Did somebody order a Power of Four wristband?
On tuesday, Egg Chaser took a look at the forwards he expects to be jostling for position on the flight down under. It’s still a long way off, so we’re not all going to agree. One commenter even made a...
View ArticleSix Nations: Lions Coach Wanted. Apply Within.
We’ve had the World Cup, we’ve had the group stages of the Heineken Cup, heck we’ve even had some Rabodirect Pro12 League Mega Sized Action, but now all those terribly nouveau tournaments move aside,...
View ArticleLions 2013 – the Forwards
Put on your Power of 4 bracelets, park your xenophobia, marvel at the fact Andy Powell and Ugo Monye toured last time out, and brace yourself for cringeworthy archive footage of Iain McGeechan bawling...
View ArticleLions – The Backs
On Tuesday, we looked at the forwards putting themselves forward for Lions selection. Today we see which backs should start learning the words to Power of Four, the fondly remembered Lions anthem....
View ArticleNotes for Warren
On Tuesday, the news the world was waiting for broke at last. Warren Gatland is to be Lions coach. That sneaky fiver we put on Declan Kidney last week is lost to the wild. Damn! It was a no brainer...
View ArticleThe Un-Bolters
Come Lions selection, everyone loves the ‘late bolter’, the yet-to-be-established young gun that makes a last minute dash for selection through club form. What larks! But even more fascinating can be...
View ArticlePower of Three Plus One
Gatty has a history of throwing verbal bombs around (the Welsh hate the Irish more than anyone, for example), and he was at it again last week. The rambunctuous Kiwi, and Lions head coach, claimed that...
View ArticleThe Lions Tour – It’s Here
The Sky Sports montage of African lions cavorting around Uluru suddenly magically transports them to Sydney Opera House – they gradually fade away to leave an image of a slim-looking guy who bears a...
View ArticleLiiiiiiions – The Back Division
‘Immortality’ is just 24 hours away according to the Skyhype machine. You don’t even have to play well to be immortal these days, just getting named on a touring panel and playing a few non-test games...
View ArticleOutrage Bingo Cards at the Ready
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived; the Lions squad is out! Ultimately it was a slightly underwhelming announcement with few of the fireworks some expected Gatland to provide. The late...
View ArticleLion Kings
Something has been nagging at us recently – why are the Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiions favourites for the test series? On Betfair right now, the Lions are 1.7 and the Wobblies 2.6. We’re a bit confused. We...
View ArticleThe New Heinrich Brussow?
Back in 2009, when Ugo Monye and Andy Powell were Lions, and Ian McGeechan’s tears filled Lions training sessions and not Sky studios, the tourists opened with two pretty easy wins, against a “Royal...
View ArticleWazza’s World
Neil Francis said on Sunday that he would bet the house on Gatland naming a test backrow of his three Welsh golden boys Dan Lydiate, captain Sam Warburton and Toby Faletau. It’s the backrow which...
View ArticleWhat is Shane Williams Doing on the Lions Tour?
When WoC looked at its twitter feed yesterday morning and saw that Shane Williams had been called up to the Lions we had to check the date and make sure it wasn’t April 1. What the heck was Shane...
View Article[Drum Roll] The Test Team
The day we’ve all waited for is almost upon us. Gatty’s about to name his test team! Get ready with your most nationalistic, parochially driven fervour (where are the Ulster players! How come there...
View ArticleNerves-a-jangling
Warren Gatland has staked his money on the setpiece, and the Lions being ahead after an hour. In the marginal calls he’s gone for Tom Youngs for his better throwing, Alex Corbisiero for his...
View ArticleDark Side of The Moon
Watching the Liiiiiiiiiiiiiions match as Kurtley Beale lined up the sure-to-be-matchwinning penalty, it seemed the men in red were about to lose. We’d resigned ourselves to feeling disappointment,...
View ArticleReductive
Ha! What was our headline again? ‘Get Quick Ball. Use Quick Ball. Repeat’, was it? Joke’s on us. ‘Hoof ball. Chase ball. Repeat’ would be more like it. What looked, optimistially, to be a team...
View ArticleNumero Uno, and Triskaidekaphobia
There is one story today – Gatty. Brian O’Driscoll is mere collateral damage – Gatty has picked the team he wanted for the biggest game of his career. About the team, more anon, but let’s just consider...
View ArticleThe Internal Struggle
There was OUTRAGE of the highest order yesterday, after Gatty unceremoniously dumped you-know-who ahead of the you-know-what on Saturday. The OUTRAGE bubbled and boiled at the injustice of dropping...
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