This game is reminding me of the other frustrating as fuck feature from the weekends games. Halfbacks doing all sorts of fuckaboutery with the ball at the back of the ruck.
IMO, if you put hands on the ball then take them off, ball should be out. It's getting ridiculous watching the ball get rolled by hand, picked up and put in a better place, with the odd gratuitous roll by foot. Horrid.
Great watch
Exciting
No Lions playing themselves in
Finn Smith and Farrell combo doesn’t work
Loving the niggle. Just getting up to the last 10 minutes of the first half.
Blond Smith playing himself out of contention.
Kalani Thomas is fucking killing the FNP with his step step delivery
@MiketheSnow said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
George has done enough too
Back up hooker for Saturday
Speaking of front rows: surely Porter isn't the second best loose head in the squad?
He's hardly the best scrummager
These Stan commentators are getting more insufferable the longer the tour goes - cheerleaders would be more balanced
@KiwiMurph said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
These Stan commentators are getting more insufferable the longer the tour goes - cheerleaders would be more balanced
Remember: they're selling this to a loig audience where unbridled bias is the point
How good is it for that McLeod guy? Plays club Rugby in Canberra and just out there ripping in with internationals
@Duluth said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
Anyone know the pre match odds?
I gave them no chance of scoring
@MiketheSnow said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
Lions have been poor
Too cute, not direct enough
Got nervous playing their width game after the intercept
Why did McLeod kick it? Probably wouldn't have gone 60m but jeez don't kick it away with time over
@NTA said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
How good is it for that McLeod guy? Plays club Rugby in Canberra and just out there ripping in with internationals
Kicking the ball was a bold play haha
I'll forever be perplexed at the thought process going through a player's head when they kick long upon hearing the hooter.
Wanted the chase but there was no way they could get closer than the chasing players.
And probably played league growing up
Well done FNP
If they’d had a hard running 12 trucking it up and committing the back row and 10/12 channel they could easily have won this
The last Lions try came on the back of another ill advised chip kick. But FNP put up a brave fight
Every Lions player out there looking unhappy bc they know they just shit the bed in terms of selection
First nations Pasifika bloody great effort fair play proved a real contest. Stoked my Scottish wingers and Lions 1-12 multi came in tho
There should be some people involved in that AUNZ team (coaches and players) who should be feeling sheepish watching that game.
The less fancied FNP were far far better in comparison.
@MiketheSnow said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
Well done FNP
If they’d had a hard running 12 trucking it up and committing the back row and 10/12 channel they could easily have won this
Starting Kalani Thomas was also a massive mistake
@canefan said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
That attacking chip kick would have excited BB. What a waste of valuable ball
Now called "The Ardie Gambit"
@Victor-Meldrew said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
@canefan said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
That attacking chip kick would have excited BB. What a waste of valuable ball
Now called "The Ardie Gambit"
Incorrect, they kicked into the opposition's 22, not in their own 22. More aptly the Barrett gambit
Closest game of the tour and there'll be a few on both teams making pointed comments through their on field play to their respective coaching staff. For very different reasons.
These players just cemented a legacy for the next tour. In a way the AUNZ nonsense didn't.
If McCarthy is injured then Beirne to second row and Morgan to 6
Chessum and Pollock on the bench, Earl had no impact tonight
Farrell has played himself into the 23 along with Mitchell and Kinghorn
@antipodean said in First Nations Pasifika XV v Lions:
Closest game of the tour and there'll be a few on both teams making pointed comments through their on field play to their respective coaching staff. For very different reasons.
These players just cemented a legacy for the next tour. In a way the AUNZ nonsense didn't.
AUNZ was an opportunity lost. These boys just come out and niggled, made life difficult for the tourists
