v AB'S - First Test

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Where's Haskell? Lions need to dominate back!
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Banquo wrote:self inflicted wounds
This. Its actually been a lot like watching Scotland from about 3 or 4 years ago. You know the players have the skills and abilities but they just arent producing it consistently against an opposition who are coherent and well drilled.

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It was so much easier to blame Them. It was bleakly depressing to think They were Us. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
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this may now get ugly
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good job the lineout has been so good
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Superb from Maro!
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zer0 wrote:The Lions scoring off counter attacks and the All Blacks off bulldozing scrums? Seems like sound empirical proof that the Earth has, indeed, flipped its poles.
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I imagine the All Blacks will be doing a few more lineout drills than normal next week.
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The expert analysis on Sky is doing my head in.
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Donny osmond wrote:
Banquo wrote:self inflicted wounds
This. Its actually been a lot like watching Scotland from about 3 or 4 years ago. You know the players have the skills and abilities but they just arent producing it consistently against an opposition who are coherent and well drilled.

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Fair point. I was thinking that all the lions seem to be playing pretty well. They're just not clicking and the all blacks take advantage of any friction. Perhaps it always was too much of a tall order
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Feels like 2005 again
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Big D wrote:Must be approaching 20 missed tackles which is way too much.

Cheap turnovers are killing them too.
huge number of tackles though (20 from 162!)- the ABS percentage is actually worse. But yes, you can't afford so many.

Murdered on territory and possession so far- we have coughed up too much easy ball.
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Come on Lions!!!!

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WaspInWales wrote:The expert analysis on Sky is doing my head in.
there's expert analysis? :o
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great, another top piece of subbing.
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Blimey, a penalty for blocking. He'll start calling them for taking out defenders next. Things are looking up. Now, if we could just stop coughing up the pill we might get somewhere.
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FFS. Have to say, great work Whitelock.
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WaspInWales wrote:The expert analysis on Sky is doing my head in.
I wish i'd found a stream with nz commentary. Then i could hear what Marshall thought of things.
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Game over.

They're on another level when it comes to taking any chances.
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oops...sanjay....

fooked. And actually mullered tbh- better lineout, but that's it. Lose momentum and you are fooked.
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Ioane looks nippy..
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cashead wrote:We burgled that try. Not much more Watson could've done there.
he gassed Daly, so is uber quick
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Due to not having had sky for the last 12 years I had forgotten just how up himself Barnes is as a commentator. Apparently the big "secret" of AB rugby is how good their basic skills are.

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Such a well oiled machine. They hunt in packs to win the breakdown, they're there in force to support team mates either for an offload or hitting rucks. They all know what to do and when to do it.

Fair play, they're just a very, very good team, full of very, very good players.
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Banquo wrote:he gassed Daly, so is uber quick
The Bus has been upgraded to a Ferrari.
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eergh. nice hands to nowhere
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