Lions tour 2025

[Skipper Pup]

Awesome game live. Lions fans are good fun and that Reds game was a great atmosphere.


... I even saw a bloke in a kilt outside the stadium! It's 11 degrees lad!

 

[weeman27bob]

Awesome game live. Lions fans are good fun and that Reds game was a great atmosphere.


... I even saw a bloke in a kilt outside the stadium! It's 11 degrees lad!

That's summer weather in Scotland

 

[Furball]

Double digits is officially taps aff weather.

 

[Skipper Pup]

That's summer weather in Scotland

Haha perhaps I should have added it was blowing a gale. A mini cyclone hit down south yesterday.

 

[Howe_zat]

British and Irish Lions: Owen Farrell set to join tour of Australia - BBC Sport

You'd think he'd be in from the start if he was going to be picked, rather than a replacement for Daly who was presumably there to cover the collective outside backs.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Massive pisser for Daly. He's been quality in every game so far too, arguably ver Lions' form back.

It was inevitable Farrell fils would get a call up at some point. I don't have a problem with it, for all his faults he is a test match beast.

 

[ripper868]

He was also already in Aus doing pundits stuff anyway right? Suspect he won't be in the test team, but probably get a run vs the combined Aus/NZ xV

 

[BoyBrumby]

Handy option to have off the bench for tests.

Covers fly half, inside centre and full back.

Very much the Lions' best midfield defensive player (armless tackles notwithstanding), so could see him coming on to protect a lead at about 55/60 mins if Farrell pere goes for Russell at stand off, as seems probable.

Finn's not quite a turnstyle, but his best friend wouldn't claim defence is his strongest suit.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Owen a popular lad down under it seems.

Mitchell is such a beige #9, honestly got nothing exceptional about his game.

 

[ripper868]

Owen's a popular lad everywhere outside of England isn't he?

Tahs a bit stiffed having that try chalked off, could argue Lions 6 did the same thing at the next lineout from the relieving penalty, but as it's not directly led to a try it wo t get called - tough one to police properly.

 

[ripper868]

TMO really needs to put down the headset and stay out of it.

 

[ripper868]

Just saw replay of Jones 2nd try, could almost argue Mr Bealham impeded the Tahs defender from coming across...would of changed nothing, but still would of been nice to see the TMO try and find something

 

[BoyBrumby]

Think with the way Keenan failed to complete that tackle we can start to ink in Kinghorn's name for the test #15.

 

[ripper868]

Certainly a scrappier outing than the previous, not sure any of the Lions have played themselves into the 1st test XV, might be a couple who have played themselves out of it though.

 

[ripper868]

Also think Tupou might be playing himself out of the XV, been destroyed at scrum time

 

[Ali TT]

Owen a popular lad down under it seems.

Mitchell is such a beige #9, honestly got nothing exceptional about his game.

A very beige try there

 

[Son Of Coco]

Or if someone was half-Korean and grew up in the UK, would you go around telling them they weren’t a ‘real’ Korean? They might not feel much of a connection to that part of their heritage, but that’s not for you to decide. Policing national identities in this way is just really sinister behaviour.

Koreans would do this for them if/when they visited Korea.

Your point still stands though.

 

[Ali TT]

Lions forwards have been good but pretty wasteful at the line.

 

[ripper868]

This obstruction at the lineout is gonna decide one of the tests isn't it.

 

[social]

Also think Tupou might be playing himself out of the XV, been destroyed at scrum time

Topou has been a myth forever

“If he just gets fitter”

No, he just isn’t that good