British and Irish Lions vs Combined Country XV, Tues 11th June, 10.40 am, Sky Sports

thomond2006

Lions getting sloppy

Buer

Chabals Beard wrote: »

How is Murray playing?

Quite well. Linking well with his back line and popping up around the place. With that said, he's still not moving the ball away quickly enough to push himself ahead of Youngs, I think.

Another line out faff. Best throwing but not his fault. POC is the biggest issue in the line out. If he's not there, there's little in terms of a proper line out leader.

Spudmonkey

who_me wrote: »

Any chance of Zebo getting any game on tour? North and Halfpenny seem almost certainties, Cuthbert sounds like he's doing poorly and Hogg's pace is hard to leave out.

(Still, can't wait to see his big cheesy grin when he arrives in Oz)

He's there, I thought I saw him in the stand beside the other lads.

JRant

Can't see BOD playing 80 today and making the Saturday team. 2 games in 5 days would be asking a lot of him.

leakyboots

Chabals Beard wrote: »

How is Murray playing?

Done very little wrong, knock on early in the game, made up for it with a chargedown, got a try, made one great break and has kept play ticking over. Good day at the office

trouttrout

Toby F butchered a try, awful hands from Davies before that too

Buer

Well there's Faletau's test shot gone. Simple pop pass to SOB and Murray inside him for a walk into the line and he pops it to nobody.

molloyjh

Only half watching it (in work) and missed the first half, but the second half has been very sloppy from the Lions. Poor handling and poor passing in particular. Pretty disappointing tbh.

jamiedav2011

SOB lucky he got over there because in a 'real' game he would have been snagged and that should have gone.

thomond2006

Great tackle to stop BOD, SOB gets in.

leakyboots

SOB is lucky he got that try, he had AWJ outside him

Dave_The_Sheep

jamiedav2011 wrote: »

SOB lucky he got over there because in a 'real' game he would have been snagged and that should have gone.

Exactly. If he hadn't made the line, he'd (rightly) have been absolutely slated.

spank_inferno

Cheeky wink from o'Brien to McCartney

trouttrout

ah jaysus, just give it him!

matthew8

Come on give him the try.

19543261

Dont know how to really feel about this. Boring.

leakyboots

Barnes bigging up his lovechild Croft again

Kiwi_knock

Ah no try

trouttrout

What the hell was Davies at there? Awful pass, and that kind of distribution is the reason he won't be in the test side

irishbucsfan

Aww...

Buer

So many handling errors. Sloppy from JD on that occasion. Kurtley Beale wouldn't have slapped that down and would have been under the sticks.

Dave_The_Sheep

Knock on? If it comes off his hand, hits no one else, then you kick it before it hits the ground, is that a knock on?

A2LUE42

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Knock on? If it comes off his hand, hits no one else, then you kick it before it hits the ground, is that a knock on?

It hit the ground before he kicked it.

jamiedav2011

Another shocker from Rory.

Kiwi_knock

Come on Combined Country

matthew8

jamiedav2011 wrote: »

Another shocker from Rory.

Looked like it went straight through AWJ's hands.

Come on country, pushover try.

jamiedav2011

A2LUE42 wrote: »

It hit the ground before he kicked it.

Doesn't matter anyway I think. Knock on is a knock on no matter if you kick it. Think it has to be a kick on purpose to be counted as a kick if you get what I mean.

A2LUE42

Noooooooooo

trouttrout

Is Croft injured or something that he wasn't considered for today/

A2LUE42

jamiedav2011 wrote: »

Doesn't matter anyway I think. Knock on is a knock on no matter if you kick it. Think it has to be a kick on purpose to be counted as a kick if you get what I mean.

That is the case, but sometimes you can argue that it was an intentional kick and not a knock on that you kicked. In this case it hit the ground anyway.

Buer

trouttrout wrote: »

Is Croft injured or something that he wasn't considered for today/

Went off with knock to head last week. Possible minor concussion.

stackerman

Phoenix Battye

This lineout could start to really become a problem.
AWJ should have taken that one, but the confidence in the lineout is drifting quickly.
AUS will target same and make life far more difficult.

trouttrout

This scoreline is far more embarrasing for the force than the combined country

Buer

Lions trying the old decoy in midfield and Cuthbert coming in off blind wing that Wales are so fond of.

A2LUE42

Why is BOD still on the pitch?

thomond2006

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Why is BOD still on the pitch?

All the subs have been used.

Swan Curry

I don't think it's a coincidence that Best's two throws to Evans were successful and his two throws to AWJ,who's had trouble holding onto the ball all night,weren't.

spank_inferno

I'd rather they play the last few mins with 14 and get BOD off.

shuffol

Maitland the big winner today.

A2LUE42

thomond2006 wrote: »

All the subs have been used.

Crap. Missed that.

Buer

Aside from Halfpenny and Grant, none of the subs have done their selection prospects any favours.

irishbucsfan

Poor Rory just isn't looking 100% in the loose either.

jamiedav2011

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Poor Rory just isn't looking 100% in the loose either.

Nope, looks lacking confidence completely.
Not in test 22 for me at the moment anyway.

Buer

shuffol wrote: »

Maitland the big winner today.

Yup. Has really put his hand up today. Awful opposition but his lines, handling and linking have surpassed what Cuthbert has shown by a distance.

trouttrout

Bit of class from BOD to finish up

jamiedav2011

Quality from BOD.

SlickRic

BOD reminding everyone again how good he is.

stackerman

Phoenix Battye

It's behind you BOD LOL

leakyboots

Great stuff from The Great Man

ongarite

BOD showing he is one of the key men for the tour.