Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions
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Two tennets of rugby shone through today
1 The ball will always travel faster than the man
On the plus side, the Lions have kicked deep and chased well.
Unfortunately we can't put men in space by letting the ball do the work2 You can't play without the ball
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@Crash said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
Fuck the ABs better have a plan for getting some decent ball and keeping it away from the Lions pack
I expect catching the ball will go a long way to achieving that
@taniwharugby said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
@Crash said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
Fuck the ABs better have a plan for getting some decent ball and keeping it away from the Lions pack
I expect catching the ball will go a long way to achieving that
Exactly.
Sure the Lions have played relatively error free, strangling rugby, it's nothing the ABs can't deal with.
The Maori having great big tits for hands doesn't make the Lions any more of a threat than they were before this game. -
What surprises me most is that the coaches waited so long to make changes. I'd have taken Dmac off much sooner (or make the moves I suggested earlier).
@Stargazer Yep. Big matches are all about communication and combinations.
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What surprises me most is that the coaches waited so long to make changes. I'd have taken Dmac off much sooner (or make the moves I suggested earlier).
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The Maoris might have done better to slip those mere used during the haka up their jumpers and used them to thump Leigh Halfpenny over the head. Or Hika Elliott could have done some karate kicks. Is Jono Gibbes still alive? Never mind, he'll be spinning standing up.The game was 2005 in reverse. Maori spent too long drinking their own kool aid.
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@Crash said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
Fuck the ABs better have a plan for getting some decent ball and keeping it away from the Lions pack
I expect catching the ball will go a long way to achieving that
@taniwharugby said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
@Crash said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
Fuck the ABs better have a plan for getting some decent ball and keeping it away from the Lions pack
I expect catching the ball will go a long way to achieving that
I'm just watching a version of this game in my head, played under a roof. Imagining that if all those dropped catches had been made, then at least a couple of times that backline would have run it back, rather than kicking it.
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@taniwharugby said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
@Crash said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
Fuck the ABs better have a plan for getting some decent ball and keeping it away from the Lions pack
I expect catching the ball will go a long way to achieving that
Exactly.
Sure the Lions have played relatively error free, strangling rugby, it's nothing the ABs can't deal with.
The Maori having great big tits for hands doesn't make the Lions any more of a threat than they were before this game. -
@kev said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
@Gunner I have doubts about Daggs accuracy under the high balll...
Not after last night. He was excellent
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That was rough...looked like Pryor had all rights there.
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Thank fuck that's over....
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@Stargazer They should have subbed the forwards earlier. They were beat up. The Lions forwards were always going to dominate.
@broughie said in Māori All Blacks vs British and Irish Lions:
@Stargazer They should have subbed the forwards earlier. They were beat up. The Lions forwards were always going to dominate.
Yep, them too.
