/rug/ - Dead team, dead series, dead sport edition

All Blacks squad gets named Thursday morning.

LIONS MATCHES THIS WEEK:

>Wednesday 7th
Blues 22 - 16 Lions, Auckland HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>Saturday 10th
Crusaders - Lions, Christchurch

SUPER RUGBY:

>Friday 9th
Hurricanes - Chiefs, Wellington

OTHER:

>Saturday 10th
Australia - Fiji, Melbourne
Japan - Romania, Kumamoto
>Sunday 11th
Italy - Scotland, Singapore (lel)
South Africa - France, Pretoria
Brazil - Portugal, Sao Paulo
Argentina - England, San Juan
Canada - Georgia, Calgary
USA - Ireland, Harrison

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Arena_(New_Jersey)
punditarena.com/rugby/kkaczmarek/lions-and-blues-player-ratings-from-a-kiwi-perspective/
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

>USA - Ireland, Harrison
>Harrison

Which fuckwit country stole my name?

That Ihaia West try good lord.

Imagine if the all blacks played mid table pro12 sides

I just like to throw and catch the rugby ball

I am picking the Highlanders to crumble against the loins and resume their proper place as the shittiest franchise.

hahah boomfa

This one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Arena_(New_Jersey)

OK Blues Year Guy you've had your fun tonight, don't get a head of yourself

Just a game lads.

fucking throwing a blue steel right before the dab

*inhales*

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i'm looking forward to the maori all blacks match

>ooooooooo look at me I am a bad boy I got b& from leddit
I'm very impressed

k e k

how the fuck do you get banned on a site like reddit

See you on Saturday.

Not watching Hurricanes v Chiefs?

That's on Friday lad

Oh shit, that's important too.
Just it's the busy time for uni, things are slowly wrapping up.

Yeah, are you not watching it?

I am, just thought that was talking to NH posters

Shoutout to all of the women in Auckland who can take their kids to school tomorrow without wearing sunglasses. Love the Blues.

>muh Chicago

Twitter is fucking bullshit

Can you stop your bullshit on our hashtag?

Gonna chuck some dollarydoos on the pooinloosaders.

Odds will be better over here than nz

Even when it's 2030 after Ireland haven't won a single match against the AIGBs since, those paddies are never going to let go of Chicago.

Stop stealing our hashtag you cunts

Why are you in Aussie?

from the previous thread

>Halfpenny - 4/10
goalkicking was fine and fielded a couple of tricky kicks but offered nothing in attack and was caught out badly in defense for the decisive try (had the same thing happened to Hogg way more people would have complained about it)
>Nowell - 3/10
gets a sympathy point for managing to get Ioane into touch but apart from that got owned by him all game. Has lots of >heart but not quite enough speed
>Payne - 4/10
defense was decent but limited in attack. Should have scored that try
>Henshaw - 4/10
didn't do anything shockingly bad but didn't provide any energy or unpredictability to a backline that badly needed it either
>Daly - 4/10
didn't see the ball much and didn't utilize his pace to provide a decent kick chase
>Biggar - 6/10
looked pretty decent until he came off with a cuntcushion. Certainly made to look even better by what Sexton subsequently produced. The Lions were never able to really control the game at any point after he went off
>Webb - 5/10
decent quick passing and directed the forwards well but his kicking was aimless and gave the Blues lots of attacking ball
>McGrath - 7/10
carried and scrummaged strongly
>Owens - 6/10
aggressive at the breakdown and carried well. Lineout was a bit shit but not sure it was wholly down to him
>Cole - 6/10
busy in defense and hit rucks hard
>Itoje - 7/10
Lions strongest player at the breakdown and extremely aggressive in defense. Discipline was a problem
>Lawes - 8/10 MOTM
only Lions player consistently good in the lineout, defended well and carried well
>Haskell - 4/10
only Lions forward who was mostly pretty shit but still had a couple of decent hits and carries
>Blue Hat - 6/10
looked good in the loose and made his tackles but faded out of the game as it became more of an arm wrestle. Surprisingly shit at winning turnovers
>Stander - 6/10
Carried okay and was busy but looks noticably tired and slow compared to his 6N form

"In" """aussie""

Rooting gentlebens mum

Based.

Fukc, I forgot to adjust the clock. How was the match?

I an exceedingly angry that I didn't get a superbru email reminder to make my pick for this evening. I would have picked the exact score.

Lions won after a close match, Sexton arguably man of the tour

The quality of it was alright, but seeing the poms and paddies lose made it way better

blues year guy has ascended

Loins outplayed. Loins tight forwards were decent, save for a few discipline problems. But backs were extremely poor and loosies were mostly anonymous.

