Haha my feelings exactly

Mike William heart rate was going through the roof

Lol, absolutely nailed it mate!

same.

As an unbiased Welshman I think he's one of those greats with plain feathers but flies like an angel.

Well said Josh. The Lions are/is? Something special. Four great, proud nations fighting as one.

@@Makethemostofit1 Well Welsh Kings did once rule England and France. But yeah the UK is strong together.

Same

Let's bring this corrupt government to its knees

That’s nice. Hate each other in other walks of life / religion / sport however it’s convenient when you can get a pool of 90 m people together

I imagine it’s his ringtone.

TPRM1 hahahaha

What did he say?

@@louiescfc2960 "don't react to anything...promise me"

And in 2017 it took 4 Nations to draw against 1 with only 4 million citizens! Pretty pathetic.

@@atethr8327 by that logic the Barbarians should win every game they play

@@lourensstrydom1502 calm down mate. It was a joke. But yea I wouldn’t make it anywhere

Stolen by the ref at the end reversing a clear penalty for accidental offside. All Blacks would still have had to kick to win.

@Howard Hassen Lions had five games against club sides before the first test. All Blacks only had one warmup game against Samoa.

TheSmithersy yeah, the lions played great, especially considering their dismal performance against the super rugby teams.

Yes, but it definitely should have been a NZ penalty at the end there... Even though i was not supporting them!

Agree, the wide shot of both squads and knowing the all parked their grevences and had a beer together wins the day.

@@jeeveso NZ won a false penalty when Warburton fairly won the ball in the first half - so really, NZ got lucky

Raedo the paedo

it'll be a heartbreaker if it gets decided the same way as this one... if you know what I mean...

Too much money involved, it won't be..

I've seen a post on facebook few days ago by SA Rugby Magazine that next year's tour is confirmed and tickets can be booked

@@Mad_Intalect stupid thing to say

@@Bull599 I’m due to go with my school, we’ve heard nothing yet but time will tell, fingers crossed it’s sorted out

nothing great there swearing and swearing

ohh noooo..... swearing in pro sport 🤣

Rugby is the 5th or 6th most popular sport over there.

@@brendaalbert4492 5th or 6th even more impressive.

@@TB-bh8tj If Rugby was No 1 in Oz they would kick the all black butts every game.

@@brendaalbert4492 Nó, sorry.

The Lions have to come together from scratch. No years of combinations to draw from so dont big yourself up...

Agreed. From an Englishman. Faletau too. AND Sanjay. (AWJ goes without saying.) I ended up being in the very strange position of being *glad* that Chief (Manu) and Billy were injured, because I couldn’t see how they could have played any better than your two boys. (I know it’s “us” when it’s the Lions, but it’s not a Lions’ year. 😉) Edit: Sorry, I have totally just assumed you’re Welsh, there!

i miss this davies

He was indeed!

@@TPRM1 You are 100% correct

@@Tahrman Cheers 👍🏻

Hopeless really, they should beat a tiny country.

The very best of 4 countries vs one? Also, you could say the same of Southern Hemisphere teams in the Autumn Internationals?

Rugbyprof But they’ve never played together before and hardly anytime to gel. Come the end of a ridiculously long NH season, the players are on their last legs. They play way more games than their SH counterparts.

Rugbyprof The very best of four countries means nothing. It’ll play some part but if you’re bringing that up the Barbarians should win all their games.

gr8kooks I mean yeah, they do have a population of 60 million together, whereas us kiwis had 4 million at the time, but still they played great.

Your wish has been granted

All blacks didn’t have a decent leader to stand up

Jamie McSkimming still tho, lions did great.

One of the greatest achievements by a Lions team, IMHO.

Thank the French ref for the win

@@anthonycorboy5122 I take your point. Such a margin call. *But* one could argue that Kieran Reid took someone out (can’t see whom - AWJ? Sanjay?) in the air just before the offside, and one could also argue that the ball literally landed in the sub prop’s (forgot his name) arms, then he *immediately* dropped it. Any *slight* movement towards the ball was purely reflexive, not pre-meditated. So, accidental offside, no different from if the ball had hit him on the back and bounced off. I.e, scrum to All Blacks. To be clear, I am saying that *both* calls could have gone either way, so a scrum New Zealand was probably a fair decision/outcome. Yes, I have thought about this a lot... Happy to debate it (respectfully) further, if you so wish. PS Also remember, at every breakdown, the ref could give at least three penalties to each side! EVERYONE is offside, and EVERYONE plays the ball on the floor. The best refs call it even and let it go.

Warbuton really is an amazing captain, knows how to talk to the ref. Kieran Reid on the other hand, especially right at the end, was nagging at him. Not doing himself, or the kiwis any favours

@@rd-ec1nm as a kiwi was never a fan of reid being captain, would of rather had sam whitelock instead

Please god we will hopefully the pandemic will be eventually gone by then please god in 8 years time

There is a 2017 lions uncovered DVD this video is a snippet from it!

Read was offside anyway.

@@xpat73 you're right

Backwards out of the hand. Couldn't be offside, impossable. Ha ha from a Lions fan point of view of course.

