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Lions 2013 Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

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  • #7232
    phog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,204 ✭✭✭✭phog


    jamiedav2011 wrote: »
    John Davies was verbally abused on here?!

    Really, where did you that thought from?


  • #7233
    Hagz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,257 ✭✭✭Hagz


    phog wrote: »
    Really, where did you that thought from?

    That's what you implied.


  • #7234
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    phog wrote: »
    Happened a bit here but not directly to the player I suppose.

    No abuse of players went on here that wasn't dealt with anyway.


  • #7235
    phog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,204 ✭✭✭✭phog


    Hagz wrote: »
    That's what you implied.

    No it wasn't or at least my reply was to what I thought was general comment from .ak

    .ak wrote: »
    No abuse of players went on here that wasn't dealt with anyway.

    not going arguing with a mod on this but imho I'd disagree on that. Though this site is probably one of the best in dealing with trolling/wuming.


  • #7236
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    .ak wrote: »
    No abuse of players went on here that wasn't dealt with anyway.

    How do you differentiate criticism and abuse?


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  • #7237
    jamiedav2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭jamiedav2011


    AK said:
    .ak wrote: »
    Idiots are everywhere, unfortunately.

    Really, abusing people over the internet over somebody else's selections... Bottom of the barrel stuff there.


    You made it specifc to this forum by saying:
    phog wrote: »
    Happened a bit here but not directly to the player I suppose.

    Or can you clarify what you meant by 'happened a bit here'?
    Or are you now going to be obtuse and say you were referring to another incident?

    So what did you mean by that, and can you give examples of this abuse?


  • #7238
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    First Up wrote: »
    How do you differentiate criticism and abuse?

    Very easily.


  • #7239
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    ... And we can drop the subject now. We have a zero tolerance policy on abuse towards any players or otherwise. If you think we've missed something then your welcome to PM us - but always report posts you may think break the charter.


  • #7240
    stpaddy99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭stpaddy99


    keith wood is still stoking up this ugly situation with his comments this week about gatland ruining the lions and its concept and the traditions
    woody is talking 24 carrot crap and every rugby fan knows it. He is also making us irish look like really bad sports which we are not. he should apologize and shut up.
    he is plain wrong. we smashed the aussies won the series and jon davies was superb and deserved his place.


  • #7241
    Hagz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,257 ✭✭✭Hagz


    What? You mean with these comments?
    "I was glad to see the Lions win at the end, absolutely.
    "And I thought it could have been a bit more exciting.
    "I thought there could have been a bit more flair, a bit more of a blend of the four teams.
    "Someone asked me earlier on: 'Was he [Gatland] vindicated?' I think [he was] vindicated to the point that Lions won a Test series.
    "But in some way I think the Lions lost a little bit in the summer because I didn't think it was a blend of four teams."
    "I've never said there were too many Welsh players on the team. That wasn't the point," said Wood.
    And he says O'Driscoll came out of the controversy "fantastically well".
    Wood added: "My view still is that the best option was to have him on the squad as a leader, as everything else in it.
    "The fact that he wasn't needed on the day doesn't actually change that view.
    "It's fantastic [that we won] and we did need to win and I argue against myself a little bit in relation to that."

    He's certainly not embarrassing me. Everything he says is logical and fair in my opinion.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/23771030


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  • #7242
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    We didn't smash the Aussies, the series could well have been over before the third test if Beale hadn't slipped taking the penalty at the end of the first test. In a way if that test had been 10mins longer they'd have won as they were getting very much on top towards the end of that game.

    Granted we won well in the third test and ran away in the second half of that game but it could well have been a different story.


  • #7243
    stpaddy99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭stpaddy99


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    We didn't smash the Aussies, the series could well have been over before the third test if Beale hadn't slipped taking the penalty at the end of the first test. In a way if that test had been 10mins longer they'd have won as they were getting very much on top towards the end of that game.

    Granted we won well in the third test and ran away in the second half of that game but it could well have been a different story.

    and if hapenny had kicked his it would have been over earlier?

    could have would have should have

    gatland is a winner , his record is phenomenal, he picked his team, he got hideous abuse from our fans for it, and the player who replaced BOD was threatened o be battered on the internet and twitter...yet gats was proven right. wood should shut his gob his comments are a disgrace


  • #7244
    Emperor1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Emperor1989


    stpaddy99 wrote: »
    keith wood is still stoking up this ugly situation with his comments this week about gatland ruining the lions and its concept and the traditions
    woody is talking 24 carrot crap and every rugby fan knows it. He is also making us irish look like really bad sports which we are not. he should apologize and shut up.
    he is plain wrong. we smashed the aussies won the series and jon davies was superb and deserved his place.

    Wood has been out of order. He has stoked the fires that allowed the plastic rugby lion fan express outrage. Never have I heard such vile abuse against the Lions well worse that Woodward in 05


  • #7245
    jamiedav2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭jamiedav2011


    stpaddy99 wrote: »
    and if hapenny had kicked his it would have been over earlier?

    could have would have should have

    gatland is a winner , his record is phenomenal, he picked his team, he got hideous abuse from our fans for it, and the player who replaced BOD was threatened o be battered on the internet and twitter...yet gats was proven right. wood should shut his gob his comments are a disgrace

    Funny, for someone complaining about hysteria...


  • #7246
    Hagz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,257 ✭✭✭Hagz


    stpaddy99 wrote: »
    and if hapenny had kicked his it would have been over earlier?

    could have would have should have

    gatland is a winner ,what? In the sense of the Lions. Yes. Wood doesn't disagree with this. his record is phenomenal I would not disagree with this, nor has Keith Wood he picked his team This is true, he got hideous abuse from our fans for it 1. Such abuse would have come from the corners of the internet we on here do not visit and such comments have nothing to do with Wood. 2. "our fans" is very generous of you. I would have gone with cretins, and the player who replaced BOD was threatened o be battered on the internet and twitter See previous point...yet gats was proven right. In the sense that he won yes, and I'm sure in most British eyes he is too. But to some, including me, his series victory does not justify his selection of Davies over BOD in mine, and Wood's opinion. wood should shut his gob his comments are a disgrace. No. They are not. The abuse thrown at Davies is disgraceful.

    .


  • #7247
    shootermacg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭shootermacg


    Manager picks the team. team wins the series.
    Disgruntled leinster fans spit dummy using pundits for backup.


  • #7248
    Hagz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,257 ✭✭✭Hagz


    shootermacg wrote: »
    Manager picks the team. team wins the series.
    Disgruntled leinster fans spit dummy using pundits for backup.

    I think you've got things muddled up there. More like:

    Manager picks team. team wins the series.

    Months pass and nobody cares about it anymore. Someone can't let sleeping dogs lie, and asks Wood if his opinion has changed, it hasn't. More people like st.paddy drag up old news and lambast Wood for not changing his opinion.

    Yawn.


  • #7249
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    I'd be more concerned if Wood changed his opinion post game. OR anyone else for that matter.


  • #7250
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Speaking of disgruntled Leinster fans and dragging up old arguments; POC should have been cited and never toured :pac:


  • #7251
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Grimebox wrote: »
    Speaking of disgruntled Leinster fans and dragging up old arguments; POC should have been cited and never toured :pac:

    No Grimebox, no! :mad:


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  • #7252
    Ugo Monye spacecraft experience
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭Ugo Monye spacecraft experience


    stpaddy99 wrote: »
    keith wood is still stoking up this ugly situation with his comments this week about gatland ruining the lions and its concept and the traditions
    woody is talking 24 carrot crap and every rugby fan knows it. He is also making us irish look like really bad sports which we are not. he should apologize and shut up.
    he is plain wrong. we smashed the aussies won the series and jon davies was superb and deserved his place.

    Garland played puke rugby for the vast majority of the tour season, it's time to move on from bod being oddly and unfairly scapegoated for the second test but wood has a point. I much preferred the 09 toir


  • #7253
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Yesterdays news at this stage. Time to move on.


  • #7254
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    I eagerly checked the thread, thinking some bright soul had started the Lions 2017 thread. Then I looked a bit closer...

    Old (ancient) news. Time to move on.


  • #7255
    Woody1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭Woody1997


    What are all the comments about **** and **** in the media recently referring to? Did they have a falling out or what? I know this isn't a lot to do with the lions but I couldn't think of anywhere else to ask.


  • #7256
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    That's a banned subject. Nothing to do with rugby.


  • #7257
    Woody1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭Woody1997


    .ak wrote: »
    That's a banned subject. Nothing to do with rugby.

    Sorry. Hadn't been on here in a while so didn't know.


  • #7258
    Woody1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭Woody1997


    Just found out what it was, feel stupid now!


  • #7259
    phog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,204 ✭✭✭✭phog


    Having seen some of the two games between the ABs and the Wallabies makes you wonder how the Lions Tour would have ended had it been to New Zealand, almost frightening really.


  • #7260
    Glass Prison 1214
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Glass Prison 1214


    Le vieux renard wrote: »
    I eagerly checked the thread, thinking some bright soul had started the Lions 2017 thread. Then I looked a bit closer...

    Old (ancient) news. Time to move on.

    Cheers mate http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056988494

    :D


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  • #7261
    Ugo Monye spacecraft experience
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭Ugo Monye spacecraft experience


    stpaddy99 wrote: »
    and if hapenny had kicked his it would have been over earlier?

    could have would have should have

    gatland is a winner , his record is phenomenal, he picked his team, he got hideous abuse from our fans for it, and the player who replaced BOD was threatened o be battered on the internet and twitter...yet gats was proven right. wood should shut his gob his comments are a disgrace

    This is hilariously hysterical

    Firstly, some of the abuse, as with most points of contention these days, was horrible, but the vast majority was reasoned, but of course it suits your agenda to imply that it was all lunatic threatening to assault Gatland

    Secondly, this notion that "he got the result" is balderdash, Gatland beat a poor Australian side in absolute disarray playing horrible rugby that was painful on the eyes. It has taken the shine off the Lions for me and others


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