Lions v Barbarians (Official Match Thread)

[mrzimmerman]

First topic message reminder :

The team has been named. What do you think? Predictions for the match?

British & Irish Lions:
S Hogg (Scotland); A Cuthbert (Wales), J Davies (Wales), J Roberts (Wales), S Maitland (Scotland); O Farrell (England), M Phillips (Wales); M Vunipola (England), R Hibbard (Wales), A Jones (Wales), R Gray (Scotland), P O’Connell (Ireland, capt), D Lydiate (Wales), J Tipuric (Wales), T Faletau (Wales).

Replacements: T Youngs (England), C Healy (Ireland), M Stevens (England), A W Jones (Wales), J Heaslip (Ireland), C Murray (Ireland), J Sexton (Ireland), G North (Wales).


Barbarians:
15 Jared Payne, 14 Joe Rokocoko, 13 Elliot Daly, 12 Casey Laulala, 11 Taku Ngwenya, 10 Nick Evans, 9 Dimitri Yachvili, 8 Sergio Parisse,
7 Sam Jones, 6 Samu Manoa, 5 Dean Mumm, 4 Marco Wentzel, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Schalk Brits, 1 Paul James.

Replacements: 16 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 17 Duncan Jones, 18 Jim Hamilton, 19 Imanol Harinordoquy, 20 Andrea Lo Cicero, 21 Kahn Fotuali'i, 22 James Hook, 23 Mike Tindall.

[maestegmafia]

Guys can we just get over this hatred for a few weeks please!

Hatred

There is no hatred anywhere..!

There is a great deal of ignorance, using the word hatred defines that completely.

[ChequeredJersey]

True that. Plus English rugby is on Sky which not everyone wants/can afford

Every single English premiership game is freely available in full on the premiership website. Only go up after the game but it's usually within a few hours. Not sure if it'll continue next season

The point is none of you watch the pro12 or six nations or HEC matches not involving England or English teams so you know little about non English players, hense the your perspective on these threads being so naive.

That's just offensive, based on nothing but your own preconceived prejudices, managing to combine xenophobia with generalisation and frankly merits an immediate withdrawal and apology



And more importantly it's plain false

It's not false.

How many pro 12 games did you watch this year? Do you even have a TV channel that cover pro 12?

4 (and that is the maximum extension of your argument, which also claimed that ALL English users on this forum watched no Pro12, no non-English HEC games and no non-English 6N matches, in ascending order of ridiculousness). No, I do not, neither do I have access at home to a television channel which would let me watch HEC rugby, or Lions rugby or AP rugby, but it doesn't stop me from watching those when I have the time either. Some English posters admittedly WUM and make statements about other nations' club games without evidence but so it seems do at least as many Welsh posters, and posters from every Nationality. Making universal absolute statements about those Nations would be just as out of order as what you just did. Now I'm off to watch the rugby, hope you enjoy the game, I'm not sure I'll be able to follow it as apparently I only watch the English players

[Pal Joey]

Enjoy the game, CJ.

[Cari]

CJ We'll ALL enjoy the game! GO LIONS!!!!

[maestegmafia]

True that. Plus English rugby is on Sky which not everyone wants/can afford

Every single English premiership game is freely available in full on the premiership website. Only go up after the game but it's usually within a few hours. Not sure if it'll continue next season

The point is none of you watch the pro12 or six nations or HEC matches not involving England or English teams so you know little about non English players, hense the your perspective on these threads being so naive.

That's just offensive, based on nothing but your own preconceived prejudices, managing to combine xenophobia with generalisation and frankly merits an immediate withdrawal and apology



And more importantly it's plain false

It's not false.

How many pro 12 games did you watch this year? Do you even have a TV channel that cover pro 12?

4 (and that is the maximum extension of your argument, which also claimed that ALL English users on this forum watched no Pro12, no non-English HEC games and no non-English 6N matches, in ascending order of ridiculousness). No, I do not, neither do I have access at home to a television channel which would let me watch HEC rugby, or Lions rugby or AP rugby, but it doesn't stop me from watching those when I have the time either. Some English posters admittedly WUM and make statements about other nations' club games without evidence but so it seems do at least as many Welsh posters, and posters from every Nationality. Making universal absolute statements about those Nations would be just as out of order as what you just did. Now I'm off to watch the rugby, hope you enjoy the game, I'm not sure I'll be able to follow it as apparently I only watch the English players

Enjoy the game.

Hopefully you will learn a lot about the players you don't usually support.

[Cari]

Woo! Love Sky's opening credits with the clouds turning into Lions

[Cari]

Five minute delay to kick off due to the Lions getting delayed by traffic.

[Cyril]

True that. Plus English rugby is on Sky which not everyone wants/can afford

Every single English premiership game is freely available in full on the premiership website. Only go up after the game but it's usually within a few hours. Not sure if it'll continue next season

The point is none of you watch the pro12 or six nations or HEC matches not involving England or English teams so you know little about non English players, hense the your perspective on these threads being so naive.

That is pathetic, insulting, xenophobic and patronising. Well done. It's also untrue.

[Breadvan]

Spare a thought for us paupers listening in t'wireless....

[Steffan]

Come on Wales

[Cari]

Spare a thought for us paupers listening in t'wireless....

Bumm mer that, Van. Are you at work? Can't watch on a stream?

[Steffan]

Sorry meant come on The Lions

[Breadvan]

Yeh at work...sky+ highlights later. Enjoy the match all....

[thebluesmancometh]

True that. Plus English rugby is on Sky which not everyone wants/can afford

Every single English premiership game is freely available in full on the premiership website. Only go up after the game but it's usually within a few hours. Not sure if it'll continue next season

The point is none of you watch the pro12 or six nations or HEC matches not involving England or English teams so you know little about non English players, hense the your perspective on these threads being so naive.