Read was offside and took him in the air. Offshide at Kick Off and England penalty straight in front on half way with Elliot Daly there. Unlucky not to have a chance to win. Re the offside, overhead camera shows the ball did not go forward so was not offside at all. Fair result over the match.

Took a send off and a bad call in the 3rd to stop the 3-0

@@shaunnz7444 but the send off was justified though, or are you contesting the blatant shoulder charge to the head?

@@elscruffomcscruffy8371 he ain't saying the send off was the bad call, he's saying the accidental offside was. with a penalty awarded, NZ could very well have won the series 2-1. however I do agree that the red card was justified -nasty ass shoulder charge to the head

The entire kiwi contingent didn't expect a 3-0 win. We expected a hard fought series and good footy, Game 1 and 2 showed that, game 3 should have, but sadly it ended in a whimper with a terrible decision which the IRB later admitted as much. But hindsight is so over rated, As a kiwi I would've loved to have won the 3rd game, and could have lived if the Lions did as well.

I thought that was currently South Africa? Typical Kiwi, seemingly incapable of giving any NH player any credit whatsoever.

Currently is the Safa’s (and rightfully so) but look at the world player of the year winners, only a couple of NH players in there.. look at the world rankings (dominated by the SH) . The facts are the facts mate

@@mattfitzbizdr I always say SH has more pure talent than NH. No arguments. However, I have a massive issue with Barrett getting WPOTH that year. He was bang average. I'm English but I'd have given it to Jonathan Davies. He was immense throughout the series. It wasn't Barrett's fault but it struck me as lazy journalism, I mean just for one Retallick played superbly and would have been more deserving. Oh and I am not thrilled with the draw!

I've lived down in S.Island NZ for 21 yrs and you are a classic NZ supporter

Is that for all your sports you play in ENZED?

TOM BOM indeed, Abs are the greatest in all sports.

@@Skiwi685 if you forget the springboks (current world champions), or England for that matter if you count the 2019 world cup. just saying....

Pretty sure the Lions have a worse winning record than the individual countries do, almost like the Power Rangers combining to make a worse MegaZord.

Everyone who read this comment is now 10x more dumber after reading it

Do you need someone to explain to you how competitive sports work? Or put another way... you have to be delusional to think that the All Blacks deserved to draw or win this series.... won the first test well enough, thuggish behaviour saw them lose a man in the second test and fluffing kicks saw them drawing the last. But it's always the refs fault, isn't it? Come on, man, even Jonathon Kaplan said that Read should have been penalised for taking out Williams in the air, and if Poite had done that, the Lions would have hoofed the ball upfield and actually could have come away with a win.

@@Karma-qt4ji FYI Kaplan pointed to law 11.6 - which states "when an offside player cannot avoid being touched by the ball or by a team-mate carrying it, the player is accidentally offside" - and was baffled at Poite's decision to award the All Blacks a scrum instead of a penalty in the 79th minute. "This is something I cannot understand and seems completely wrong - it appears ludicrous to change your decision after agreeing it with the TMO," he added. "I would, though, say I have huge sympathy with Romain as this was a high-pressure, volatile situation, and it may be his command of English was not the best at this time. "He was, though, technically wrong to use the TMO to check for offside - although he may have done so in the best interests of the game, which I have no issue with. But what many people, even those outside of New Zealand, will not understand is how he came to reverse that decision." Food for thought?

@@Nineteenseventy2 You are very selective in your quotations and I see you have steered well clear of the bit where Kaplan says Read was at fault. Let me remind you.... quoting from an article on stuff.co.nz "Kaplan, the most experienced test rugby referee of all time, said that call was "ludicrous" and "technically wrong" but argued that All Blacks captain Read had made an illegal challenge in the air. Lions fullback Williams fumbled Beauden Barrett's kick off after Owen Farrell had levelled the scores at 15-15 at Eden Park, and Owens was initially penalised for being accidentally offside. Kaplan disagreed, saying Read was the guilty party with an illegal challenge in attempting to gather the ball from the restart, Kaplan wrote in the Telegraph. "I would argue that Williams had already taken the space in the air and that Read could not win possession from where he was, even with an outstretched arm," Kaplan wrote. Romain Poite initially awarded the All Blacks a penalty before consultation with the TMO led to a change in call. The South African said Read's intervention caused Williams to knock on and if the referee had identified this, the ensuing penalty for the Lions would have ended any controversy on the matter." If the Lions had been awarded a penalty and even gone on to win the game and series, few neutrals would have batted an eyelid. Blame would have been apportioned to the performance of the team on the day (how many chances did they butcher in this game???), the discipline of the team (aka SBW and his red card), Barrett's goal kicking abilities despite Hansen being questioned about this after the first test, and a few other peripherals. No one would be talking about this one decision and putting the entire outcome of the series on it's shoulders. In other words, even staunch New Zealand fans would have (after a few days of grumbling about the game going soft) accepted the decision and moved on.

@@Karma-qt4ji Not selective at all, you had already stated that previously, No point bringing it up again, I was just giving you the other side of the coin as it were. And these are Jonathan Kaplan's own words as were the one's you pointed out.

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