Lions Tour

Thrashssacre

Well lads it's game day!, I'm surprisingly excited about this. Every Ireland player on tour in a match day 15, let's Hope the ones in hotly rested positions have a Stormer and give gatland a few headaches and sleepless nights come test selection time.

Jump_In_Jack

Kickoff at 3pm Irish time on Channel 4

Larbre34

And VirginM 2

Oh wait, its ****in Luke Fitzgerald.

C4 it is.

Larbre34

Miles Harrison is sick?

icdg

Larbre34 wrote: »

Miles Harrison is sick?

He is, or recovering - he might not have been doing this game anyway but he won’t be calling the games for Sky this time round (first time since 1997).

Shaka Hislop

Was G Van den Heever actually supposed to play this game ?

dublinman1990

Larbre34 wrote: »

Miles Harrison is sick?

He had colon cancer surgery earlier this week. He is going to be out from rugby commentary for a while as he is in recovery.

We wish him well.

lawrencesummers

Japan will be rusty but hopefully they can turn it on at some points in the game.

StevenToast

icdg wrote: »

He is, or recovering - he might not have been doing this game anyway but he won’t be calling the games for Sky this time round (first time since 1997).

Who is commentating for sky?

Also what rights to c4 and virgin have for the rest of the series?

Larbre34

dublinman1990 wrote: »

He had colon cancer surgery earlier this week. He is going to be out from rugby commentary for a while as he is in recovery.

We wish him well.

I hadn't heard. Hear hear.

dublinman1990

Conor McNamara is doing commentary on Channel 4 with Jamie Heaslip & Noelli Waterman.

icdg

StevenToast wrote: »

Who is commentating for sky?

Also what rights to c4 and virgin have for the rest of the series?

Hasn’t been announced yet. They are basically having to put the band back together having not had any live northern hemisphere rugby for a long time. Alex Payne and Will Greenwood are involved, but on the studio side.

C4 and VMTV will have highlights rights to the rest of the series.

Larbre34

StevenToast wrote: »

Who is commentating for sky?

Also what rights to c4 and virgin have for the rest of the series?

Sky aren't showing today's game and AFAIK today is all that anyone except Sky has.

It'll likely be Mark Patterson.

razorblunt

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Conor McNamara is doing commentary on Channel 4 with Jamie Heaslip & Noelli Waterman.

Heaslip, as always doing most of the talking.


Big Duhan got very lucky with his last gasp tackle earlier.

Burkie1203

Awj broken arm?

ongarite

Thats a broken wrist

Faugheen

AWJ is done. Gutted for him.

yerrahbah

What a dose for Jones

Larbre34

AWJ is in big bother and it looks like he could be one and done.

That's awful.

Shaka Hislop

Who's next on the call up list.... James Ryan?

razorblunt

Cheerio AWJ.
Dislocated thumb or elbow by the looks of it.

dublinman1990

It's not an easy game to watch so far. It's very physical.

It appears AWJ has broken his left wrist. Courtney Lawes is now in.

A-Train

That does not look good for AWJ there at all, his series could be over.

Squidgy Black

Ah shíte that's so disappointing for AWJ.

Who becomes test captain now I wonder?

Utopia Parkway

Tour over for AWJ. Before they even left for SA.

clsmooth

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Ah shíte that's so disappointing for AWJ.

Who becomes test captain now I wonder?

I reckon Farrell

Clegg

Conan and Henshaw are putting their hands up. Both been excellent defensively. Need to give them the ball in attack now.

bennyl10

That’s terrific stuff by Conan,

Lions done a great job of deal king with the break off runner so far

theVersatile

Shaka Hislop wrote: »

Who's next on the call up list.... James Ryan?

Shootout between him and Gray

Larbre34

clsmooth wrote: »

I reckon Farrell

Farrell, Hogg or Murray for me. Farrell likely fav alright.

dublinman1990

Biggar is back up after that big hit.

Larbre34

theVersatile wrote: »

Shootout between him and Gray

Robin McBryde will be pushing like all hell for Ryan.

theVersatile

Lions reviving the choke tackle, interesting giving the current tackle height environment

dublinman1990

Yes. Get in there Josh Adams.

yerrahbah

Gwan Bundee. Great finish by Adams

lawrencesummers

James Ryan scrambling looking for his passport

Squidgy Black

What a let off

tayto lover

Murray is too predictable.

Clareman

Murray looks like a lad who wants to have the summer off, penalty, free kick and block against him in the first 15 minutes.

dublinman1990

Get in VDM.

Clareman

Ohhhh Robbie Henshaw

Clegg

Henshaws already cemented that starting jersey for the first test. Best player in the pitch for the Lions so far.

Just don't get injured please.

razorblunt

Henshaw is having a brilliant game.

Squidgy Black

Clegg wrote: »

Henshaws already cemented that starting jersey for the first test. Best player in the pitch for the Lions so far.

Just don't get injured please.

Bundee's had a stormer too, that lovely break and won a turnover on the Lions 22.

Wouldn't be surprised at all to see a 10/12/13 of Farrell/Bundee/Henshaw for one of the tests depending on how Biggar goes

thomond2006

Japan are brilliant to watch. The Lions are getting a great run out. Contrast this with the Barbarians farce in 2013.

Larbre34

Dislocated shoulder for Tipuric?

Clegg

Jaysus what happened to Tipuric?

razorblunt

Ah jeez Tipuric not looking great either.
Shot on his ribs?

RugbyLover123

Jesus 21 minutes in and 2 lads off already.

A-Train

Tipuric gone now