RedFruit

Sorry – I had technical problems and missed most of the match.  Seemed like it was going to be a good [...]

Final Score: Cheetahs 24 – 26 Lions

Watching the Lions of Saturday gave me an unpleasant sense of Déjà vu.  There have been so many times in the last season watching Bath (or listening on the radio) when they squandered a strong lead.  When the Lions were 20 – 0 up, I thought that this was going [...]

Final Score: Golden Lions 10-74 Lions

We must now rethink the possible cause of saturday’s weak performance. Perhaps it was the altitude or maybe it was simply that the combinations didn’t work. What is much harder, in the light of last night’s Lions game, is too suggest it was simply lack of cohesion or ‘gelling’ [...]

Final Score Royal XV 25 – 37 Lions

Many will claim that the Lions were lucky to have won their first match, but that’s not the way  I saw it.  The first 30 minutes aside, I thought the Lions were clearly the better team.  The problem was that their accuracy was poor – which isn’t entirely a [...]

It begins!

Lions team v Royal XV:

Lee Byrne (Ospreys/Wales), Tommy Bowe (Ospreys/Ireland), Keith Earls (Munster/Ireland), Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues/Wales), Shane Williams (Ospreys/Wales); Ronan O’Gara (Munster/Ireland), Mike Blair (Edinburgh/Scotland); Andrew Sheridan (Sales Sharks/England), Matthew Rees (Scarlets/Wales), Adam Jones (Ospreys/Wales), Simon Shaw (London Wasps/England), Paul O’Connell (Munster/Ireland – captain), Joe Worsley (London Wasps/England), Martyn Williams (Cardiff Blues/Wales), Andy Powell [...]