No HEEMs yet. 0/10 tour so far. 2013 was far better.

Imagine being a welsh

Thanks

>lions players were thugs and started fights
>lions players tried not once but twice to kill a man
>the lions didn't back themselves and took the typical easy 3
>despite trying their hardest the blues couldn't choke the victory
>sadly our shitiest super rugby team managed to win vs the super group of rugby
>Tana has now spare tackled the lions captain, team and all their hopes and dreams

The Hurricanes v Chiefs game will be all round better than this game.

Only people who feel the need to constantly bring it up here are Kiwis.

Hurricanes vs Chiefs will be more competitive than any of the Lions matches

The Hurricanes are going to absolutely obliterate the Chiefs, but you are far too stubborn to concede that

An All Blacks team that'd pretty much never played together? It's not as if England and Ireland wouldn't have won this game.

lol at the person that told me rieko ioane was a meme player a few weeks ago

where's your god now user

Little doubt: is Perofeta a maori adaptation for "Prophet"?

Explain why they struggled to beat a baabaas provincial team that had 5 days together

Still waiting for Rieko to perform against quality opposition

Englishmen always have problems with part time sportsmen

Inshallah, Sunni Billail Al-Waheed. Time to listen to the call of Jihad and join the Lions.

>standard life investments
Hmmmmmm

To be fair, England trounced the Crusaders a few years back and they were second that year. The same can't be said of Wales last year, gettng mullered by the Chiefs.

Having 15 or however many Welsh in the squad rather than a few more Irish or even Scots will be the downfall of the team.

So the banks must be removed from his All Blacks jersey, but this is okay.

Really engages my cognitive processes

isn't he only 19?

That Blues starting No 10 was dogshit desu, Gatland should start ahead of him in my opinion

punditarena.com/rugby/kkaczmarek/lions-and-blues-player-ratings-from-a-kiwi-perspective/

they gave stander AN 8

wtf

>14th of June, 2016
>being a Chiefs supporter

Everyone gonna bet big on the Crusaders to win then? I'm tempted to put a grand down.

haha boomfa

Why the fuck are Italy and Scotland playing in Singapore?

black is going to blues next year

Scotland

Free pizzas and free munchy boxes there

>The lines

>Mfw Lions loose two more of their warm up matches but then proceed to beat the All Blicks in the first test.

all smiles

Nope

If you cant beat their club sides you're not beating the national side

The loyins will be arse raped, no lube

Yeah, after you pay them the jizya extortion money

Singapore Sevens probably means there is an appetite for it.

Give me a quick rundown of the game lads. I'll watch it later but I already know the score.
Heard /ourguy/ Tipuric was good at least.

>Lose to Blues
>Blues All Black front row got completely BTFO by superior NH forwards
>Expecting even the likes of Rob 'wheres my attack' Howley to not find even a few attacking strats is delusional.

The fucking state of NZ rugby lads.

This guy gets if

>LAMO NH rugger
There you go lad

Is America as good at Gay-Football as we are at regular football?

All football is gay

But is America good?

Apologise!

No they are not.

For what? Being a slightly better captain than Owens?

am I one of you yet?

He was pretty anonymous in the first match tbqh.

Is he really the Captain though? Really??

Why is one of the positions in this game just called "8?" Did they run out of names because there's too many fucking positions?

I seriously doubt it, he's probably 'captain' because he speaks well in press stuff. Gatland has padded his career so much.

Loins fans really aren't realising just how much the ABs are better than the SR franchises yet. This should be great.

Dare I say that there is to much Welsh influence? Especially what happened with the Chiefs last year?

An English posted about it earlier, and I would be willing to agree that there should have been less Welsh present. But, Gatland only knows welsh and welsh ball since he taught it.

there are also positions 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15

How is one supposed to keep track of literally 30 players on the field at once.

teams usually wear different colours

and you just know people

I don't think this semen slurping sport is for me

People who watch and play the sport are intelligent

I think you're right

Give it to me straight lads, is it worth watching any of the remaining Lions matches, or are they just going to be humiliating blowouts?

pic unrelated

please watch our sport

>Give it to me straight lads
literally impossible m8o

you should watch them though

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Yeah everybody knows the real tour captain is the leader of men, Rory "Lionheart" Best.

Did you really watch the first 2 matches and come to the conclusion that the issue is the Welsh players?

>or are they just going to be humiliating blowouts?
I can't think of any other reason to watch them. Though it's getting a bit sad at this stage, I might just end up supporting the Lions out of pity.

Is Sam your bf or something?

I wish.

Is Rory Lionheart yours?