HEADING TOWARDS the first Test, the British and Irish Lions have an encouraging win against the Waratahs and a lacklustre loss against the Brumbies as inspiration for the first shot…
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Lions 2013: 5 Things We’ve Learned. Lions v Brumbies
THE LIONS registered their first loss of the tour with a 14 – 12 defeat against the Brumbies. Prior to this game the Lions had been able to rely on…
Lions 2013: How do you solve a problem like the lineout?
THE STATS don’t make good reading after the British and Irish Lions 14-12 loss to the Brumbies. Despite their win the Brumbies carried 23 times less than the Lions, with…
Lions 2013: Flattery gets you everywhere
WHEN MIND games start it is hard to know which tact to take. Overuse of saccharine sweet compliments, describe the opposition as clueless or just call everyone cheats? Well, when…
Lions 2013: 5 Things We’ve Learned. Lions v Waratahs
THE LIONS recorded their fifth victory of the tour with a 47 – 17 win over a depleted, yet competitive, Waratahs team. But whilst the margin of victory was similar…
Summer tours: England’s crib could be better than Argentina’s…
WINNING TESTS is one thing, but to do it with young, exciting players is another. For the second Test against Argentina, Stuart Lancaster has selected an explosive and sprightly backline…
Lions 2013: The silliness around spying
SOMETIMES THINGS go too far. Like the private joke said aloud too often or the headlines whenever a football team scores six goals, talk of spying, spies and undercover Aussies…
Lions 2013: O’Driscoll and Roberts, side-step brothers
THEY STARTED out as Six Nations enemies, but since the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, centres Brian O’Driscoll and Jamie Roberts have been spilling over with…
Lions 2013: Should the Lions tour France?
EVEN THE biggest, fiercest, proudest Lions supporter would find it hard to dispute that so far the 2013 tour has been a let-down. Not quite a farce but verging on…
Summer tours: Scotland’s slide before South Africa
A BEATLES B-side, Helter Skelter was said to be the song that started it all for heavy metal. “When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top…