An all-time classic at the MCG as the Lions win the series
The Ruck
Reynolds Alfie
3.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The British & Irish Lions have won the test series against Australia! Hugo Kennan scored the winning try in the final play of the game to cap off an extraordinary match at the MCG.
Alfie, Alex and Will reflect on a match which will go down in Lions history. They chat about Jac Morgan's controversial clear out at the end of the game, how impressive the Lions were to come from behind and the utter devastation for Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here we are again. Welcome back to the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from the Times and the Sunday Times out here in Australia as we look out at an empty MCG where myself, Alfie Reynolds, Will Kelleher and Alex Lowe witness one of the great Lions test matches in one of the great stadiums around the world. |
| 0:36.9 | The Lions have won the series. |
| 0:38.4 | Hugo Keenan scored the final try. |
| 0:40.3 | We had drama at the end and the Lions are victorious in Australia once again. |
| 0:45.9 | Will Alex, the only place to start is what a game and what an occasion. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, first off the bat, stat bomb from Stu Farmer. |
| 0:56.0 | Before today, the biggest ever Lions comeback to win a test match was just 10 points, |
| 1:01.1 | trailing 133 at halftime against the Springboks in 1938 to win 2116. |
| 1:06.6 | Today's was an 18 point turnaround. |
| 1:09.7 | So the greatest Lions comeback ever. They did it with the final |
| 1:12.8 | try to win the series. That was pretty special, Alex. It was incredible. And it was everything we wanted |
| 1:19.6 | this game to be. I don't mean the result of it. It could have gone either way. But as an occasion, |
| 1:24.5 | as an atmosphere, as a contest, like the wallabies needed to turn up, and man, they turned up for 50 minutes at least. |
| 1:34.2 | Will Skelton, Rob Vallatini, just kind of the one-two punch they delivered, |
| 1:38.3 | had the lions on the ropes. |
| 1:40.2 | The lions were retreating. |
| 1:41.3 | They were in trouble. |
| 1:42.0 | They were back to that kind of conceding penalty after penalty, get on a warning, yellow card, bang, bang, bang, the wallabees. |
| 1:49.6 | Behind that power game, we then got to see really what they can do with the ball and what |
| 1:54.9 | incredible athletes they have. And Sue E. and Tom Wright and Tate McDermott when he had to come on on the wing and was as |
| 2:03.0 | slippery as anything and they're 18 points up and what you know what are the performance they |
| 2:08.4 | delivered to get there we were sitting quite high up Will and thinking as good as they've been |
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