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Lizard · Post by **Lizard** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:07 am

The Chiefs game is on a Tuesday, so it will no doubt be the dirt trackers.

Buggaluggs · Post by **Buggaluggs** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 12:33 pm

joshfishkins · Post by **joshfishkins** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:32 pm

Nope, the English game will be 'revenge' and 'a chance for the boys to put the Twickenham nightmare behind them'.

I'm putting the quotes in now, to save Gatland the bother later. This tour is going to be car crash bad, as will next season due to player burnout. Still, maybe we won't have quite so many at the Lions as a result...

joshfishkins · Post by **joshfishkins** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:32 pm

Nope, the English game will be 'revenge' and 'a chance for the boys to put the Twickenham nightmare behind them'.

I'm putting the quotes in now, to save Gatland the bother later. This tour is going to be car crash bad, as will next season due to player burnout. Still, maybe we won't have quite so many at the Lions as a result...

Post by **Eugene Wrayburn** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:12 am

I suspect that your tour will have a tight first Test and then deteriorate to a bit of a blow out in the 3rd.

Post by **Sandydragon** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:27 am

Eugene Wrayburn wrote:I suspect that your tour will have a tight first Test and then deteriorate to a bit of a blow out in the 3rd.

Our experience with SH tours is quite the opposite. We start badly and get well beaten, followed by close tests thereafter. Our last tours to Australia and South Africa have followed this format.

If we start well it will make a welcome change.

gthedog · Post by **gthedog** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:32 am

They'll be more pain than champagne rugby

gthedog · Post by **gthedog** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:32 am

They'll be more pain than champagne rugby

Post by **Eugene Wrayburn** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:05 pm

Sandydragon wrote:
Eugene Wrayburn wrote:I suspect that your tour will have a tight first Test and then deteriorate to a bit of a blow out in the 3rd.
Our experience with SH tours is quite the opposite. We start badly and get well beaten, followed by close tests thereafter. Our last tours to Australia and South Africa have followed this format.

If we start well it will make a welcome change.

not many improve as they go through NZ tours.

Son of Mathonwy · Post by **Son of Mathonwy** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:28 pm

Eugene Wrayburn wrote:
Sandydragon wrote:
Eugene Wrayburn wrote:I suspect that your tour will have a tight first Test and then deteriorate to a bit of a blow out in the 3rd.
Our experience with SH tours is quite the opposite. We start badly and get well beaten, followed by close tests thereafter. Our last tours to Australia and South Africa have followed this format.

If we start well it will make a welcome change.
not many improve as they go through NZ tours.

We do. Under Gatland we've always improved as tours progress, even against NZ (2010).

Lizard · Post by **Lizard** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:19 pm

Son of Mathonwy wrote:
Eugene Wrayburn wrote:
Sandydragon wrote: Our experience with SH tours is quite the opposite. We start badly and get well beaten, followed by close tests thereafter. Our last tours to Australia and South Africa have followed this format.

If we start well it will make a welcome change.
not many improve as they go through NZ tours.
We do. Under Gatland we've always improved as tours progress, even against NZ (2010).

Improved, but never quite enough to win. A fourth test v Aussie in 2012 would have been interesting.

Son of Mathonwy · Post by **Son of Mathonwy** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:50 pm

Lizard wrote:
Son of Mathonwy wrote:
Eugene Wrayburn wrote: not many improve as they go through NZ tours.
We do. Under Gatland we've always improved as tours progress, even against NZ (2010).
Improved, but never quite enough to win. A fourth test v Aussie in 2012 would have been interesting.

We'd have lost by half a point.

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