Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Help Support The Rugby Forum :
Forums
Rugby Union
General Rugby Union
Gatland signs Super Rugby deal with Chiefs
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 947986" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I wouldn't be all that biased as to who gets selected now, I'd say about half of my negative reps on these boards (not that I care about that just an example) are from my posts where I call the Lions a relic and say a successful tour to me is one where no Leinster players get selected and ruin a portion of their careers, unfortunately that didn't happen last time out, Jack McGrath and Sean O'Brien joined Cian Healy from 2013 and Luke Fitzgerald from 2009 as guys who weren't the same again for at least four years after one of these bogus tours.</p><p></p><p>Yeah I didn't want Davies, he was playing outside Ben Te'o and hadn't really done a thing of note apart from showing his inability to pass a rugby ball before Sexton and Farrell let him loose. I'm pretty sure at the time I acknowledged he was played well in the first test but I wanted two centres to pass the ball, it probably would have been somewhat justified but for Sonny Bill's series losing moment. I also don't think the selection of Davies really helps rebut the point that Gatland isn't a good stack minded coach, Davies is an absolutely fantastic bulldozer but with literally no nuance to his game. A further example of this was him picking Jared Payne of all people he left Ringrose go to Japan and he has more or less been the best 13 in the world for since that tour finished bar struggling in the 6 nations this year which was endemic in the whole Irish squad and Ringer was also one of the best performing Irish players in a struggling team in 2017 as well as Leinster's best player in their unsuccessful knockout runs that year, any coach who felt like they could coach that Lions squad to be an attacking force takes Ringrose on that tour.</p><p></p><p>I mean that when Gatland has a sniff at success he takes it, basically the opposite of choking, it's a fantastic trait to have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 947986, member: 45598"] I wouldn't be all that biased as to who gets selected now, I'd say about half of my negative reps on these boards (not that I care about that just an example) are from my posts where I call the Lions a relic and say a successful tour to me is one where no Leinster players get selected and ruin a portion of their careers, unfortunately that didn't happen last time out, Jack McGrath and Sean O'Brien joined Cian Healy from 2013 and Luke Fitzgerald from 2009 as guys who weren't the same again for at least four years after one of these bogus tours. Yeah I didn't want Davies, he was playing outside Ben Te'o and hadn't really done a thing of note apart from showing his inability to pass a rugby ball before Sexton and Farrell let him loose. I'm pretty sure at the time I acknowledged he was played well in the first test but I wanted two centres to pass the ball, it probably would have been somewhat justified but for Sonny Bill's series losing moment. I also don't think the selection of Davies really helps rebut the point that Gatland isn't a good stack minded coach, Davies is an absolutely fantastic bulldozer but with literally no nuance to his game. A further example of this was him picking Jared Payne of all people he left Ringrose go to Japan and he has more or less been the best 13 in the world for since that tour finished bar struggling in the 6 nations this year which was endemic in the whole Irish squad and Ringer was also one of the best performing Irish players in a struggling team in 2017 as well as Leinster's best player in their unsuccessful knockout runs that year, any coach who felt like they could coach that Lions squad to be an attacking force takes Ringrose on that tour. I mean that when Gatland has a sniff at success he takes it, basically the opposite of choking, it's a fantastic trait to have. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Rugby Union
General Rugby Union
Gatland signs Super Rugby deal with Chiefs
Top