British Lions v Argentina

[Catogrande]

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Catogrande said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@MiketheSnow said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Not far off my Test side

I’m happy with that team, especially given the unavailability of some guys but going forward I think the front row will change with maybe only Genge keeping his spot. I’d like to see a little more physicality in the back row and the 9 and 15 will be different.

2 Aussies, a South African and a New Zealander in the team.

An Aussie and a South African on the bench.

“British and Irish Lions”

There are more Aussies and more South Africans in the team than Scottish people.

I’ve no problem with foreign born players per se, as a “for instance” Faletau , Tuilagi and the Vunipola brothers, all of whom moved to the UK at a young age and came through the systems here. The residency rules have been tightened now but the Granny rule needs to be scrapped. There have been too many mercenaries over here, taking a pay cheque and having a tilt at international rugby and then buggering off back home. The whole idea of project players stank even when it was within the rules.

I don’t think you’ll get too many on this forum that think vastly different.

[Jet]

@MN5 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Catogrande said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@MiketheSnow said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Not far off my Test side

I’m happy with that team, especially given the unavailability of some guys but going forward I think the front row will change with maybe only Genge keeping his spot. I’d like to see a little more physicality in the back row and the 9 and 15 will be different.

2 Aussies, a South African and a New Zealander in the team.

An Aussie and a South African on the bench.

“British and Irish Lions”

There are more Aussies and more South Africans in the team than Scottish people.

No it just seems that way

Only one Scottish person in that 23.

[sparky]

Joe Schmidt says nice things about the Lions midfield. And their assistant coach, Richard Wigglesworth, goes on the defensive even though Joe clearly wasn't having a dig. Round one to Joe Schmidt IMHO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c0k7jk4zxjlo

[MN5]

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@MN5 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Jet said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Catogrande said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@MiketheSnow said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Not far off my Test side

I’m happy with that team, especially given the unavailability of some guys but going forward I think the front row will change with maybe only Genge keeping his spot. I’d like to see a little more physicality in the back row and the 9 and 15 will be different.

2 Aussies, a South African and a New Zealander in the team.

An Aussie and a South African on the bench.

“British and Irish Lions”

There are more Aussies and more South Africans in the team than Scottish people.

No it just seems that way

Only one Scottish person in that 23.

Kinghorn and Russell will get the numbers up to three come test time

[Bones]

@sparky I never realised Wigglesworth was such a wanky fuckstick.

"It is not your background or how you have got here, it's what sort of player you are and what sort of man you are. We have got great men and great players."

[sparky]

@Bones He comes across as very thin-skinned.

[Bones]

@sparky plus it most definitely is your background.

[MiketheSnow]

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Joe Schmidt says nice things about the Lions midfield. And their assistant coach, Richard Wigglesworth, goes on the defensive even though Joe clearly wasn't having a dig. Round one to Joe Schmidt IMHO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c0k7jk4zxjlo

Thanks Joe, Coach of the United Islands of Australasia

[sparky]

@MiketheSnow It's the West Island and always has been.

[MiketheSnow]

If Joe needs a publicist send him my way

As a coach I've been very fortunate and honoured to help fine young men beat the best in the rugby world

I'm really excited for this group of fine young men to know that feeling by beating the best of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

All on the same day

[Dodge]

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Joe Schmidt says nice things about the Lions midfield. And their assistant coach, Richard Wigglesworth, goes on the defensive even though Joe clearly wasn't having a dig. Round one to Joe Schmidt IMHO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c0k7jk4zxjlo

strikes me that Schmidt knew exactly what he was doing with the southern hemisphere dig, and i think Wigglesworth's reply was perfectly reasonable.

Either way, love to see it

[Bones]

@Dodge all he needed was Mitch to tack on "it's about the journey,, but only the current part of the journey, not the journey that came before, apart from that journey being required for initial selection, ya know"

[Dodge]

tbh, i'm just looking for some niggle - can't see Schmidt going on Youtube for 45 minutes crying about how life is so unfair so we've got to get it where we can

[nostrildamus]

@MiketheSnow said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

As a coach I've been very fortunate and honoured to help fine young men beat the best in the rugby world

Hang on, I thought you were Welsh??!

[Callcentre Spunk]

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Bones He comes across as very thin-skinned.

I'd be fairly thin-skinned too if I'd spent my entire life lumped with such a comically stupid surname.

[Catogrande]

@Callcentre-Spunk said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Bones He comes across as very thin-skinned.

I'd be fairly thin-skinned too if I'd spent my entire life lumped with such a comically stupid surname.

Well said Mr Spunk

[Jet]

I dont hold out much hope, but I would love it, absolutely love it, if this sky sports wet dream, banter laden, hyperbole abusive, corporate bukkake party of a sporting entity, gets fucking humped red raw by the Aussies sans lube.

They disgust me. I hate everything they stand for in their current guise.

[Dodge]

haha, well that's one view i suppose. The irony being that's how most of the non die hard rugby fans (and plenty of those) around the world see the All Blacks PR machine.

The Lions is special, like it or not, I love it, absolutely love it.

[Bones]

@Callcentre-Spunk said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Bones He comes across as very thin-skinned.

I'd be fairly thin-skinned too if I'd spent my entire life lumped with such a comically stupid surname.

I wouldn't exclude the first name, there's a lovely companion for the surname if you use the common nickname version.

[Bones]

@Jet yeah after Dick's garbage I'm leaning towards yellow.