Why are you posting about sports people in a rubby thread?
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What a fucking joke.
Two captains lifting the pretend trophy.
Lions group seem like a very decent bunch of people.
@GeoffreyBoycott - please get your saw out and bring half that DHL Cup back home to sit with the Tom Richards Cup, please.
Top, top bantz there between the captains
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How twee.
Well done Gatty and staff. Mistakes have been made, it’s probably impossible not to make them on a Loins tour, but you don’t win a series in Australia and square a series with New Zealand without creating a great spirit in the camp and doing a hell of a lot right.
Warren Gatland is a misunderestimated man.
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Why was that offside ruled ‘accidental’, when your man stuck his arm out to catch the ball?
Who knows. Basically if he had no chance of avoiding it it should be accidental offside but not sure that was the case
Was a baffing sequence. Gives a penalty. Looks at tmo, makes a correct decision that the ball was competed for. Then all of a sudden changes his mind on the penalty. I’ve never seen a scrum given in a situation like that. Especially after he already indicated a penalty. Clusterfuck, but that’s rugby officiating for you. New Zealand media will be going apeshit.
And that folks, is a microcosm of the game of rugby. After all the hype, a complete anti-climax.
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Doesn’t just look at TMO. Has a discussion and all agree that it was a pen and then change mind. If he had given a penalty against Read for barging in the air he would have been wrong, but it would still have made more sense than what he did IMO
Anyways. Fuck em. They get plenty of those in their favour
Be surprised if isn’t a bit of hoo ha about AWJ head injury break too. He was gone for 25 mins or not far off it. A nice little breather and back on with scrum under the cosy. Rule says 10 mins (of real time not match time) or change is permanent
@Tassotti - I drank a can of Harp during the second half this morning.
I’ve just cracked open my second and last one.
I think this will be the first quarter of a British Isles smorgasbord for me today.
First the Harp, then a bit of Scotch, then I’ll spring a leek, finishing with roast beef for dinner.
And I might even have a pint of the black stuff this evening in toast to our opposition.
That’s the way we do things in rugby football.
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No one knows the rules 
- But it’s ok, because they are all great guys and everyone gets along.
The Archbishop of Banterbury. 
A bit like hurling, so, mate.
Sport was the real winner this morning. A tremendous series that will live long in the memory.
Hurling has two rules, mate - Put the ball over the bar and in the back of the net and no more about it - it’s like the walk of life, you get out of it what you put into it.
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Not so, mate.
Remember that time Donald Cusack lay on the ball at the end of a Cork-Waterford match and nobody had a clue what was going on?
After the referee ran up to the Ard Conhairle to consult the rulebook, the game eventually ended as a draw and everybody shook hands afterwards.