Wallabies v Lions: 2nd Test Match Thread

What a joke, I just hope we lose now and never appoint a national manager again. Sad to say but I won't lie.

I'm Welsh, but Gatlands team selection is an embarrassment.

Phillips? Davies? Faletau? MISTAKE!!

Nothing wrong with Faletau in my mind, but the other calls........

Harsh on Falatau Vivec. I'm not a fan of his as I think he's high work rate, low impact but he's been better than Heaslip the last couple of weeks and deserves a go.

Don't really know what to say. I feel very little connection with this team. Much like i did with the first team that played the BaaBaas. It simply doesn't feel like a combined home nations side. It's Wales v The Wallabies and while under any other circumstances i would be happy to see wales beat them i really am struggling to give a rats backside about the outcome of this game.

Gatland said in his first press conference that it doesn't matter who takes the field that he was only concerned with the best players being selected and that if the 15 best were all English then he would choose them.

If this is what he considers to be the best 15 he has. Then he is a monumental idiot. We know he is not an idiot so the conclusion has to be totally and unashamed Bias team selection.

P.S.
The Wallabies have never been so fired up for a game. They are saying this is the biggest game in Australian rugby since the WC final in 2003. So lets see how this center partnership holds up against this Aussie attack. Honestly it really is sweaty bum time.

Twitter comments:

Dan Carter: “There must be some angry Irish out there waking up to see @BrianODriscoll not playing this weekend. #ShouldBeTheCaptain”

Matt Giteau: “Gee dropping @BrianODriscoll out of the team is a huge call.. For mine, he has been the stand out unsung hero this series.. Defensively huge.”

Brian O’Driscoll: “@giteau_rugby cheers man, hard one to take.”

Will Carling: “Jaw is still hanging open at Lions selection ……..!!”

Morgan Turinui: “Best Wallaby of our generation IN. Best Lion of our Generation @BrianODriscoll OUT. Most influential Lion @JonnyWilkinson absent. Advantage?”

Donncha O’Callaghan: “Harsh call by Gatland to leave O Driscoll out of the starting team, but out of the bench too #madness #Lions.”

Austin Healy: “So Wales v Australia it is then….hope then rain stops as the grass needs cutting Saturday morning.”

Austin Healy: “I actually thought BOD played well last week made some decisive big tackles…big call has Gatland panicked?”

Will Greenwood: “Incredible range of opinions re Selection... Gatland will do his own explaining but “Ballsy” re Bod is an understatement.”

****in' hell, Will Carling and Austin Healy expressing disinterest in a game against Australia!!!!

Carling especially, the man who was goign to have David Campese act as his butler in a bet over the 2003 WC final!

Hope Gatland knows what he's doing, the knives are really out!

Also, if O'Driscoll is saying that on Twitter, whats the mood like in the camp - 3 Irish players missing their captain, only 2 Englishmen, 1 of whom didn't make the initial squad both of whom are missing their captain and 1 Scot on the bench

Thanks for posting those twitter comments. Really interesting.

So deflated right now about the Lions. Gutted for BOD. He's a real rugby hero of mine and he was way better than Davies. He was our top tackler over both games... Think he made 25 of 25 whilst Davies missed 3 of 7 including the try

its a disgrace to leave one of the best NH players out which I have enjoyed watching play in my lifetime.

Its basicaly wales against the wallabies now.