Brian's Lions: John Smit
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the 2021 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa Brian Moore will be 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 second instalment Brian speaks to former South Africa captain John Smit who discusses what it's like to face the Lions, a privilege only available to Springboks once every twelve years.
He shares his memories of the Lions victory in 1997 where he played a small part in the lead up to the test series and discusses the famous test series win in 2009 where he admits he was more nervous than he had been for the World Cup Final two years previously.
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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, the lion's leap in the air. |
| 0:14.0 | These are the days that you never believe will come again. |
| 0:18.0 | To win for a lion, for the lions in a Desmerch, is the ultimate. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to full contact with the Telegraph and this mini-series Brian's Lions |
| 0:35.9 | over the course of the next few weeks, |
| 0:38.4 | as we build up to the 2021 Lions Tour South Africa, |
| 0:42.1 | I'll be speaking to the great and the good of Lions Tour has gone by. |
| 0:45.6 | And for our second instalment, I'll be discussing what it's like to face the Lions |
| 0:49.5 | and the pressure of facing aside. |
| 0:51.4 | You can only ever play once every 12 years. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm delighted to say, joining me all the way from the other side of the world |
| 0:59.0 | is the former South African captain and World Cup winner and series winner in 2009. |
| 1:04.6 | It's John. |
| 1:05.5 | Hello, John. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi there, Brian. You will? |
| 1:07.9 | I'm not too bad, mate. |
| 1:08.9 | Look, we've gone at length about why it's special over here to be a lion, |
| 1:14.1 | and it really is, I know that from personal experience, |
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