Australia vs Lions - 2nd test preview
The Ruck
Reynolds Alfie
3.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It's the second test between Australia and the British & Irish Lions, Joe Schmidt and Andy Farrell have named their sides.
Alex Lowe, Will Kelleher, Owen Slot and Alfie Reynolds are in Melbourne to look ahead to what could be a series clinching match for the Lions, or will Australia respond to their defeat in Brisbane?
They discuss both team selections, including Garry Ringrose ruling himself out through injury, Will Skelton's return for the Wallabies and Joe Schmidt's anti-hype approach to the series.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:20.3 | We are sat on the Docklands here in Melbourne, just west of the CBD. |
| 0:25.4 | Alfie Reynolds here, Will Kellerher, Owen Slot, Alex Lowe. |
| 0:28.9 | The Wallabies have named their team, the Lions have named their team for that all-important second test this weekend coming up at the MCG. We are looking forward to it. |
| 0:39.2 | Where should we start, boys? We'll get on to the wallabies maybe because Will was there. |
| 0:42.5 | Alex, Slotty and myself were at the Lions and Alex was a few different bits to get through, isn't there? |
| 0:48.2 | Three changes for Andy Fowell. Should we run through them? So Andrew Porter starts. Ellis Genge has been named on the bench, which is |
| 0:54.5 | quite interesting. Olly Chessam comes in for Joe McCarthy, who is injured, and Bundiaki comes in |
| 1:00.1 | for Sione Turpilotto. Where do we want to start with this team, Alex? Where do you reckon? |
| 1:04.2 | We should start with Gary Ringrose. That's the news line, isn't it? So the line's intention |
| 1:08.5 | had been to drop Turpilatu and hugh jones and pick the all |
| 1:13.7 | island midfield of bundiaki and gary ringrose that was the plan all the way up to the end of |
| 1:20.2 | training today literally minutes before they announced the team when gary ringrose approached |
| 1:26.6 | andy farrell and the team doctor |
| 1:28.9 | and reported some concussion symptoms. |
| 1:31.4 | Now, he has a concussion history, |
| 1:34.5 | and on this tour he has a concussion history, |
| 1:36.6 | and he obviously missed the first test |
| 1:39.1 | because he was going through the protocols, |
| 1:40.8 | having reported a delayed concussion after the Brumbies game. |
| 1:43.5 | He came back, played 65 minutes against the First Nations Pacifica on Tuesday, |
| 1:48.7 | suffered no symptoms then, no problems, took no blows to the head as far as the lions could tell. |
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