That is pathetic, insulting, xenophobic and patronising. Well done. It's also untrue.

+1

There are some hugely knowledgable English fans on here, at least as many as there are non English.

I can see where MM is coming from, if I was English I wouldn't bother wacthing Rabo games either due to watching sub standard squads and fringemen constantly, so unless you had a vested interest in celtic development you wouldn't know a lot of up and comers.

Also celtic fans generally have a slightly better knowledge of other celtic players, it is just natural as we play each other so often and see the teams so often, not that I'm not saying that there aren't English fans who do similar, but I can't imagine there are many English fans who have watched 50% of the rabo games this year.

[Portnoy's Complaint]

Spare a thought for us paupers listening in t'wireless....

Bumm mer that, Van. Are you at work? Can't watch on a stream?

Bloody spoilt brats. Time was when there wouldn't even be a radio commentary. Any TV pictures would have been grainy filmed b/w extracts rushed back on aeroplane.

Apart from that, there'd be the score and nothing else until the newspaper reports filtered through.

[Scrumpy]

Guys can we just get over this hatred for a few weeks please!

Hatred

There is no hatred anywhere..!

There is a great deal of ignorance, using the word hatred defines that completely.

Get over it mate, Go Lions.

[thebluesmancometh]

Just watching Lydiate strecthing off..

How heavily strapped are both boots to his feet? Is that ankle support, foot support???

You sometimes see heavily strapped foot or so, but Ive not seen both feet so strapped before!

[Steffan]

I was hoping there would be more Welsh in team. Even with players from the weaker nations though I think Wales sorry mean the Lions will win

[maestegmafia]

There are some hugely knowledgable English fans on here, at least as many as there are non English.

I can see where MM is coming from, if I was English I wouldn't bother wacthing Rabo games either due to watching sub standard squads and fringemen constantly, so unless you had a vested interest in celtic development you wouldn't know a lot of up and comers.

Also celtic fans generally have a slightly better knowledge of other celtic players, it is just natural as we play each other so often and see the teams so often, not that I'm not saying that there aren't English fans who do similar, but I can't imagine there are many English fans who have watched 50% of the rabo games this year.

There are some hugely knowledgeable English fans, Chequered Jersey, who posted above is definitely one. And it is hard to fathom that all that support and interest comes while not having TV access to any rugby.

Though his post earlier just confirmed exactly what I said and you agreed with.

[RDW]

Anyone able to PM me a link?

[Scrumpy]

Anyone able to PM me a link?

Me too.

[Steffan]

English fans are ok and I just hope they can forgive us for stuffing them and ruining their premature grand slam celebrations and cheer on all the Welsh boys in the team

[jimmyinthewell68]

watching in pub cold pint Sun shining lions on

[flankertye]

I'd also love a link, should be a cracking game.
I expect Richie Gray, Tiperic and Vunipola to have big games.

[Scrumpy]

Steffan, it happens.

Someone has to win

[Breadvan]

English fans are ok and I just hope they can forgive us for stuffing them and ruining their premature grand slam celebrations and cheer on all the Welsh boys in the team

Ancient history. I've forgotten/blanked out 16/3... I'm sure you could raise a wry smile if one of the players from a 'weaker nation' scores.

[BigTrevsbigmac]

English fans are ok and I just hope they can forgive us for stuffing them and ruining their premature grand slam celebrations and cheer on all the Welsh boys in the team

Actually most Welsh fans are ok to. But the likes of yourself & MM don't do your fellow countrymen any favours!

Enjoy the game

[Steffan]

What anthem are they gonna play? I think we should have the Welsh one being as thats what most of the team is made up out of

[Pal Joey]

Look at all those Wels.... I mean Lions supporters.

[sickofwendy]

Talksport commentator just said Roberts and Davies pairing up in the 2nd row.

[Steffan]

Look at all those Wels.... I mean Lions supporters.

My brother is over there

Muggings by here is minding the dog

Im still trying to work that one out

[wickedwasp]

Help please

Stuck in Athens. Has anyone got a decent live feed for this match?

Pretty please

[Cari]

RDW check you PM shortly...

[Guest]

Mike Phillips playing quick ball!

[Cari]

Lions 3 - 0 Baas

[thebluesmancometh]

Farell good and bad there, nice attacking chip then good strike over, then a nightmare kick to the Ba's able to run onto!

[Cari]

Those who've asked for links...please check your inbox.

[wickedwasp]

Thanks Steffan - really appreciate it

[maestegmafia]

Too much pointless kicking.

Lions look great ball in hand

[thebluesmancometh]

Farells lost it!!!

Nightmare kick then pun ch?

[Cari]

Oh no...Farrell's lost his head. He really won't be starting in the test matches at this rate.

[thebluesmancometh]

What is Brits doing there??? Farells clip back was silly but Brits WTF???

[Pal Joey]

Volatile, eh Cari?

[Cari]

Britz off to the bin.

[Guest]

Glad it's not red. Any other time yes, but the lions need a good test against 15 so I'm happy with yellow.

[thebluesmancometh]

Red card Brits?

WELL DONE WALSH, YOU HAVE JUST SAVED THE MATCH AND START TO THE TOUR, GREAT REFFEREEING IMO

[trebellbobaggins]

Oh no.. Steve bloody Walsh.

Sponsored by spec savers. Could not be more appropriate.

That was an unusually sensible decision from the vein one though.

[maestegmafia]

Good decision by Walsh.

[Breadvan]

Nevermind getting punched in the grid eh cari...

[Cari]

Volatile, eh Cari?

I never said none of our lot weren't though Breaker. Between Mike Phillips and Farrell, we've got our own hotheads.

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