15 Lawson Creighton, 14 Andrew Kellaway, 13 Lalakai Foketi, 12 Joey Walton, 11 Darby Lancaster, 10 Jack Bowen, 9 Teddy Wilson, 8 Hugh Sinclair (c), 7 Charlie Gamble, 6 Rob Leota, 5 Miles Amatosero, 4 Fergus Lee-Warner, 3 Taniela Tupou, 2 Ethan Dobbins, 1 Tom Lambert
Replacements: 16 Mahe Vailanu, 17 Jack Barrett, 18 Daniel Botha, 19 Matt Philip, 20 Jamie Adamson, 21 Jack Grant, 22 Tane Edmed, 23 Henry O’Donnell
Lions
Keenan, Hansen, Jones, Tuipulotu, Kinghorn, Smith, Mitchell
Schoeman, Cowan-Dickie, Bealham, Beirne, Ryan, Pollock, Van der Flier, Earl
Replacements:
Sheehan, Genge, Furlong, McCarthy, Cummings, Morgan
White, M Smith
Working out who's going to be back row cover
Game time for Keenan and Kinghorn
If the Jock midfield fire they'll start the first test
@MiketheSnow I like that backline, Hansen looks a bit of a spare part though.
He'll have a stormer now.
Looking at the original squad selection I feel that the back row would start to look a little congested around the No7 shirt, with three out and out 7s plus Earl who plays his best rugby at 7 and Curry who is adept at both 6 & 7. But four matches in and we've had only two starters at 7 - Morgan and JVdF, which seems to me to say that the others are considered as utility players. Before this tour I'd have picked VdF above Morgan but from what we've seen so far I'm leaning the other way.
@MiketheSnow said in Waratahs v British Lions:
Should go the same way as the first two matches
Competitive until it isn't
Yup, the home sides play on emotion early and are usually good for the first 30 until the pace of the game gets to them and the benches come on where one is proper test quality (obviously), and the other is fringe SR players.
@MiketheSnow said in Waratahs v British Lions:
Pollock, Van der Flier, Earl
Farrell making the same mistake as Razor - trying to squeeze players onto the field as his first concern rather than where they best fit and complement each other.
After a dissapointing start at home the Lions have looked fabolous in Australia, it's difficult to see any super team being much chop.
@Catogrande Pollock being picked at 8 and 6, when his best position is 7, feels to be me like they are prepping him for the bench.
@MacDazzler said in Waratahs v British Lions:
This will be an absolutely flogging. Probably a similar score to the Crusaders Waratahs game in 2002.
Sweet. Looking forward to Kinghorns four tries as he’s plying the same position as Caleb Ralph
@MN5 said in Waratahs v British Lions:
Pretty easy to see four, maybe five Scots in the test backline so far.
I'm sitting in bed at home, recovering from whatever the fuck illness this is 
A mate over from NZ along with 3 guys from my Rugby club are at the stadium having spent an afternoon getting to know each other over a beer. To say I'm pissed off and jealous doesn't even cut it
@sparky said in Waratahs v British Lions:
@NTA Get well soon.
Cheers.
Worst fucking week after the planning I did
But at least I don't miss a weekend off organising club Rugby
@NTA said in Waratahs v British Lions:
Great ball. Poor defence
That sort of timing is important. I think Farrell Snr would be best served trying to use established, effective combinations.
For the Australian supporters, you hope he puts together players who have almost no experience playing with each other.
Tahs scrum going to custard. No surprise with Amatosero in the second row.
Picture painted for Williams. And as he knows nothing about rugby to start with, he will stick with it
@Duluth said in Waratahs v British Lions:
Tahs defence was better than I was expecting there. Good effort in the maul too
I'm actually shocked at the maul defence, but then I heard rumours the coach lit a fire under a few guys after our shit season.
McKellar is an angry looking man tattooed in the body of a librarian
I'd like to see these refs acknowledge that the NH teams cheat tremendously at rucks and are near constantly offside.
@NTA said in Waratahs v British Lions:
Charlie muthafkn Gamble. Looks at the ref, gets the go ahead, takes it
CHARLIE
MUTHAFKN
GAMBLE
