British & Irish Lions v Australia 2025 - Test 2

It made my lip tremble, Becs :(

Oh no, Pakie :(

I see both Wayne Barnes and Nigel Owens are saying the ref got that call at the end right.

Not that he's a ref but I see David Campese also agrees saying he also thought it was perfectly fine as well.

These laws are so ambiguous. Morgan went straight down, arm immediately supporting his bodyweight, so he was off his feet. Genge second man in, knee straight to the ground, off his feet. For me, simple penalty if nothing else, lawbook says you have to stay on your feet when joining a ruck or breakdown.

Applying the logic of saying this call was right to the game at large, that means anyone can dive in on the ball/jackaler and seal it off.

I'm probably too stupid to get it, but even in the live comments on the game before it was checked I called the two players off their feet for the Lions, it was that obvious.

Aussies lost the game way before this of course as I already opined above, but these calls just confuse me all to heck. It's like the lawbook just gets thrown out when convenient, and refs make up anything - like the "both arms wrapped" call on Earl in the first test which was a clear and obvious fabrication by the ref.

David Campese is in agreement of something ?! My goodness me. Hell may now start to freeze over !

Well most refs now a days , are mostly worried about Owen Farrell butt fucking them…he openly admitted he likes butthole pleasures:)

A real sick perverted fuck….is this what English Rugby is becoming??!!

What ????

MP is demonstrating the meaning of the term "out of left field" for you, Becs.

I think you’re right, Pakie !

Lighten up you guys….just a bit of gags and giggles….fag boy is proudly English:)

Nothing wrong with the winning try. Tizzano should have been carded for play acting.

He is proudly English, Mpower…….and good for him !

The play acting hurt his cause, but I don't see how people can be so clear cut about this incident. Slow it down to frame by frame and you can see Tizzano's head being folded onto his chest - the "shoulder on shoulder" argument is bullshit, it was head, neck and then shoulder once the head was out of the way. Secondly both Lions went straight off their feet. I see no distinction in the laws saying "players joining the ruck must stay on their feet unless the jackaler is so low that he can't be removed except by going off their feet." Letter of the law, penalty. Start with mental gymnastics like "oh but look how low he was, how else could he do it" and you can spin it any way you want. Watch Morgan's clearout at the ruck one or two phases before the incident and see the difference between that one and the contentious one.

And then there's the equal argument that Tizzano joined from the side, which also has merit.

But anyway, game was lost by Aus in the last 10 minutes of the first half and in the atrocious tackling/defense by players like Wright and Ikitau, and the lack of a flyhalf who could take control of his backs and manage the game.

The biggest issue was the lion’s player dived on his neck with all his weight, not binding.

But Tizzano,s acting hurt is not as good as Nic White,s drop to the ground after Faf,s Love tap:)

Sorry if I upset you Becs….. have a nice Brandy and Coke:)

You didn’t upset me :)

I can’t drink, Mpower :( Take too many medications :(

Happy you not cross…not so nice with a lot of medication. Hope there is not a lot of side effects…

Hope you have a lovely day Becs.

Just as I thought none of you know fuck all about rugby. Ref made the right call no foul play look at the 5 rucks before every one had contact at some point to the head. Were they called? Nah but fuckin moaning Turunui has a gut spew cos this one wasn’t called in the 79th minute.

Jumping out of the ruck like a fucking ballerina made it look worse..

thank fucking God a ref with brains and you lot need a few ha ha

boo fucking hoo

D!ck!

I think blackboy is Denny...

for a couple of reasons... one being very obvious!

Thanks Mpower……hope your day is going well too :)

My day was not bad, was quite warm here today about 23 degrees sunny…went for a motorbike drive along the coast.

Am I confused, but this thread had a different heading yesterday and a part of today?

Plummers did you change the heading?

Glad to hear it, Mpower. Sounds like a good way to spend the day :)

I’ve just watched my second cousin play for his school, NSB, against Boland. They lost :(

Ok that’s interesting, I was born in the Boland….Lekker Boland Boytjies and sorry for the loss.

Boland is usually a bunch of massive farmer boys, that will run over you like a Bulldozer….

What does NSB stand for?

Am I confused, but this thread had a different heading yesterday and a part of today?

I think the Admin changes it to be more search engine friendly, it's happened to some of my threads too.

Oh that is a coincidence Mpower ! Yes, they were bigger boys than my skinny lot :)

Northampton School for Boys is their name.

Oh ok, thanks Pakie. How long is there tour in SA for Becs? I am sure they will do better next game.

I’m not sure, Mpower. They’ve already won one, lost one. Today, there were three matches throughout the age grades so I don’t know how the other two teams got on. I only watched that one :)