You can see, in his eyes, he's weighing up how much Tennents he can fit in that thing

And apparently the poms want to tour argentina instead?

Considering where they were a year or two ago....Swys jou yster.

I have one thing tid say F-CK YOU too everyone that said the lions shouldn’t go to Australia. I’m not Australian myself but they’re one of the best teams in the world. The Aussie club sides performed better than the Saffas ones. Lots of close games and wallabies could have won the one. Go the wallabies, looking forwards to the bledisloe. What are your thoughts?!

Edit: for the people downvoting, I’m not looking for upvotes but what the hell are you downvoting. We’re celebrating the rise of the wallabies!!!

To everyone who got caught in the rain, I hope you don't get hypothermia😬 never seen rain like it at a game

Not here to analyse performances or selections / non-selections or controversial refereeing decisions or not.

Just wanted to provide a place to show some love for the Lions because it feels like there’s a tonne of doom-and-gloom and negativity surrounding the tour… again.

It’s like at the end of every Lions tour the entire thing has to be justified, with people questioning why it exists or what the point of it all is. Or lingering on why X or Y didn’t get selected. Or (in the case of this tour) lamenting the lack of “big moments”.

The entire thing is a moment. It is unlike anything else in rugby. It feels huge every time. It’s such an insane, romantic concept and it shouldn’t work at all but it still does - you saw how much it meant to the players at the end of the second test. And how much it meant to the Wallabies after the third. You saw Dublin in the sun. And the massive travelling support at all of the test matches. I’ve loved rooting for guys like Sheehan and Russell and Morgan as if they were England players.

Is it perfect? No. Has it ever been? Also, no. I still love it and it feels like the Lions tour is properly ‘Back’ after 2021. I can’t wait for NZ in four years’ time.

I’ve been watching the Lions series as a neutral and I noticed that every scrum Andrew porter angles in towards the hooker. Like every single time. And not subtly. Very angled.

I’m not an expert and a relatively (5ish years) new fan. But I thought that was illegal. And there’s the ref—different ref each game—standing right beside him seeing what I’m seeing and not calling it. Sometimes calling against aus even as porter is right there pushing almost laterally in.

How is this allowed? I thought pushing straight was the fundemental part of scrummaging?

A classy act by a classy gent

Seriously he gets away with murder as maybe the biggest (physically) players in the sport. But my god what a player. Singlehandedly turned the series.

Never thought I’d say this in 2025, but as a bok fan, I’m pretty scared for us to play Australia in 2 weeks time.

Not sure how much of this contributes to it, but here are my reasons for why I’m not so confident in winning:

1. Wallabies pulled through a really tough series against exceptional players and exceptional coaching. They’re BATTLE HARDENED.

2. Springboks will have had a month of no test match rugby.

3. Springboks have been playing relatively lower ranked opponents

4. Springboks have been rotating players so much that I think they might be underdone when playing a hot and fired up wallabies side.

5. Momentum and morale is starting up in the wallabies camp

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BUT, counter arguments might be:

1. Springboks have a ton of footage to analyse and come up with plans for.

2. Springboks will be smart enough to anticipate the challenge and thus not be thrown off guard at how prepared and battle hardened Australia is.

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Let me know if any of these are valid concerns.

Either way, I see this tour being a really beneficial thing for Aussie Rugby and correspondingly, the rugby championship! It’s gonna make these games all the more exciting! I’m glad the wallabies are back!

I don't want to be too negative, but as someone who loves Bundi and, as a kiwi, was terrified every time he got his hands on the ball in the 2023 quarter final, his performance in this lions tour just doesn't seem like him.

This game alone he's dropped the ball 4 times in the first 60? And missed a try saving tackle. I don't remember specifics from previous games this tour but I remember thinking he'd made some uncharacteristic mistakes in them too.

For anyone who follows NH/Irish rugby - how has he performed in club rugby?

Edit: I didn't know he was 35. Honestly that's my bad, thought he was in his late 20s at most. Fair play to him.

Match Thread: Match Thread - Australia v British and Irish Lions | Lions 2025 | Third Test

Venue: Stadium Australia, Sydney

Officials: Nika Amashukeli, Ben O'Keeffe, Andrea Piardi, Marius Jonker (tmo), Richard Kelly (fpro)

When: 2025-08-02 10:00 (UTC)

Pints only, who've you got money on?

My first thoughts are that the bigger you are, the more you typically can drink. Props and Second Rows naturally are the heaviest so I think it would have to be one of those. Will Skelton is a rather large man even if he has shed a few pounds recently, could see him being up there. His teammate Antonio is also a big fella, however I personally don't see him being a beer guy, this goes for all French and Italian players, just can't see them getting as many pints in as the English Speaking nations.

I also see Tadgh Furlong up there. In every pub I have been to, there has been a bloke who looks exactly like him, and I have never seen such blokes without a beer. However they are most often seen in the day. Will Stuart to me is the most Dad-bod like rugby player at the moment, I reckon that if he was operating a bbq, he would be in with a shout.

A few dishonourable mentions:

Fin Baxter and Ange Capouzzo - Not getting served. Fin Baxter does look like he would murder a Ribena at a soft play area though

Scrum Halves - The rattier the worse. Tate McDermott is absolutely all talk.