Gatland defends Lions meet-up after Saracens criticism

'Most controversial call ever': Tizzano no-call lingers over Lions series win

SadersMan 15 minutes ago

No I don’t. And I don’t hate either team.

JGM76 22 minutes ago

I'd say this is about more than the test mate,

Critics of rugby say its laws are arcane and that its values culture is sanctimonious.

It's difficult to disagree with them when a player who enters a ruck with no intention to stay on his feet escapes a penalty because he hadn’t quite hit the ground at the moment he contacted an opponent ….. on the back of his head….. which is also supposed to be illegal.

'Most controversial call ever': Tizzano no-call lingers over Lions series win

JWH 24 minutes ago

You need to go and watch the replay sadersman. Directly to his neck and flying in off his feet. I hate the aussies as much as the next guy but I hate England and Ireland more.

If that had happened to Tom Christie you would be losing it and calling for a ban mate that simply isn’t in the spirit of the game.

RW 25 minutes ago

When your jackling law states your head cant be below your hips so you can take it either way

'Most controversial call ever': Tizzano no-call lingers over Lions series win

JWH 27 minutes ago

If it was such a good clear out why did rugbypass delete my comment criticizing it? They are trying to silence dissenters and it’s ridiculous.

Jac Morgan went fully off his feet to hit Tizzano square in the back of his head with shoulder on head contact.

If an aussie had done that to say Tom Curry, and gotten away with it, it would’ve been the apocalypse, Armageddon, people demanding the referee and all his assistants resign as well as the TMO.

That has been a penalty since 2015. Might as well throw out the rule book if referees won’t enforce it anymore

This is why world rugby is being sued. The laws demand player welfare, but when refs get paid off they don’t enforce it properly.

JGM76 29 minutes ago

Writing as a Lions fan either the Morgan clear out was a penalty on at least 2 counts or all the critics who say rugby laws are arcane and inconsistent are correct.

1) He went off his feet to dive into an aussie legitimately contesting the ball. What is the point in making sealing off illegal if the actions which lead to the ball being sealed off are not?

2) he contacted the aussie on the back of the head.

This series deserved a meaningful 3rd test.

Aussies can feel very aggrieved in my opinion.

'Most controversial call ever': Tizzano no-call lingers over Lions series win

JWH 30 minutes ago

I thought he was pretty good most of the night but those scrums with Genge and that last call really ruined it for him. Also rugbypass deleting my comment is not helping the case for Piardi. They are trying to cover it up. Disgusting behavior frankly

'Most controversial call ever': Tizzano no-call lingers over Lions series win

JWH 32 minutes ago

No porter was just too slow to get up and furlong also too slow to cover the gap. Fair play to him

JWH 34 minutes ago

If his chin was nearly on the ground then he was off his feet. Clear and simple. You cannot make direct contact with your should to someone’s neck or head.

JWH 35 minutes ago

I don’t see how it’s theatrics he got hit in the back of the head by a 110 kg flanked diving in at full speed. That hurts. Wouldn’t have been put on the big screen if he hadn’t fallen backwards like that either way so fair play I say.

Wallabies player ratings vs British & Irish Lions | Lions series

NK 51 minutes ago

Italian roots, maybe he watches Serie A and gets inspired. Tbf, he played well otherwise.

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AF 53 minutes ago

British & Irish Lions player ratings vs Wallabies | 2nd Test 2025 Lions series

This has to be sarcasm. I mean they were ok. But did not “show up defensively unlike the other three quarters”.

Keenan 50%

Lowe 50%

Aki 69.2%

Jones 83%

Freeman 100%

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BC 59 minutes ago

'I thought it was a brilliant clear-out, honestly - didn’t you?'

It’s only in the Aussie' player’s dramatic and theatrical imagination that there was head contact. Did he go off for an HIA? Or have one afterwards?

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BC 1 hour ago

'Gutted' Joe Schmidt makes feelings clear over match-deciding call

A one-eyed Kiwi as well as loads of one-eyed Aussies.

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DJ 1 hour ago

What World Rugby say about Dan Sheehan's controversial Lions try

See the last paragraph of World Rugby clarification 3-2022

World Rugby Passport - Clarification 3-2022 which reads

“In principle, in a try scoring situation, if the action is deemed to be a dive forward for a try, then it should be permitted. If a player is deemed to have left the ground to avoid a tackle; or to jump, or hurdle a potential tackler, then this is dangerous play and should be sanctioned accordingly”.

As I said, 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. World Rugby needs to clarify their clarification! So did Sheehan leave the ground to avoid a tackle? If so, then Sheehan should have been penalised.

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SB 1 hour ago

Many Springboks fans are saying same thing about the Lions

We won't mention 1996, because it didn't happen. It was 1997. 😜

Yes, we lost the 1997 series on the field, fair and square, no denying.

However, anyone who has done their research would have known that between the 1995 RWC victory and the record winning streak that started in 1997 under Carel Du Plessis, that SARFU was in a full blown crisis. Administration was a shambles, provincialism was rife, professionalism was ultra-disrupting. Ultimately, we conspired against ourselves, on account of so many key people that was involved in that disastrous two years.

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Hazzaar67 1 hour ago

Its funny but if a Brit so much as yawns he's called a whinger when in actual fact the Aussies are the biggest moaners on the planet when things don't go their way