2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia

[antipodean]

Good - others are starting to notice.

[Dodge]

Had a go at my starting 23 for the first test:

1. Porter
2. Sheehan
3. Stuart
4. Itoje ©
5. Beirne (tempted to go with Chessum here)
6. Tom Curry
7. Earl
8. Doris (would prefer T Willis but can't abide the whinging that would happen)
9. Gibson-Park
10. F Smith
11. Lowe
12. Tuipolotu / Aki
13. Jones / Henshaw
14. Graham
15. Keenan

16. Genge
17. Furlong
18. George
19. Chessum
20. B Curry
21. White
22. M Smith
23. Freeman

re centres, I'm torn between both Ireland and both Scotland, would come down to fitness of the 12s on the day I think

[Mr Fish]

@Dodge not content with having two No 10 Smiths you've added a third to the mix?

[mariner4life]

@Dodge pretty close to mine, I would probably start genge though

[Catogrande]

@Mr-Fish said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Dodge not content with having two No 10 Smiths you've added a third to the mix?

Yeah. bang on. Plus he was more of a centre and must be about 50 now. Ollie has as much chance as a Welshman.

Apologies for all the Taffs but I couldn't resist.

[Dodge]

@Mr-Fish said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Dodge not content with having two No 10 Smiths you've added a third to the mix?

whoops! I meant Finn! edited now!

[Dodge]

@mariner4life said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Dodge pretty close to mine, I would probably start genge though

So would I but I'm already going to get accused of bias...

[MiketheSnow]

@Catogrande said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Mr-Fish said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Dodge not content with having two No 10 Smiths you've added a third to the mix?

Yeah. bang on. Plus he was more of a centre and must be about 50 now. Ollie has as much chance as a Welshman.

Apologies for all the Taffs but I couldn't resist.

If we get any on the plane, then they'll feature at some stage

[maroon]

@Catogrande I lived 12 years in Primrose Hill, by the Zoo. The only animals we heard regularly were the wolves.

[KiwiMurph]

So instead of Rebels vs Lions in Melbourne for a tour game it will be First Nations/Pasifika team vs Lions

[antipodean]

@KiwiMurph said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

So instead of Rebels vs Lions in Melbourne for a tour game it will be First Nations/Pasifika team vs Lions

Really expanding the game inviting American Indian tribes to come down and participate.

[NTA]

@mariner4life said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Dodge pretty close to mine, I would probably start genge though

Porter surely can't be the best loosehead available? Or even the best 2?

Schoemann?

[Bovidae]

Part of the coaching staff, not the head coach.

Nathan Williamson  /  Mar 19

Foster announced in AU/NZ coaching staff, First Nations Pasifika game confirmed for Lions Series

[MN5]

@NTA said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@mariner4life said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@Dodge pretty close to mine, I would probably start genge though

Porter surely can't be the best loosehead available? Or even the best 2?

Schoemann?

He certainly looks the part and a team can never have enough South Africans Scotsmen in it.....

[pakman]

[MN5]

@pakman said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

This has been shared already

[Bones]

@Catogrande said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@MN5

My sister lives out in the sticks a few miles from Longleat and you can sometimes her the fuckers coughing in the middle of the night. Not very reassuring.

Maybe she should see a doctor?

[pakman]

@MN5 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@pakman said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

This has been shared already

I thought it might have been, but my brief search ‘British Lions’ drew a blank!

[pakman]

@MiketheSnow Was sent to me by Welsh supporter.

[Dodge]

heard on a podcast last night that Kinghorn will likely be playing for Toulouse in the T14 final the day of the first tour match, then probably miss the second as he'll be in the air, and the third because of jet lag - i hadn't been sure whether to go with Keenan or Kinghorn at 15 but that firms up my view now i think.