{"id":263054,"date":"2025-07-14T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:01:09","slug":"1-10-four-players-who-flopped-this-weekend-including-underperforming-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263054\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/10: Four players who flopped this weekend, including underperforming Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was a dramatic weekend of international rugby action, with several nations putting on dominant displays in their friendly fixtures. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Ireland\u2019s 106-point demolition of Portugal to Uruguay\u2019s shock 70-8 thrashing of Romania, there was no shortage of headlines. But while some players soared, others failed to deliver on expectations \u2014 including a key British &amp; Irish Lions player who was a shadow of his usual self despite the team\u2019s 48-0 win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekend Results \u2013 Friendly Internationals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Fiji<\/strong>\u00a029\u201314\u00a0<strong>Scotland<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wales<\/strong>\u00a031\u201322\u00a0<strong>Japan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>New Zealand<\/strong>\u00a043\u201317\u00a0<strong>France<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>South Africa<\/strong>\u00a045\u20130\u00a0<strong>Italy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ireland<\/strong>\u00a0106\u20137\u00a0<strong>Portugal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uruguay<\/strong>\u00a070\u20138\u00a0<strong>Romania<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>England<\/strong>\u00a022\u201317\u00a0<strong>Argentina<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lions Tour:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>British &amp; Irish Lions<\/strong>\u00a048\u20130\u00a0<strong>Invitational AU &amp; NZ<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned as we break down the four biggest underperformers from this round of matches \u2014 starting with a Lion who looked completely off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy Graham (SCOTLAND)<\/p>\n<p>A disastrous outing marked by poor discipline and costly decisions. He received two yellow cards \u2014 the second upgraded to red \u2014 with one reckless offside intercept near the try line proving game-changing. His confidence looked rattled following his Lions omission, and a finger injury only added to a thoroughly forgettable performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Rugby Pass 4\/10:<\/strong> \u201cTwo yellow cards, the second upgraded to red, bookended a frustrating afternoon. First infringement was marginal but the second, for an offside intercept metres from the line, killed the game. Injured his finger in the process.:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/scotland-player-ratings-vs-fiji-gregor-townsends-men-humbled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RUCK 2\/10:<\/a><\/strong> \u201cPoor discipline marred his performance. A needless yellow card in the first half nearly cost a penalty try, before a second infringement and subsequent red sealed a forgettable outing. Confidence clearly shaken after Lions omission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/1-10-four-players-who-flopped-this-weekend-including-underperforming-lion\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CONTINUES ON PAGE TWO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a dramatic weekend of international rugby action, with several nations putting on dominant displays in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114849125743554237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}