BONUS - The Inside Story Of How Matt Dawson & Austin Healey Destroyed The 2001 Lions Tour

The Rig Biz Podcast

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4.9 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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There may never be another Lions tour like it, with tears, talk of mutiny in the ranks, accusations, explosive player diaries and a head coach who appeared increasingly isolated. How did the 2001 Lions adventure to Australia go so badly wrong? How did it end in bitterness and recriminations? How did Austin Healy and Matt Dawson single handedly destroy the tour?

Today I am joined by journalist and British & Irish Lions media manager Alex Broun to give us the inside story for the first time ever on how this calamitous tour went so badly wrong!
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0:00.0	Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another Lrigby's special.
0:05.0	Today we're investigating the 2001 Lions Tour.
0:08.0	There may never be one like it, with tears, talk and mutiny in the ranks, accusations, revolts, explosive player diaries and head coach who appeared
0:16.4	increasingly isolated. But how did the tour go so badly wrong? How did it end in bitterness
0:21.4	and recriminations? How did Osna He bitterness and recriminations?
0:22.5	How did Austin Healy and Matt Dawson single-handedly destroy the tour?
0:27.0	Well today I'm joined by journalist and lines media manager Alex Braun
0:30.5	to give us the inside story for the first time ever.
0:35.0	I suppose the first hurdle in proceedings on this incredible roller coaster ride
0:39.5	we're about to go on was the somewhat or maybe incredibly controversial choice of Graham Henry as head coach.
0:45.6	The first man outside the four nations, four her nations to coach the Lions will be head coach.
0:50.0	And also the fact that his Wales team weren't performing very well.
0:52.6	They'd had a poor 2001-6 nations.
0:56.5	So can you take us through sort of your memories and recollections
0:59.7	of what was being said in the Roby circles and the reactions in the wider world to his appointment?
1:05.0	Well I guess I can talk more about the players because the players are you know the people who are as
1:09.1	closest to and their feelings on it.
1:11.6	Remembering of course there was a big, big contingent of English
1:14.4	players in that Lions tour. And there was also a lot of Welsh boys as well, but there was a feeling
1:19.5	among the English players pretty clearly that Clyde should have,
1:22.8	Clymerwood should have been the coach,
1:24.4	should have been the manager of the tour.
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