Lions tour to Australia

FNP knocked us about in the collisions. With a bit more organization they could have won that. Osbourne was as good as any Lion which ain’t saying much.

Yeah, it's very possible. I don't think there's a wrong answer between Ringrose or Jones, or Aki vs Tuipolotu for that matter, but I think Tuipolotu did enough to keep his spot.

Rewatched the test game last night… Take outs… Keenan had a very solid game even the try conceded was excellent kick and take by Aussies… Lowe had a very good game except for the kick over dead and failing to score try with people outside (this was under a penalty and BIL scored two min later). McCarthy and Conan were excellent, huge work rate. Tom Curry had very high work rate but gave away two crucial penalties, one close to yellow. Majrio was missing from the games for long enough periods.. Genge and Porter gave up one scrum penalty each, scrum is going to be tough on Saturday…

The Scottish centres don’t pass generally. Sione is better than Jones but Jones is pretty terrible… I think he passed to 3-4 people all day… One bounced of the ground before Keenan picked up… He butchered a try opportunity in the first half with Gibson inside hime and failed to give it to Keenan outside him in very start of 2nd half. Jones had a really bad first half and generally just tackled well… Bundee saved a try (locking on the ball after Earls illegal trip) and and started to pass…

Freeman had a bad day, I say he struggled when he got a such a lack of ball… Must been very frustrated, great player that needs to be brought into the game more… Beirne was huge, best player on the park, the f*cker would rob his granny for a fiver…

I think the only changes Farrell makes to the starting 15 will be injury enforced ones. Continuity of selection is very important in team sports and it's something Farrell has based his successes with Ireland upon.

Ringrose has performed better than Jones across this tour, but once he was ruled out of the first test I think it made his chances of being selected to start the second test incredibly slim. Might well get the 23 jersey however.

British and Irish Lions: 15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Tommy Freeman, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 James Lowe, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park; 1 Andrew Porter, 2 Dan Sheehan, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 4 Maro Itoje (c), 5 Ollie Chessum, 6 Tadhg Beirne, 7 Tom Curry, 8 Jack Conan.

Replacements: 16 Ronan Kelleher, 17 Ellis Genge, 18 Will Stuart, 19 James Ryan, 20 Jac Morgan, 21 Alex Mitchell, 22 Owen Farrell, 23 Blair Kinghorn.

Ringrose had been selected but withdrew himself due to concussion symptoms.
Absolutely gutted for him.

Ringrose also self reported his concussion symptoms before the first test too. Have to imagine that's his tour over.

Gutted but also pretty admirable. Can't imagine how difficult that would be to call.

Ryan is very lucky, Cummings had outperformed him on tour

Kelleher lucky as well, George is better at set pieces

Lucky it probably won't matter as Oz are so mediocre

Looks like a better Aus team but I can't believe they've gone with those halfbacks again.

I think the Porter/Genge switch is because Genge has been good and the bench wasn't last week - he'll give more leadership later in the game.

Worried about Aki/Jones. They haven't looked on a wavelength. And Aki isn't really an 80 minute man these days.

Should still win, and should be a better test match with Valentini and Skelton back.