the teeth to the new captain.

Of course he wishes AWJ can recover. But surely he should be telling the press that he's backing the new captain and has faith in him, not going on about how much he hopes the old captain makes a miraculous recovery and can lead the team. It's an odd one.

irelandrover

TRC10 wrote: »

Talking about how you hope someone else can lead out the team, isn't exactly showing faith in your current captain

Saying that you want your original captain to recover in time to play is hardly saying he doesn't have faith in Murray.

TRC10

Neil3030 wrote: »

Yes. Shame Twitter cropped the rest of the quote, where Gatland went on to admit the sole reason he wants AWJ back is his lack of faith in Conor Murray.

Talking about how you hope someone else can lead out the team, isn't exactly showing faith in your current captain

Squidgy Black

topdecko wrote: »

No way he can return from a dislocated shoulder for this tour...surely that is not possible. seems like clickbait from the Telegraph.

Not really in fairness to them here's the full quote:

"So he's kind of optimistic that a miracle may happen, and then he can get himself right. We're just going to assess it and see how the next couple of weeks goes in terms of that. I think the specialist said, when he had to look at it, that it wasn't quite as bad as he thought it would be.

“But not good enough, obviously, to come on tour to start with, and, and we needed a replacement otherwise we would have put too much pressure on him and the other second rows.

"We're going to monitor that and as we come towards the end of the tour, or if we pick up an injury and he's making amazing progress, something can happen - you never know. So it's kind of one of those just wait and see situations.”