Test Match 2: All Blacks v British & Irish Lions (Wellington)

[Vieux Talonneur]

Bad miss

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Bring on the Lawes

 

[munstermuffin]

Itoje's been half good half bad. Couple of costly knock on's have cost the Lions 2 good attacking opportunities. He's everywhere though, and considering the conditions handling errors will happen I suppose. Faletau not been great I agree.

Enough of the brown nosing comment re Warbs though munstermuffin. Very unfair to a player who's given his all and achieved a hell of a lot despite his never ending injury problems. He's a great ambassador of the game, always conducting himself with integrity and humility. Sorry but it's just starting to grate. Call Gats what you want, he's been pretty poor for Wales since 2012, but Warbs is a true warrior, even if I would have preferred Tips most of the time.

Maybe fair but way he's been selected has left a soir taste in many peoples mouth and he's part of a reason why alot became disillusioned with Lions this tour

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Love seeing the offside line refereed.

Barrett embracing his time spent in Ireland, wants a Lions win.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Thank God the ABs cannot into kicking

 

[Truth]

There was no slippage and no arms....

No sorry I meant in my Super Rugby example. The guy slipped or ducked into it. It even looked purposeful as to milk it. Might be a loophole there...

 

[Tadginator]

This kind of match is the only time the all blacks will somewhat regret preferring amazing rugby talent to percentage kicking

 

[nero]

BB needs to sort his kicking game. He's improved recently but I still cringe every time he lines it up. In games like this it's the difference between win and lose

 

[McTallshort]

Ffs Murray

 

[dullonien]

Maybe fair but way he's been selected has left a soir taste in many peoples mouth and he's part of a reason why alot became disillusioned with Lions this tour

What because he's been selected in one test match. He had a great 6 nations, but got injured. Other injured players were also selected e.g. Kruis, so it wasn't only him. Another injury on tour has hampered him, but he's letting no-one down in this game.

 

[munstermuffin]

Can see Cruden coming on for goal kicking alone. Big issue we have is CJ is on bench slightly injured and flogged from Tuesday.
Lawes some bit spent too.

Our impact isn't as hot as it should be

 

[Chief Pete]

Bring on the Lawes

Lawes and Cj for 20 minutes please

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Murray has been costly.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Discipline is appalling. That's lucky not to be a yellow IMO.

 

[Truth]

Reff using his TMO quite a bit. Not complaining. Its just that I haven't seen in the way he's using it and its twice now.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Did Garcés think that maul formed from a kick in general play? That would be the only reason he awarded scrum to AB.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Daft from Murray, he didn't even need to be in that tackle

 

[ncurd]

No sorry I meant in my Super Rugby example. The guy slipped or ducked into it. It even looked purposeful as to milk it. Might be a loophole there...

Mitigating factors will always be taken into consideration when deciding the colour of the card. However I think a shoulder blow to the head is like a tip tackle you start at red and then see if there are factors....there were none is SBW favour here.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Lawes and Cj please

CJ's knackered.

 

[dullonien]

munstermuffin moaning about Warbs, Murray has probably been the worst performing Lion this game.