Lions Tour 2009 - South Africa
53The 2009 British and Irish Lions Tour is scheduled to take place from May to July 2009, with seven provincial games being played alongside the three-match Test series. It has been confirmed that the Test matches will be played in Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
The British and Irish Lions are a Rugby Union team made up of the best players from the home unions. (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales). The Lions typically tour the Tri Nations Countries of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. The most recent tours include the 2005 tour of New Zealand, 2001 tour of Australia and the 1997 tour of South Africa.
The 2009 British and Irish Lions tour is sure to be an exciting tour, as the host nation South Africa are the current Rugby World Cup holders. The Tour will be a hard one for The Lions, and History and odds suggest that they will struggle.
Top 5 Questions that will be answered during the 2009 Lions Tour of South Africa:
- Will the new variations of the ELV laws be a success?
- Can The Lions win their First Test since 2001?
- Can the Lions score tries...or will their score be devisable by 3?
- Can the Lions forward pack dominate the huge South African pack?
- Will inguries be the biggiest talking point? RE: 2005 Tour of New Zealand
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SuperSkyRockets 2 years ago
Well, the tour was fantastic wasn't it? An amazing spectacle showing off some incredible rugby. I still think it's an incredible shame that the Lions were ultimately unsuccessful, here's why I think this is so:
1) Injuries - just plain old bad luck for a lot of players, if Adam Jones (who WASN'T fouled by Bakkies Botha as he has said so himself) and Gethin Jenkins had stayed on in that second test things might have been different come the finish. Add to that injuries to Shanklin, Flannery and O' Leary before the tour plus Byrne, Stephen Ferris and Leigh Halfpenny during, things might have been different.
2) Tactics - the Lions backs were better than the Springboks, noticeably so. But what the Boks did better was play to their strengths, line-outs, breakdowns and tactical kicking. It wasn't always pretty, but it worked!
There are a myriad of other reasns of course but now the tour is over their analysis isn't that useful in looking at them too deeply. Ah well, bring on the domestic season!