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**Official** 2005 Lions tour of New Zealand
- Thread starter Tim
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As usual I was wrong !!Blaze said:
Great performance by the ABs, particularly to score 14 points (2 converted tries) when down to 14 with Tana Umaga sin binned. The Lions were struggling to keep up from thereon and they were kept in the game by Jonathan Kaplan to some extent and Stu Dickinson (touch judge) -who brought out a few controversial calls against the ABs resulting in 1 try being disallowed and a penalty being turned around etc.
But otherwise the game would have become too boring and one sided !!
What a fab solo try by Rico Gear at the end !!
I think Lions will find it hard to take many positives from this tour. Felt sorry for their fans who deserved better and Sir Clive has no excuse for wasting the amount of money he did to take a 3/0 drubbing . I hope their home unions will analyse his performance and expenditure incurred thoroughly and get more accountability from him .
Sir Redman
State Vice-Captain
Stupid poxy scummy work! I only caught the last 10 minutes of the game and was bloody surprised when I heard we'd had 2 players sinbinned. I'm trying to watch it on tv 3 now but its just not the same
BoyBrumby
Englishman
I'm not denying that for one second, but no professional sportsmen is ever going to turn round as say "Sorry boss, I think you should pick X ahead of me, I'm not up to it just now.". The buck stops with Sir Clive: he selected the teams (with a very one-eyed pro-English bias, admittedly) so he has to take responsibility.nibbs said:
He's f*cked up before now, of course (99WC Quarter-final when he picked Paul Grayson ahead of Jonny having said "Judge me on the world cup" & several Grand Slam deciders) but all was forgiven after 2003. We'll have to see how he goes in Football.
Sir Redman
State Vice-Captain
Yep, he's a moron that one.nibbs said:
Oh and Jason, you're lucky there isn't a Lions tour prediction thread. You'd be on about -500 by now
open365
International Vice-Captain
he never said 'judge me on the world cup',thats a hugely mis read quote.BoyBrumby said:
he said 'whether we like it our not,coaches are always judged on how well they do in world cups'.
clive was always going to be too ambitious for a lions tour,what he did with england took 5 hard years,he had 6 months with the lions and it shows.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Well regardless of the wording I think the implication was the same: he was the coach, about to play in a world cup, coaches are judged on how they perform in world cups....open365 said:
SCW has made a rod for his back with his unorthodoxy; when it comes off he looks like a forward-thinking radical, when he comes unstuck he looks a fool. Taking Campbell has gotta be seen as a gross error of judgement now. He isn't a Rugby man &, whether he likes it or not, comes with a lot of negative baggage.
I have to be honest tho & say I doubt whether any Lions coach could've overcome the ABs with the personnel they have just now; they really are looked different gravy at the moment.
