England cricket team give good luck message to the Lions.
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I don't think you need to be a Sportsfan to appreciate the comedy in this video[^]. Jimmy Andersons Scottish impression is class, and Swanns accents are good too. On another note I don't really get the point of these Lions tours, what's the point of making a team from a selection of the best players from 4 International Countries in order to face one international country? Surely the Lions would be expected to win just as a team made up of AUS/SA & Nz would beat England. Seems like a no win situation to me.
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I don't think you need to be a Sportsfan to appreciate the comedy in this video[^]. Jimmy Andersons Scottish impression is class, and Swanns accents are good too. On another note I don't really get the point of these Lions tours, what's the point of making a team from a selection of the best players from 4 International Countries in order to face one international country? Surely the Lions would be expected to win just as a team made up of AUS/SA & Nz would beat England. Seems like a no win situation to me.
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The first tour was a commercial venture
- should tell you all you need to know. Plus of course England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't real countries and only exist for some sporting events.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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The first tour was a commercial venture
- should tell you all you need to know. Plus of course England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't real countries and only exist for some sporting events.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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The first tour was a commercial venture
- should tell you all you need to know. Plus of course England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't real countries and only exist for some sporting events.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
ChrisElston wrote:
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't real countries
I take it you aren't planning on visiting Wales, Scotland or NI and saying that? :laugh: I think you will find some rather different opinions, expressed somewhat forcefully...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I don't think you need to be a Sportsfan to appreciate the comedy in this video[^]. Jimmy Andersons Scottish impression is class, and Swanns accents are good too. On another note I don't really get the point of these Lions tours, what's the point of making a team from a selection of the best players from 4 International Countries in order to face one international country? Surely the Lions would be expected to win just as a team made up of AUS/SA & Nz would beat England. Seems like a no win situation to me.
You have to remember that Lions sides are pretty much scratch sides, coaches and all, and with injuries that are always picked on tour, meaning players going out of and into the squad, they should never be able to be as well prepared as a single nation. You are looking at it far too simplistically.
Rhys "If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the Universe"
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The first tour was a commercial venture
- should tell you all you need to know. Plus of course England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't real countries and only exist for some sporting events.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I don't think you need to be a Sportsfan to appreciate the comedy in this video[^]. Jimmy Andersons Scottish impression is class, and Swanns accents are good too. On another note I don't really get the point of these Lions tours, what's the point of making a team from a selection of the best players from 4 International Countries in order to face one international country? Surely the Lions would be expected to win just as a team made up of AUS/SA & Nz would beat England. Seems like a no win situation to me.
On their own, the individual countries would not fare too well against Australia. Scotland for example, wouldn't beat the Vatican 7th XV. Collectively, they have a better chance. Remember, in the old days, the Lions would be away for three or four months so the tour reflected giving international players in those days a chance to play against opposition they'd not see for many years to come. I would agree that the Lions concept is diluted a little now because we have incoming and outgoing tours to both hemispheres. November, for example, is a busy time in the north when the southern teams travel there each year. Yonks ago, that was less likely. The Lions tour is as much a marketing opportunity now as it is a playing experience. The core of the Lions team reflects the relative strength of the individual nations. The Scottish players are a token. Richie Gray is a good club player and he excels in what you could say is a mediocre national team but at the highest level, he's not world class. Tomorrow, the Lions should win. Chelsea's soccer team has eleven very good players but they don't have a team. The Lions are a team and they deserve their win tomorrow, well, let's hope they do.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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ChrisElston wrote:
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't real countries
I take it you aren't planning on visiting Wales, Scotland or NI and saying that? :laugh: I think you will find some rather different opinions, expressed somewhat forcefully...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
To be fair, expressing this view in NI will only get you killed by half the community.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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On their own, the individual countries would not fare too well against Australia. Scotland for example, wouldn't beat the Vatican 7th XV. Collectively, they have a better chance. Remember, in the old days, the Lions would be away for three or four months so the tour reflected giving international players in those days a chance to play against opposition they'd not see for many years to come. I would agree that the Lions concept is diluted a little now because we have incoming and outgoing tours to both hemispheres. November, for example, is a busy time in the north when the southern teams travel there each year. Yonks ago, that was less likely. The Lions tour is as much a marketing opportunity now as it is a playing experience. The core of the Lions team reflects the relative strength of the individual nations. The Scottish players are a token. Richie Gray is a good club player and he excels in what you could say is a mediocre national team but at the highest level, he's not world class. Tomorrow, the Lions should win. Chelsea's soccer team has eleven very good players but they don't have a team. The Lions are a team and they deserve their win tomorrow, well, let's hope they do.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I don't think you need to be a Sportsfan to appreciate the comedy in this video[^]. Jimmy Andersons Scottish impression is class, and Swanns accents are good too. On another note I don't really get the point of these Lions tours, what's the point of making a team from a selection of the best players from 4 International Countries in order to face one international country? Surely the Lions would be expected to win just as a team made up of AUS/SA & Nz would beat England. Seems like a no win situation to me.
As an American, I can say that I know nothing about anything surrounding this video, but I still found it quite funny. The Scottish and SA bits were hilarious.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Not real countries? That's fightin' talk. And indeed, Ireland from the perspective of rugby teams is All Ireland, so players in that team already come from two (legal) countries (RoI and NI).
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You have to remember that Lions sides are pretty much scratch sides, coaches and all, and with injuries that are always picked on tour, meaning players going out of and into the squad, they should never be able to be as well prepared as a single nation. You are looking at it far too simplistically.
Rhys "If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the Universe"
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To be fair, expressing this view in NI will only get you killed by half the community.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
Or possibly, just half killed.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Or possibly, just half killed.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
Ireland - the Schrödinger's Box of country-denounciation. Can't be many times in history that has been written!
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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On their own, the individual countries would not fare too well against Australia. Scotland for example, wouldn't beat the Vatican 7th XV. Collectively, they have a better chance. Remember, in the old days, the Lions would be away for three or four months so the tour reflected giving international players in those days a chance to play against opposition they'd not see for many years to come. I would agree that the Lions concept is diluted a little now because we have incoming and outgoing tours to both hemispheres. November, for example, is a busy time in the north when the southern teams travel there each year. Yonks ago, that was less likely. The Lions tour is as much a marketing opportunity now as it is a playing experience. The core of the Lions team reflects the relative strength of the individual nations. The Scottish players are a token. Richie Gray is a good club player and he excels in what you could say is a mediocre national team but at the highest level, he's not world class. Tomorrow, the Lions should win. Chelsea's soccer team has eleven very good players but they don't have a team. The Lions are a team and they deserve their win tomorrow, well, let's hope they do.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Wales is a principality, Northern Ireland is a province (or an occupied territory if you like), they're no more countries than Cornwall is.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
