LIONS RAW

My copy just arrived on blu-ray (the version with all 3 tests and tour hilights)


Anyone else watched it yet ? I'm up untill the eve of the first test (Mrs wanted to watch TruBlood  )

Very impressed so far, good unity and banter in the squad

You haven't got up to the bod incident yet clearly

LOL. GE, there's another BOD thread just started which could i am sure benefit from your insights.

Has it got up to MP's Kylie Minogue joke?

Not yet, though I heard Corb's rapping and seen Lydiate/Phillips and Hogg breakdance  

The Zebo phone call was very funny. Also the extras on the second DVD are really interesting.

Watched all of it now, very good, never seen Lydiate or Warbs shout like that before, very intense stuff.

Just finished watching the main DVD, haven't got to the extras yet. A bit disappointed to be honest. It was well produced (in terms of camerawork/quality etc) and I think they covered the drama of the last test quite well but with the exception of a couple of little funny snippets, was pretty bland. Probably just the nature of professionalism and there being a limit on how much you can show these days but it just didn't have any access to the difficult selection meetings, team nights out, conversations between players etc that have been a highlight of previous documentaries. Not terrible by any means and maybe some of this is on the extras but it was just a bit vanilla.

On an aside did anyone think one of the opening scenes when they were talking about selection for the tour party was rehashed, probably once they were home and realised they didn’t have any footage of it? Seemed a bit rehearsed and rushed to cover the controversial selections but might just be me being a cynic!

Its going to get less and less 'fun' as tours get more professional.

Saying that, there did seem to be a lot of camaraderie despite them being there just to win.

The Extras are pretty decent - lots more behind the scenes stuff

The dvd also puts all the "Gatland hates BOD/irish" to shame as well. Because he clearly says (about BOD) to the entire squad before the 1st/2nd test "If anyone in international rugby deserves this, it's him".

I enjoyed 97s Living With the Lions and it seemed natural - but not watched one since. Clips I have seen from various places of later tours suggests everyone knows the cameras are there and play to it.

gcBlues wrote:The dvd also puts all the "Gatland hates BOD/irish" to shame as well. Because he clearly says (about BOD) to the entire squad before the 1st/2nd test "If anyone in international rugby deserves this, it's him".

.... deserves what? To be dropped?

That is what he got.

Because he didn't perform in his 2 outings  

Lydiate really shocked me with his speech. Was brilliant to see him like that.

It's a good DVD. Not really funny so much. Kind of wish they hadn't given away the Zebo phone call, as that would've been even better to watch as a new thing. Rob Penney seems a nice bloke though.

Just on second test. Obviously saw on the sky thing how passionately Warburton spoke before the first test, well he did a good job for the second too.

Sin é wrote:

gcBlues wrote:The dvd also puts all the "Gatland hates BOD/irish" to shame as well. Because he clearly says (about BOD) to the entire squad before the 1st/2nd test "If anyone in international rugby deserves this, it's him".

.... deserves what? To be dropped?

That is what he got.

 

gcBlues wrote:The dvd also puts all the "Gatland hates BOD/irish" to shame as well. Because he clearly says (about BOD) to the entire squad before the 1st/2nd test "If anyone in international rugby deserves this, it's him".

What a difference a week makes eh?

rodders wrote:

gcBlues wrote:The dvd also puts all the "Gatland hates BOD/irish" to shame as well. Because he clearly says (about BOD) to the entire squad before the 1st/2nd test "If anyone in international rugby deserves this, it's him".

What a difference a week makes eh?

That point has already been covered on this thread by Sin  

Having just watched the third test, they do a good job of selling it so dramatically. There's a lot more I'd liked to have seen like watching them training (weights and on the pitch), as well as more of the funny stuff. I guess there's more on the extras.

Good start to the extras already.

Mako's welsh accent gets a thumsup  

not bought it yet but will do soon .how about sin and rodders , you guys getting a copy

Sam Warburton's new book is due out soon and being previewed/serialized in Wales on Sunday this weekend. I have no details at all on what is in it and would not dream of asking those I know, but the newspaper blurb in todays Western Mail is interesting and it looks to be about the Tour and captaincy.

When's BOD's book about being dropped?

Pretty disapointed TBH, the one in 2009 was a much better DVD. Possibly because of the access to the difficult selection meetings and of course Geech giving the rousing speeches.

The Saint wrote:When's BOD's book about being dropped?

It's actually going to be a motion picture starring Sly Stallone as BOD, Russell Crowe as Gatland and Timothy Dalton as Howley. Really looking forward to the now infamous coffee scene....

Mickey Rourke is making a cameo appearance as Gareth Thomas because it doesn't look like the movie about Gareth will be made now. And Rourke has already done all the groundwork to make himself look exactly like a 30something year old player, so the producers didn't want to waste the footage.

SecretFly wrote:Mickey Rourke is making a cameo appearance as Gareth Thomas because it doesn't look like the movie about Gareth will be made now.  And Rourke has already done all the groundwork to make himself look exactly like a 30something year old player, so the producers didn't want to waste the footage.

Wouldn't you just love to hear him trying a welsh accent?

lostinwales wrote:

SecretFly wrote:Mickey Rourke is making a cameo appearance as Gareth Thomas because it doesn't look like the movie about Gareth will be made now.  And Rourke has already done all the groundwork to make himself look exactly like a 30something year old player, so the producers didn't want to waste the footage.

Wouldn't you just love to hear him trying a welsh accent?

Should get lessons off Mako  

munkian wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

SecretFly wrote:Mickey Rourke is making a cameo appearance as Gareth Thomas because it doesn't look like the movie about Gareth will be made now.  And Rourke has already done all the groundwork to make himself look exactly like a 30something year old player, so the producers didn't want to waste the footage.

Wouldn't you just love to hear him trying a welsh accent?

Should get lessons off Mako  

Poor guy - Still I suppose it is treatable  

I'm sure he'll havde any Welsh flair coached out of hi, aye