The British & Irish Lions of 2013 were named team of the year and Warren Gatland won the top coach honour at the 2013 BBC Sports Personality awards. Kiwi Gatland, 50, led the Lions to their first Test series win in Australia for 16 years.
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With the series poised at 1-1, his side crushed the Wallabies in the final match as they racked up 41 points in Sydney to secure victory in style.
Lion Leigh Halfpenny was one of 10 on the main Sports Personality shortlist.
Victory in the decider came after Gatland controversially dropped Ireland centre Brian O’Driscoll for the deciding Test.
The New Zealander admitted at the time that he wondered whether his role was worth the level of abuse he suffered, but has since hinted he might make himself available to lead the Lions against the All Blacks in 2017.
He has been Wales coach since 2007 and won two Six Nations Grand Slams in 2008 and 2012 and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 World Cup
Gatland stepped aside from coaching Wales last year to concentrate on his Lions commitments.
In his absence, interim coach Rob Howley led Wales to the Six Nations title.
58 @ Scrumdown:
Bryanston & Northcliff people think their own poep does not smell… but it does, same as you and me.
61 @ grootblousmile:
Difference is that in Kempton where I live you can’t smell your own poep because the “local” farmer, one Erasmus uses human excrement from the local sewerage works to put on his vast meilie fields. Hence all you can smell is the “sweet smell of sh1t in the morning” for a good few months of the year.
Mind you, you should see the speed those meilies sprout up at.
6o @ grootblousmile:
Agree, Cane was quite a decent type of chap. For an Antipodean!
63 @ Scrumdown:
I would have thought the logic would have been that if enough of them wakled over here, they could have their HOME here, a busy blog, their “Mates”, just without the fighting shit.
But maybe the fighting shit is what keeps them interested in general in Voldy and keeps them staying there.
I suppose each to his own…
Keo se comments is nou so deurmekaar soos kots in n tuimeldroeer!
There were some characters on Voldy. But I quit being a regular there when they started their anti Lions nonsense. I know the Lions played badly and the administration was up to ****, but they never had a good thing to say about the Lions, and it seemed as if they had a love affair with WP/Stormers.
65 @ nortierd:
Hello NorTIER,
Hoe gaan dit?
Goed en jy?
Sien Loftus se eerste wedstryd is eers die 1ste Maart, maar dan is daar darem so 4 in n ry. En die Aussie toets is n bonus @ grootblousmile:
66 @ Lion4ever:
To be fair, a number of Lions supporters left here too, perceiving Rugby-Talk to be anti-Lions as well.
But the thing is, the Lions deserved harsh crit at the time and it’s swings and round-abouts, next in the line of fire might well be the Bulls, if they do not pull their socks up.
Some Sharks also left here, because Lambie was lambasted this year, which he also duly deserved at times.
Before that Peter de Villiers was lambasted, at times Percy Montgommery and some Stormers were criticized… it happens.
Rugby moves in cycles.
68 @ nortierd:
No complaints!
To be honest, I have not looked at the schedules much.
Will be good to see the Wallabies at Loftus again, pity we can’t see both the Wallabies and All Blacks at Loftus… hehehe
66 @ Lion4ever:
The proble that I have is not how passionately ANYONE supports ANY team, but how they so STUPIDLY refuse to see that teams faults.
I don’t think you’ll find a more passionate Lions supporter thsan me, but I’m sure that you’ll also battle to find a bigger critic of the GLRU than me.
However, when things are done right, I’ll GLADLY give all of the praise applicable.
68 @ nortierd:
Good to see you here nortie, you also decided to walk across the rubicon?
@ grootblousmile:
But this site gave out fair criticism. Lambie did not have his best season. Pieter de Villiers has a remarkable talent for being criticised, and well, Stormers always flatter to deceive, and I have feeling that next year your boytjies will cop a fair amount of flack.
