Speargate

June 26, 2005 10:03 pm General

So having managed to miss out on most of the Lions tour while over in Ireland, I came back pretty enthusiastic for the first test on Saturday night. It was a pretty odd experience being the only person in the local pub with a green shirt. Jo wore red, and we were engulfed by the sea of black. The match was pretty disappointing too, with O’Driscoll being stretchered off after the first minute having dislocated his shoulder in what’s now being dubbed as ‘Speargate’.

But in fairness, the Lions were amazingly poor. The forwards were poor losing a huge percentage of scrums, line outs, rucks and mauls. Shane Byrne had a mare, and got nicknamed ‘Chuckie’ at our table after the first 20 minutes. Robinson was terrible and Wilkinson was non-existant. It was nice to see Ryan Jones shining through, but he was mostly on his own. All pretty depressing stuff.

Still, there’s always next week, but I suspect the score would have been worse had it not been for the torrential downpours in Christchurch. Not to take it away from the All Blacks though – they were impressive and completely deserved the win.

Incidently, does anyone think that Clive Woodward looks like Mr Burns?

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