God I hope Ross Ford goes, it would be up there with Waldrom!!??!!
God I hope Ross Ford goes, it would be up there with Waldrom!!??!!
So are you saying the five named will go even if their form for the season is sh!te?Originally Posted by lukic
Have you a crystal ball to be able to tell whether POC will last the season injury wise?
I've seen better centres in a box of Black Magic
My Stab at XV;
1.Healy
2.Ford
3.A.Jones
4R. Grey
5 POC
6Ferris
7.Warburton
8.Faletou
9Phillips
10 Sexton
11.North
12.J. Roberts
13.Tuilagi
14.Visser
15.Foden
Australia physically have a very small backline may aswel take full advantage of it with a big starting 15.
Good team, stick Lawes in there instead of POC (hopefully) and possibly Cole @3, and I would be happy to sleep through the matches, which I inevitably will even if Munster had a couple of players there...
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
Ok red herring relax its only a comment , jesus you would be half afraid of writing anything here half the time , and no i dont have a crystal ball but its my opinion , didnt see you picking a team seeing you know everything and everyone else is wrong
After rounds 1& 2 of the HC my team for 1st test would be:
1. Joe Marler (Replace Dan Coles, was never good a distinguishing Tight from Loose head sorry)
2. Richardt Strauss (so explosive in the loose, reminds me of a Fla in his hayday)
3. Adam Jones (Showed wasn't just a scrummager, did well at rucktime)
4. Richie Gray
5. Paul O Connell (getting back to his best in round 2, good in lineout and got a lot of touches)
6. Chris Robshaw (i know he's a 7 but think he'd be good enough at 6 as well)
7. Steffon Armitage (Justin Tipuric been best from B&I sides)
8. Nick Easter (Think he's been excellent thus far)
9. Danny Care (SUPERB) (Ben Youngs and Murray had a good Round 2)
10. Johnny Wilkinson (Been very very good, Dan Biggar runs him close with Flood)
11. Alex Cuthbert
12. Jamie Roberts
13. Jonathon Davies/Manu Tuilagi (Tough Call after todays match)
14. Chris Ashton
15. Leigh Halfpenny
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Sky sports doing their infuriating lions index now.
no Irish starter.
half backs are Care and Cipriani
To be fair to them, they did all state that it was NOT their selection for the first test but a Form guide to whose playing well based on performances so far and than averaged out from the 2 games. Care is rightfully at 9, been exceptional
Cole is a TH though so unlikely he and Jones will both play
\"A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.\"
Oops. thanks. I'll edit that......thanks
I asked two questions of your post. Don't think it states 'I know everything and everyone else is wrong'.
You will probably be proven right with the five aforementioned. Personally I think SOB might not make it. I just can't see how you can predict POC not lasting. Maybe age might be catching up but unless he gets unlucky I expect him to be there. Seing as how you mentioned it I would go for on current form (including summer tours):
1. Healy
2. Best
3. A Jones
4. Grey
5. POC
6. Ferris
7. Warburton
8. Morgan
9. Phillips
10. Flood
11. Ashton
12. Roberts
13. BOD
14. North
15. Halfpenney
I've seen better centres in a box of Black Magic
If SOB does what he did to McCaw for 2/3 tests for this season he will make the Lions ahead of Warburton. If he doesn't then he won't. I'd expect the bitter man to take as many Welsh and/or Wasps players he knows as he can. To get beyond that you'd need to be exceptional. In the summer SOB was that.
I'd also expect as things stand that poor or not Australia will comfortably win the series, probably 2-1 but that won't reflect that their wins will be comfortable ones. When you look at what we can field, if BOD is the best OC we're in trouble because he's on his last legs. OH? Cupboard is pretty bare. Sexton and Keatley have as much chance as anyone else, the former fair enough, the latter shouldn't be but seriously there's nothing stand out international class at OH around in the British & Irish isles at the moment. Wings will be packed with scoring talent, they could basically just take all their wing options and forget OC and FB players. But then considering the options at IC and OC they might have to do that. SHs are nothing special at present either. England have the 2 flakiest under pressure SHs I've ever seen. Ireland has nothing special at the moment, Murray could be good but he's years away not months. Reddan is up and down and I don't think the Lions will have the pack to help him out the way Wasps did. Scotland are average there. Wales? Phillips offers brutality and brutal passing but he's still possibly their best. Up front Lions could field a selection of front rows that will smash their opposite numbers. Locks some good/some bad. Back row will be about who can still walk come the end of the season. Lions to have the best up front but not a clue what to do with that ball they win. Aussies to live off scraps and illegality up front but do something with those scraps and pile up more points.
\"A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.\"
POC is 15/1 on PP to be Lions captain......
Just saying....
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
Won't be with Gatland running the show - will be Welsh as will large chunk of the squad. Even if the bitterness doesn't do it then the brains will. He will know how Henry ****ed up his Welsh tenure by telling the Welsh players they were the best around for years then when they were on the Lions tour he wouldn't pick a one of them.
\"A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.\"
I don't think he'll get away with a Welsh captain myself.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
That's a super price for the 3rd favourite.
I'm not sure why Robshaw is second favourite at 5/1. Is he likely to beat Ferris etc to the blindside spot?
"That's what's difficult. You know that O'Connell is going to be the one that will jump for the ball but you still don't manage to steal it. It's kind of annoying
"I talked about it with the Toulouse players, my final in 2006 and theirs in 2008 against Munster. I was marking Paul O'Connell and they were man-marking him too. We knew he was going to jump. But I remember I was in really good condition, with a good lift, but every time I just missed it."
Harinordoquy
Well he constantly loses against Australia with Welsh players so maybe the penny will drop and he'll try something different!!!
That's why I backed him, if POC stays injury free I think he'll be captain. I don't think Robshaw will be a cert to start so I can't see him being captain (I think he might lead the dirt trackers though).
I think Gatty will have a load of his lads on the Lions squad and on that basis I think the captain won't be Welsh.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
My reasoning for SOB is I think he needs the summer off. The injury he has at the moment is very similar to Leamy's. Couple that with I expect Leinster to be busy come next April and May it will be a big ask for him to keep up his level.
I've seen better centres in a box of Black Magic
I don't know why people are ruling out Ford..... he showed last Sunday in the first half that he could pick out O'Connell time after time in the lineout.
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
here all week folks...
Lions special now on the Rugby Club, Sky Sports One.
if fit warburton will be captain
Connacht Rugby
"Live to win. Born to lose"
No more complicated than him being England skipper i suspect.
Putting money on any back row to even be on the plane at this stage is a punt.
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men" Edward R Murrow
"Little by little, we have been brought into the present condition in which we are able neither to tolerate the evils from which we suffer, nor the remedies we need to cure them." - Livy
I disagree.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
with a welsh team coaching staff its a guarantee
Connacht Rugby
"Live to win. Born to lose"
Quite the opposite, with a Welsh coaching team I think it's even less likely. Politics and all that.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
Think its between Warburton, BOD and POC. With i think BOD (being fit) will get the nod
Tipuric is playing considerably better than 'bread' at the moment.
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