Match thread

sparky

After that, both the Brumbies on Wednesday and the Anzac squad next Saturday will believe they have a good chance of downing the Lions........

Darth Sader

@sparky said in Waratahs v British Lions:

After that, both the Brumbies on Wednesday and the Anzac squad next Saturday will believe they have a good chance of downing the Lions........

Anzac game should be fun

NTA

Tackle completion was
76% Tahs
82% Lions
Hardly exceptional for a team of Test players

sparky

@NTA I think they are vulnerable if they encounter a team who, like Argentina, have the skills to really attack them.

MiketheSnow

Jones is locked in at 13

ACT Crusader

@MiketheSnow said in Waratahs v British Lions:

Jones is locked in at 13

Agree. Live question as to who he partners with in the midfield. Tuipoluto in the box seat but we know Farrell could default to Aki.

@sparky said in Waratahs v British Lions:

@ACT-Crusader It'll be Bundee.

Bundee has been better so far this tour cause Tuipulotu has looked rusty coming back from a long term injury but given how scratchy some of the combos have looked if he wanted to pick Jones at 13 he could be tempted to just play the Scottish 10-12-13 combo in the first test.

I expect he's going to either go with that or just pick the Irish combo, a mix and match seems more risky.

junior

@MajorRage said in Waratahs v British Lions:

Lions who put their hand up: jones, Mitchell
Lions who put their hands down: Finn smith

Rest. Meh.

Tahs: huge heart.

Mitchell looks like the most important person in my firm's finance department but he's probably only middle management.

Bones

@junior said in Waratahs v British Lions:

@MajorRage said in Waratahs v British Lions:

Lions who put their hand up: jones, Mitchell
Lions who put their hands down: Finn smith

Rest. Meh.

Tahs: huge heart.

Mitchell looks like the most important person in my firm's finance department but he's probably only middle management.

We fired him last year for getting drunk at the Xmas party and inviting the boss's mum back to the holiday inn.

MiketheSnow

The Lions are looking less green by the day

NTA

@Bones said in Waratahs v British Lions:

@junior said in Waratahs v British Lions:

@MajorRage said in Waratahs v British Lions:

Lions who put their hand up: jones, Mitchell
Lions who put their hands down: Finn smith

Rest. Meh.

Tahs: huge heart.

Mitchell looks like the most important person in my firm's finance department but he's probably only middle management.

We fired him last year for getting drunk at the Xmas party and inviting the boss's mum back to the holiday inn.

I think one of the blokes at our club invited Mitchell's mum somewhere. Only a theory:

Nepia

@sparky said in Waratahs v British Lions:

Ireland's favourite English nepotist is claiming the Waratahs watered their pitch. They are claming they didn't.

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Has Farrell never been to Australia? They really don't know how to do grass over here. I think groundskeeping is a one week Cert IV.

NTA

The surface at the SFS is easily the worst part about it. Speaking to people in the industry, a lot of corners were cut to meet project deadlines. The issue now is that it's a year-round surface so starting again is going to be extremely difficult.

antipodean

@sparky said in Waratahs v British Lions:

Ireland's favourite English nepotist is claiming the Waratahs watered their pitch. They are claming they didn't.

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Irish and British don't have experience of wet pitches? Does it not rain over there?