The Maori Mauled and Marginalised
By The Spotter If the Rotorua International Stadium were a giant hangi pit, then the Lions mauled and dug the Maori into its deep depths on Saturday night. Dominant and powerful[…]
Tagged: British & Irish Lions
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Lions memories. Loveridge’s Test
In the history of All Blacks v Lions tests there has always been a special place in New Zealander’s hearts for the second test of the 1983 tour. The All[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 16 June
Occasional All White Tommy Smith is engaged to be married, and there really is nothing cheesy about this at all. New Zealander Ben Stokes facing the media when things were[…]
Crusaders Quelled and Out-Thought Crusaders 3: Lions 12.
By The Spotter Suffocated; big time. As a spectacle for any new neutral it would have been dire to watch as it all morphed into something across between the Indian sport of Kabaddi with a lot[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 9 June
Snapshot in the family album. Daddy what else did you leave behind for me? The Lions strength is their set piece. Trailing the Blues by six they had an attacking[…]
A Blue Night Out
By The Spotter More vegetarians than meat eaters. Out SBW, plumb in front. Lions Rover stalls on Planet Rugby. Puss in Boots. Whatever way you might headline it and should the Crusaders vanquish[…]
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The Provincial Barbarians 7: The Lions 13
By The Spotter If that performance against the NZ Provincial Baa-baas last night isn’t going to count as the Lions’ worst tour performance, then surer than yet another moronic tweet from that dunce[…]
There’s Life in the Old Dog Rugby yet; Pride, Great Tries and Lousy Lovers
By The Spotter It was nigh on forty long years ago that I fell in love with Rugby and the All Blacks. It was Saturday, 18 June 1977 to be exact and it[…]
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The Cold Hard Reality
The details of the British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand are out and there is some justifiable outrage from the South Island. For the first time since tours[…]