73 @ Lion4ever:
I hear you… but the fact is that certain people left Rugby-Talk as well because of critisism of their team or players in their team… and recently too!
A quick joke:
A lifelong Lions supporter gets up every morning, rubs his eyes and screams at the top of his lungs, LIOOOONS, LIOOOONS, komaaaan die vaal.
He then proceeds to pour his coffee into his red and white Lions cup, and eat his cereal out of his special TVL / Lions bowl that he won in a Highveld Stereo on line competition.
He attends EVERY game at Ellis Park, never leaving until the after match the autograph signing session is finished.
His wife is banned from the house whenever the Lions play an away game so that he can concentrate fully on the match on the TV.
One Friday morning the normal routine occurs, and the wife realises that the Lions are playing the Crusaders in New Zealand that morning, and she hadn’t made any plans to get out of the house.
As she sat at the breakfast table wondering what to do, the long suffering wife notices her husband muttering under his breath, going on about that blerrie New Zealand captain, and those blerrie Aussie ref’s.
She looks up at him and loudly proclaims, “I think you love the Lions more than you love me!”
To which he snaps back, “I love the Blue Bulls more than I love you!”
@ Scrumdown:
There is a fine line between being honest about a team and being vindictive. I have also seen Lions supporters being horribly negative about the Lions on another blog. I am probably the most passionate Lions supporter I know, but I am not blind to their faults, but many see only the faults, while others see only the positive.
But whether it the Lions or any other team, I like to see balanced reporting and commenting.
73 @ Lion4ever:
Nobody dare criticise WP and Stormers, I will haul out my Keo manners and cause a moderation list of words here!
@ grootblousmile:
Would have loved an AB test, but sorry, my mistake, it’s the Argies, not Aussies that will be at Loftus.
At least it’s a RC test.
I’m just looking forward to the Stormers game of course
@ Alles wat mal is<
Ha ha, I've been trying to figure out what is going on there, but I'm not a expert like you and GBS on the way these threads work
77 @ Alles wat mal is:
We’ll hang you by the ears, beware… hehehe
75 @ Scrumdown:
76 @ Lion4ever:
I’m glad you perceive it this way, because that has been the intention here on Rugby-Talk.
78 @ nortierd:
Ag kak… will have to travel then, to go see the Wallabies & All Blacks games!
76 @ Lion4ever:
Exactly.
If we are all blind to the faults, it’s impossible to fix them.
@ Alles wat mal is:
LOL
78 @ nortierd:
Mail vir Voldy, vra hom om net die Livefyre te kanselleer, dis sekerlik ‘n Livefyre Plugin op sy bestaande WordPress Platform.
Dan is hy terug by sy ou formaat (minus sy Livefyre comments).
Indien julle dit nie doen nie, sit ons netnou dalk met die hele Voldy se bloggers hier… gemors en al… en dan moet ek eers die besem vat en vee…
77 @ Alles wat mal is:
Most non WP / Stormers supporters don’t need to criticise them, they do enough self destruction that only their own “supporters” need to pass comment.
@ grootblousmile:
You’ll have to wipe a few faces if they all pitch here, they have marmite all over them, and Skippy peanut Butter, and grubby hands!
79 @ grootblousmile:
We’ll gladly sell you a ticket for the AB test.
I’m sure that KdK and Co. will let them go cheap in the interests of harmonious Rugby relations!
@ grootblousmile:
Ha ha
Ja nee kyk, daar is n paar karakters daar wat jy nie hier sal wil he nie.
85 @ Scrumdown:
Kevin will give me some tickets… in fact he asked that I send him some mail about Rugby-Talk, that day when I attended the opening of the Ellispark Rugby Museum!
84 @ Alles wat mal is:
Straatligkinders met attitude!
86 @ nortierd:
Sal jou en Alles vra om uit te wys wie kry ‘n tekkie oppiehol!
87 @ grootblousmile:
Hmmm. No comment was the firm reply.
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