Fair result. No margin for error in any of the matches. All Blacks need a more reliable kicker!
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Thread: The Lions.
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08-07-2017 09:41 AM #91
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08-07-2017 10:02 AM #92
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08-07-2017 10:50 AM #93This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As a Scottish rugby fan I was supporting the Lions but there's no doubt that it loses some of its magic for me with no Scots in the squad. I can't hand on heart say any necessarily deserved to be in the team, hopefully Hogg would have been if fit, but I think Gatland and the other coaches have very little respect for our game.
An unfortunate consequence of the series result for me is that Gatland, Howley etc will be vindicated and celebrated and I don't think they deserve to be. We were well beaten in the 1st test, the final score flattered us big time. We battled well in the 2nd but the conditions and red card (which was the correct call) more than levelled the playing field. We battled well again today but the ABs made a lot of errors, unusually for them, and we got away with one at the end there.
Despite how Sky try to hype it up it doesn't deserve to be up there with previous great series for me.
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08-07-2017 11:22 AM #94
I don't know what to make of that.
Didn't feel we were a good enough team to win a series in NZ especially compared to '71 vintage. Then again they couldn't put us away so draw must be about right.
Anti climax main emotion.
Maybe AB's not as good as the hype is one conclusion."We've also been unsure about what has happened to the receipts of the players who have been sold."
George Foulkes BBC website 20/3/08
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08-07-2017 01:35 PM #95
i've never saw an all blacks team with so many handling errors, and that pass forward in the 2nd half which would have been an easy try was absolutely ****** dreadful, they really should have beaten the 15 points winning margin in the 1st test :(
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08-07-2017 04:12 PM #96This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-07-2017 04:58 PM #97This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-07-2017 06:32 PM #98This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
i thought it was a penalty at the end as well.
as much as the lions deserve some credit for hanging in there and some sterling defensive work, the All Blacks should have scored several times more today, and last week also, even with 14 men.
A statistic I saw this afternoon says a lot: in the 240 minutes of play in the 3 tests, the Lions led for 3.
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09-07-2017 03:16 PM #99
Barrett slotted 15 out of 20 conversions in the series. To be precise, he missed 14 points. Most un-All Blacklike.
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10-07-2017 02:20 AM #100This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
From this end, and having watched most of their matches over the past 9 years, the three performances were not up to their usual standards, that is for sure. They've got quite a few new/young players in at the minute and it just didn't quite seem to click as it usually does.
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