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2021 British & Irish Lions Tour
ACT Brumbies v British and Irish Lions (18/06/13)
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<blockquote data-quote="Patchey" data-source="post: 577309" data-attributes="member: 61403"><p>Which is baffling to be honest. Supposing Hogg gets a knock this game, with Kearney starting the Brumbies game and having suffered from injuries already that would leave the Lions vulnerable both at 10 and 15. The only other players in the squad who could cover 10 are Twelvetrees and (read in a weep) Barritt who played there at some point in South Africa. Similarly Maitland and Zebo have both played 15 occasionally but I'd rather have them on the wings where they're best and not out of position. If I was the ARU/Wallabies management I'd be begging the Brumbies to run their biggest forwards down the 10 channel all game. </p><p></p><p> Calling up another ten would be the way forward. Laidlaw is in South Africa with Scotland, Jackson and Madigan are in the US and Burns is in Argentina with England so they could all have left this weekend and be over the jet lag in time for the game. Admittedly they also played at the weekend. Calling up Williams for 48 hours just seems like a waste from an overall tour perspective. Another player would spend the rest of the tour with the Lions, providing cover for later injuries, pushing other players for places and just generally developing as an individual player. I'd put good money on Gatland having to call up either another outside back or a 10 before the end of the week once Williams has gone back to Japan. From a purely rational point of view the only advantages I can see of having him in the team are that it was relatively easy for him to get to Australia and that having not played test match rugby recently he is probably in better shape.</p><p></p><p>Of course from a purely irrational point of view I firmly believe tat Williams will arrive, score a last minute hatrick to win the game and be carried off the pitch after an ex-pat led pitch invasion...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Patchey, post: 577309, member: 61403"] Which is baffling to be honest. Supposing Hogg gets a knock this game, with Kearney starting the Brumbies game and having suffered from injuries already that would leave the Lions vulnerable both at 10 and 15. The only other players in the squad who could cover 10 are Twelvetrees and (read in a weep) Barritt who played there at some point in South Africa. Similarly Maitland and Zebo have both played 15 occasionally but I'd rather have them on the wings where they're best and not out of position. If I was the ARU/Wallabies management I'd be begging the Brumbies to run their biggest forwards down the 10 channel all game. Calling up another ten would be the way forward. Laidlaw is in South Africa with Scotland, Jackson and Madigan are in the US and Burns is in Argentina with England so they could all have left this weekend and be over the jet lag in time for the game. Admittedly they also played at the weekend. Calling up Williams for 48 hours just seems like a waste from an overall tour perspective. Another player would spend the rest of the tour with the Lions, providing cover for later injuries, pushing other players for places and just generally developing as an individual player. I'd put good money on Gatland having to call up either another outside back or a 10 before the end of the week once Williams has gone back to Japan. From a purely rational point of view the only advantages I can see of having him in the team are that it was relatively easy for him to get to Australia and that having not played test match rugby recently he is probably in better shape. Of course from a purely irrational point of view I firmly believe tat Williams will arrive, score a last minute hatrick to win the game and be carried off the pitch after an ex-pat led pitch invasion... [/QUOTE]
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