2025 British and Irish Lions Tour of Australia

[joey_jo_jo]

Prendergast/Ireland had a shocker last weekend. I was getting a bit confident after the november tests that maybe the timing was right with ireland getting old, Scotland as erratic as ever, england finding their feet and Wales in a pit of despair.

Before last week I thought I went early with the ireland call, as they had looked good in the first 3 rounds of the 6 nations. Now im getting a confident again haha.

I cant wait to see who Farrell selects for the Lions squad, feel like its really wide open in a lot of positions. I reckon Russell will get the 10 gig now, he will play alot better with Bundi Aki outside him who can take the pressure of him like Sione Tuipolotu did prior to getting injured.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Now that the tournament is over:

• Ireland really limped to the finish line after looking back to their best early.
• Wales had 2 ok games with the new coach but were overall pretty shit.
• Scotland are Scotland, never live up to the pre tournament hype
• everyone was initially down on England even after wins against scotland/france with most of their fans saying it was unconvincing. But they looked pretty strong by end of season and I feel if they played Ireland now they would win.

 

[manureid]

Ireland disappointing last few games. Looked like world beaters after England but the warning signs were there in the Wales game.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Ireland disappointing last few games. Looked like world beaters after England but the warning signs were there in the Wales game.

I looked at a couple of teams of the tournament lists that were published today (Planet rugby and the telegraph) and they had 2 and 1 irish forward in the 15 respectively (no backs in either). I reckon it wouldve been a much different story after week 2.

 

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[DidakDelight]

I’m a massive Finn Russell highlights fan. But it’s the highlights that do it for me.

His clangers are fatal and if the Lions play with as their prime I reckon it might haunt them. (I’m thinking Carlos Spencer picked off by Stirling Mortlock type fatal)

What a hard decision, Russel, Fin Smith and Prendergast

 

[Hoop1888]

Our problem has been our backs creativity in attack for the last couple of years & that revolves around Andrew Goodman being appointed Ireland's backs coach - & was named as The Lions backs coach. I felt Leinster regressed in attack when Goodman was our backs coach - early on you'd see a couple of well worked plays, but after that we were very flat & seemed to lack any game plan out wide.

I hate pin pointing one coach or player as a reason why a team is not doing well, which is neither the case with Goodman, but during his time with Leinster he had the guts of the Irish backline to coach, but nothing ever changed or evolved. It'll be interesting to see how he does with the Lions in a short space of time.