Lions want more games
2 Jul 2009
British & Irish Lions CEO John Feehan wants the tourists to play 12 matches in Australia in 2013.
The Lions had 10 games in South Africa this year, including the three Tests, which meant coach Ian McGeechan had little time to find his best Test line-up.
‘I think we need more games, not less,’ said Feehan, who rejected former Lions hooker Keith Wood’s call for seven-match tours involving smaller Lions squads. ‘I don’t believe if there had been less games on this tour we would have performed nearly as well when it came to the Tests.
‘We had six games to prepare against an exceptionally good Springbok side and came within a hair’s breadth of doing it and I would argue that if there had been an extra two games, we possibly would have won the two Tests.
‘We currently have an agreement for 10 games [for the tour of Australia in 2013]. Ideally if we could get that up to 12 that would give us much more time to prepare. We will be talking to the bodies concerned to see if it can become a reality.’
According to the Daily Telegraph, preparations for the tour of Australia are already under way and Feehan hopes the schedule will come under discussion when the Lions committee meet in September or October following the completion of a detailed report into the tour of South Africa.
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2 Jul 2009, 12:05 pm
Sadly, these pussies have tarnished their reputations with their constant bitching and complaining. Even when Vickery was CLEARLY destroyed by the Beast, they used the ref as an excuse, when it was so obvious what the problem was!!
Enough is enough now. Front up! You lost the series. You were out-muscled in the first test, your were beaten black and blue in the second. Be gracious and a role model to others who want to follow in your footsteps.
2 Jul 2009, 12:15 pm
Old but still veeeeery funny….
It is 1899 and General Edward Fatbottom and his 1000 English troops are riding through the bush looking for the Boers.
All of a sudden this raggedy scruffy individual jumps up from his seat on a koppie. He yells down to the English, “Hey Soutie, come up here so I can kick your arse. Or go back to England you bunch of useless fairies.”
So the General loses his temper at this impudent Boer and tells his 2IC to send 10 men up to sort him out.
Off go the English, a huge commotion breaks out, dust clouds and hair flies. After about 2 minutes the Boer comes back out into sight dusting himself off with his hat. “Is that all you have?”, he shouts down. “Go back to England you pansies. Here you will just get beaten like the women that you are!”
So the General sends another 30 men up to silence this loud mouth for once and for all. Again with the dust clouds, loud shouting and swearing. Cries for help. Eventually it quietens down and the Boer once again emerges. His shirt torn, hat askew…
“Is that it? Do you want me to come down there and kick ALL of your arses at once? You lot are pathetic!” he shouts.
Losing it completely the General orders a 100 men up the koppie! “Come back with his head or don’t come back at all!” he screams.
This time a monstrous noise erupts, clods of earth and rocks fly through the air. Trees are uprooted! Pieces of uniform fly through the air! Then, one Brit troopie comes crawling over the hill. All ragged and bloody!
“Its a trap!!” he yells, “Its a trap!! There are two of them!!!”
2 Jul 2009, 12:26 pm
#52 EEE: Those were Bakkies and Bryan’s grandfathers. Nothing’s changed, we just do it on a rugby field now.
2 Jul 2009, 12:32 pm
#53 Sage: and they still have not learnt!!!!! hehehehe
2 Jul 2009, 13:29 pm
Alternatively they should play three games in Argentina, maybe followed by a test against the Pumas and then go to Australia.
2 Jul 2009, 15:47 pm
#55 King Shark: Now that sounds like a good plan – and it will give the Pumas some much needed big game exposure and money.
2 Jul 2009, 17:34 pm
Lions, I have news for you … No-one wants to play you whinging wets anymore. You create a soap opera episode after every loss, and going on your success rate, thats a whole lot of episodes. Go back home, with your tails between your legs and come back when you have grown a pair!
2 Jul 2009, 23:39 pm
#10 bok1906:
Well at least you can walk the streets at night and not have to carry a loaded gun with you.
I work with 2 South Africans and they have told me the same stories.
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