2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia

[TRF_Olyy]

Is that saying players will miss the Prem/URC finals to go and join up with the lions earlier...?

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

how are causal sports fans supposed to care about premiership rugby if rugby doesn’t care about premiership rugby?

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Presume it’ll mean we’ll all be starting when the Top 14 does next year. Remember when Player Welfare was in vogue for awhile.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Also believe off seasons are good for fans. Has northern hemispheres rugby had a month off since Covid? I know I’m rugby fatigued and haven’t watched a full match since the World Cup. Will probably pick up again during champions cup.

 

[Umaga's Witness]

I know the players will generally want the honour if being selected and would like to play with other great players, but is there a chance some will just opt out this time? I mean, tha waalabies, really?

What about money, is there money in it for the players?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

What about money, is there money in it for the players?

Much like anything that screams and shouts about being for the love of the sport and amateur values (cough Barbarians cough) there's a ton of money involved and that's all the blazers care about

Tourists get a flat fee (around £50k last tour, £65k tour before) and then 5 figure match and win bonuses on top of that

 

[Umaga's Witness]

Much like anything that screams and shouts about being for the love of the sport and amateur values (cough Barbarians cough) there's a ton of money involved and that's all the blazers care about

Tourists get a flat fee (around £50k last tour, £65k tour before) and then 5 figure match and win bonuses on top of that

That's good money, and the win bonuses - that's easy money. even id play the wallabies for that.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I’m sure players will be more excited about playing on a winning tour to Australia rather than a loosing tour to New Zealand or South Africa.

They can be a winning tourist and hopefully now Gatland is gone we will actually have a proper selection rather than a load of average welshmen (who were probably born in England).

 

[Kiwiwomble]

I'm sure players will be more excited about playing on a winning tour to Australia rather than a loosing tour to New Zealand or South Africa.

They can be a winning tourist and hopefully now Gatland is gone we will actually have a proper selection rather than a load of average welshmen (who were probably born in England).

yeah, i think history will forget how weak the wallabies were (and we dont know they wont turn it around in 18 months) so a win will be important, only one tour victory since 2001 too so getting another will be important for them i would think

 

[RedruthRFC]

That's good money, and the win bonuses - that's easy money. even id play the wallabies for that.

Is it? Maybe I've become blasé thanks to the RFU's largesse, but it strikes me as fairly mean. Without the win bonuses, an England player could theoretically net more money by declining the Lions invite and playing in England's summer tour.

 

[Groundhog]

 

[TRF_Olyy]

@Bigger Gingerer 8 in the carpark pre-game

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Counter offer - a combined Australia / Argentina team have a tour against the 6 nations teams. A tough ask but with a 1-0 head start after the Cardiff opener anything is possible.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I wonder how you’ll be able to get tickets for that game as that’s going to be a sell out.

 

[General Melchett]

Will any Brits get into the Lions team? Just waiting for Sexton to come out of retirement and make himself available for the Lions after Faz senior is confirmed as head coach.

 

[Deleted member 53362]

Will any Brits get into the Lions team? Just waiting for Sexton to come out of retirement and make himself available for the Lions after Faz senior is confirmed as head coach.

Finn Russell

 

[Welsh Exile]

Will any Brits get into the Lions team? Just waiting for Sexton to come out of retirement and make himself available for the Lions after Faz senior is confirmed as head coach.

LRZ

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Right now Jac Morgan, Ben Earl, Finn Russell and at least one of Darcy Graham, Louis Rees-Zammit and a fit Anthony Watson make my Lions 23 as well as a non-Irish loosehead, a non-Irish 9 and probably another non-Irish 10.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

LRZ

It'll be Duhan and Hansen and you know it - the media love it when SH players play for the Lions

 

[Welsh Exile]

It'll be Duhan and Hansen and you know it - the media love it when SH players play for the Lions

Yeah you’re probably right to be fair.

 

[General Melchett]

So Darcy and LRZ to play for the midweek team. That's decided then.

Can see the test half back partnership being JGP and Russell assuming both fit and in form.

My draft test backline

9. JGP
10. Russell
11. DVDM
12. Aki
13. Ringrose
14. Hansen
15. Keenan

Surely a 5:3 split on the bench given how bad Australia are.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

9. JGP
10. Russell
11. DVDM
12. Aki
13. Ringrose
14. Hansen
15. Keenan

4/7 imports, what a joke international sport is

Lions should have their own eligibility laws and remove residency from the equation

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Looking at the World Cup engnland > Ireland.

So the real question should be, are there any Irish, welsh and Scottish that would actually make the 23 compared to the mighty English semi finalists.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

4/7 imports, what a joke international sport is

Lions should have their own eligibility laws and remove residency from the equation

What about

9 JGP
10 G Arscombe
11 DVM
12 S Tupolotu
13 Aki
14 steyn
15 Hanson

Could probably do a forward back quite easily as well.

 

[Derpus]

The Lions is just an excuse to get on it for the exceedingly large contingent of British expats populating Bondi and the Gold Coast. No Australian is going to pay the absurd asking price for a ticket.

The Wallabies are struggling to pay their players and have already lost Nawaqanitawase to the NRL. I'd say a 50 point winning margin for the Lions would be par the way things are going.

Maybe they should play the Kangaroos. Would be more competitive.

 

[Derpus]

4/7 imports, what a joke international sport is

Lions should have their own eligibility laws and remove residency from the equation

Mack is the most bogan **** out. He's basically rugby's answer to David Boon.

Happy that he's escaped Australian rugby and shows that we still have the talent hidden under all the administrative excrement. Pretty hilarious he's turning out for Ireland.

 

[Hmmmmmm]

The Lions is just an excuse to get on it for the exceedingly large contingent of British expats populating Bondi and the Gold Coast. No Australian is going to pay the absurd asking price for a ticket.

The Wallabies are struggling to pay their players and have already lost Nawaqanitawase to the NRL. I'd say a 50 point winning margin for the Lions would be par the way things are going.

Maybe they should play the Kangaroos. Would be more competitive.

Yeah they are going to pay it. I know I will.

 

[Derpus]

Yeah they are going to pay it. I know I will.

Yeah right. No one gives a **** about the Wallabies. Certainly not during a cost of living crisis.

 

[Welsh Exile]

Yeah right. No one gives a **** about the Wallabies. Certainly not during a cost of living crisis.

Are there no middle class people in Australia?

 

[Hmmmmmm]

Yeah right. No one gives a **** about the Wallabies. Certainly not during a cost of living crisis.

Yeah they do Derpus. You don’t and that’s your choice. I know a lot of my cohort are planning on going