The price for Jade Stadium Lions Test tickets was about NZ$270 (R1350) for the open stand and over NZ$400 (R2000) for the Paul Kelly Stand, if you were lucky enough to win the ballot for them!!!

I think you have little to complain about there.

OWING TO THE EXTREME GREAD OF SARFU(IN SETTING LIONS TEST TICKETS AT R1 140) LETS ALL NOT ATTEND THE 3 TRI NATIONS GAMES….THEY DESERVE TO GET WHAT THEY GIVE!!

This man is the one Safa here who talks the truth and has my respect.

Im not asking for his, but he definitely has mine.

It was the forwards in the end.

The Backs didn’t exactly shower themselves with glory but it all stemmed from the lack of momentum up front and over the ball.

he mihi miharo ki a koe ; He uri o Porourangi. Tai Rawhiti Te Aute, Go the Canes, Harrd…

Ricky Flutey. Go Bro! Chur nui

They are like those little boys that take their ball home when they get tackled hard.

they
were playing
under a
lunatic
aa appointed
political
coach

Absolutely, those armbands were most stupid idiotic gimmicks I’ve seen any rugby player wear anywhere, and it detracted from their focus, all the stupid hullabaloo about Bakkies all week long from J.Smit because he knew without Bakkies propping him from the rear, Sheridan was going to own him, and so he did.

They had a rugby game to win not some ridiculous holy high ground war of sentiment with their ridiculous armbands, didn’t prove stuff all to anyone let alone themselves. Lunacy.

The memo to referees and National Unions from the iRB, which I posted earlier in another thread, shows clearly that time has been called on players who think they are going to be allowed to charge into rucks that way in the future. This does NOT just apply to Bakkies. There are a number of other players who are going to be in for a rude awakening. Brad Thorn, Adam Thomson, Rocky Elsom, Jamie Heaslip and Paul O’Connel have all been guilty in the past of using this illegal and dangerous practice. Bakkies is just unlucky in that he has been made an example of. While some might argue that the “physicality” would be taken out of the game, I think that’s just BS. There is plenty of physicality in the game without players have to resort to using their heads and shoulders as the business end of a battering ram. Encroachers can be just as effectively “cleaned out” by binding and driving as they can by being hit with a flying head-butt, and with a far lower chance of sustaining a match, tour, season or career ending injury. Two players tried the “Bakkies” approach in this test, Kankowski and O’Connell, and both were penalised for it.

Dickinson will have included a reference to this in his pre-match briefing. The message has gone out, and the players (that mean ALL players in ALL countries) need to get that message, or they will spend a considerable amount of time warming a seat in the grandstand.

As for the “Justice” campaign, well, thats up to them. Personally, as coach, I would not have allowed it. They appeared so concerned about the feeling of “injustice” that they forgot they had a game to win. It distracted them from the task at hand. Those players didn’t look focused on beating the Lions. IMO it hindered their effort rather than helped it.

These types of campaigns rarely work, and can often backfire badly. In 2005, the Lions made a similar mistake over the BOD affair with Mealamu and Umaga. SCW and Alistair Campbell gave the media their “smoke and mirrors” show, and together with the British Media tried to run a smear campaign against Tana. Meanwhile, the Nation rallied around their skipper, and the AB’s concentrated on caning the Lions arses. 48-18 and 38-19 explained it to SCW far better than any reply in the media could have.

One can only conclude you’re probably around 3 rugby years old

Actually, I call childish using a Test match to air some ‘Justice’ campaign which, incidentally isnt for a tsunami or an earthquake or a nation of persecuted native peoples, but a fellow player getting a long overdue wakeup on his flying-headbutts.

Justice.

FFS

The singe most arrogant thing Ive seen ON a rugby pitch bar none. Shameful.

Corksucker

FFS grow up guys!!

Not against my team, loser.

But, yes, between our teams it was in fact 2-1.

And my team whitewashed em, stuck a hunner on them, and traumatised them with an inferiority complex forever. Until you came along.

And thats the thanks we get.

Cheers plonker.

2-1; reflect on that…