Brian's Lions: Alex Corbisiero
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
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4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the 2021 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa Brian Moore is sitting down with former players and coaches to discuss some of the memories which have made the Lions become the institution it is today.
For the third instalment, Brian speaks to former England prop Alex Corbisiero about what it's like to join a Lions Tour late, and how you have to force your way into a settled squad.
Alex details his experience in 2013 of finding out he had missed out on selection, then being told he had to make the three-day trip from Argentina to Australia before establishing himself as the starting loosehead prop for the test series.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts |
| 0:04.0 | He's going to score under the post. |
| 0:10.0 | J.J. Williams. |
| 0:12.0 | The Lions leap in the air. |
| 0:14.0 | These are the days that you'd never believe will come again. |
| 0:18.0 | To win for a lion, for the Lions in a Desmuch, is the ultimate. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to full contact with the Telegraph and to our mini-series Brian's Lions. |
| 0:35.8 | Over the course of the next few weeks, as we build up to the 20-21 Lions Tour of South Africa, |
| 0:41.7 | I'll be speaking to the great and the good of Lions Tour's Gone By. |
| 0:46.1 | For our third instalment, I'll be discussing the role of being called up to the tour as a late replacement. |
| 0:51.8 | So many players narrowly missed out on a test call this year, |
| 0:55.0 | but they could still have a part to play, |
| 0:57.2 | not just in the tour, but in the test series too. |
| 1:00.4 | Delighted to say that my guest today did just that in 2013, |
| 1:04.7 | initially left out to the original squad, |
| 1:06.8 | but he arrived midway through the tour |
| 1:08.4 | and played a major role in the test series. |
| 1:11.8 | Delighted to welcome the former England and Lions prop Alex Corbissiero. |
| 1:16.7 | Hello Alex, mate. |
| 1:17.8 | Brian, great to be here with you. |
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