Warm Up Match 3: Crusaders v British & Irish Lions (Christchurch)

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Has North touched the ball?

Don't know.

Can't make mistakes if you don't touch the ball though.

 

[TommiG88]

Watson showing more class than the bland Crusaders backs

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Payne, Watson, North?

Something like that, wouldn't have North tbh, Watson is playing himself very close.

 

[GoTheNaki]

Yeah as someone said...... Crotty. Read. They havent played like this all year. What happened to Mo'unga from the start of the season...

 

[dullonien]

He's done well defensively when needed.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Something like that, wouldn't have North tbh, Watson is playing himself very close.

Trouble is who else is there?

Nowell was destroyed v the blues.
Seymour?
Maybe Daly?

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Watson should've finished that

Watson did very well there

Wait, what?

 

[Groundhog]

LOL this Lions team is a bigger bunch of chokers than the AB's in 2007 against the french!!!! How many tries have these muppets bombed???

You're losing.......

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Don't know.

Can't make mistakes if you don't touch the ball though.

Would say not having touched the ball is a mistake in itself though. He can't just wait for the ball to come to him. Run some bleddy lines North!

 

[big ginger 8]

Crusaders will push on to win this. It's a game of two halves. NH teams need to learn this.

So wait a game isn't 40 minutes? I haven't been getting full value for my tickets...

 

[Groundhog]

Must say Watson is a lovely little player

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Watson is so much better at 15 than Halfpenny and Hogg currently.

Oh, is that his starting position and has he been named top NH player three years running?

He does look better at fullback than I have seen him elsewhere but he has done nothing in this game that Hogg couldn't do as well, if not better.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Kruis off. Surely sealed his test spot.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Wait, what?

No idea where that first one came from

 

[The Jones Boy]

Watson is having a ball of a time.
Liam Williams is letting his team down.

 

[Bluemoon]

What a totally terrible kick from Murray, which I'm almost certain is tactical. Ok it led to a knock on and a Lions scrum, but it's kicking away an attacking platform in the Crusaders half. There has to be more from the Lions than going aerial.

 

[Skylinerd1]

LOL this Lions team is a bigger bunch of chokers than the AB's in 2007 against the french!!!! How many tries have these muppets bombed???

You're losing.......

So this lions team is pants. These Crusaders backs are a bunch of bloody school kids and they are hardly beating them.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Oh, is that his starting position and has he been named top NH player three years running?

He does look better at fullback than I have seen him elsewhere but he has done nothing in this game that Hogg couldn't do as well, if not better.

It's called current form.

 

[valley commando]

You wont get this french reff in the first test mate. From what iv seen if the AB's actually get to set a scrum and follow through with it theres going to be lions bodies flying all over the show. They are going to get mullered in the tests.

You still won't be able to scrum come test time either.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

I've not really noticed this before but the key to Murray's kicking is he strokes it in a motion which is so much more measured than other scrum halves. Most 9s just jab it but Murray takes his time.