What were they playing? Rugby?:06:

Correct.

Simply a game played by men (mainly) with funny shaped balls :03:

A brutal sport. The only one I know of that employs a "hooker":haha:
Congrats to the Lions. :up:

My dad used to play rugby...


It's always good to see a great sports match. :yeah:

Very little in the way of body armour as well :)

With that hooker in there maybe a condom would be advisable?:03::haha:

LOL :)

So close; I feel a little sorry for Beale, boy, is he gunna cop some stick tonight! That image of him slipping on the last kick'll haunt him for a while.

He'll feel bad but it wasn't his fault they lost, I think that if he'd started and cooper was in the squad the result may have been different today.

I tend to look at the first encounter as a warm up or tester session.

Always nice to get the first win but there are two more to go and your lot will be hurting for revenge.

For us in the uk and ireland its the perfect start, halfway to a series win it would now be a lot harder if they had just lost, but I think there may be some tweaking done by both sides oz will be very competitive in the remaining 2 as they always are.

Injuries aside, I saw a lot of positives for the Wallabies last night. Their defensive effort was first class and their scrummaging was much better than I've seen in recent times. I'm certainly more confident of a couple of wins than I was at the start of the game. Whatever the result it will be another two close games.

Go Gold!

Naughty naughty, uncalled for and absolutely not acceptable stamping on heads, cant believe he has been cleared by the citing officer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxw9WNhzhGg

Disgraceful :nope:

I cannot condone that sort of conduct, but I've certainly seen worse go unpenalised, uncited and therefore unpunished.

Agree with you there, but you kind of expect more from your captain and the citing officer

Just seen the squad for saturdays test, dissapointed that they have not changed one of the centres as they looked very ordinary in the first test, good call dropping phillips and cuthbert, cant understand the inclusion of lydiate who only really offers tackling over croft who is superb in the lineout and I still believe warburton did nothing to deserve selection on form, in the first test he was invisible except when talking to the ref.
Would not be surprised if we lose this one.

Bugger will miss it Saturday am at the toilet (work) but I will stick my neck out and say the Lions to win by 8 points :yep: