Cowan-Dickie & Ringrose out, so who plays the first Lions Test?
The Ruck
Reynolds Alfie
3.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The British & Irish Lions are heading to Brisbane to prepare for the first test match against the Wallabies.
They defeated a combined Australia and New Zealand XV 48-0 in Adelaide but lost Luke Cowan-Dickie to injury and will be without Garry Ringrose for the first match of the test series. Jamie George has been called up as cover at hooker.
Alfie, Will and Alex look back on the match and also discuss who Andy Farrell could select in his matchday 23 for that game in a weeks time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, it's Alfi here. |
| 0:18.0 | Just before we get to the discussion between myself, Alex and Will, |
| 0:21.7 | looking back on the Lions' final tour game from out here in Australia. We've had some |
| 0:26.5 | breaking news since. Luke Cowan Dickey picked up his head injury in the game and Jamie George is |
| 0:32.2 | being called up to the squad. Cowan Dickey also still a part of the squad, but Jamie George |
| 0:37.0 | is coming from Argentina, |
| 0:39.0 | where he was due to play with England today. He is on a plane out here to Australia. We didn't |
| 0:43.8 | have that information when we originally recorded, so we just wanted to mention it at the |
| 0:47.8 | top of the podcast. But on with the rest of the pod. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome back to The Ruck, five games, five cities, and we have reached a pivotal point in the tour. |
| 1:01.6 | The Lions are departing Adelaide with another win, next stop Brisbane and build up to the first test. |
| 1:07.1 | I'm Alfie Reynolds, and I'm here once again in a commentary box looking out on the Adelaide |
| 1:11.8 | Oval with Will Keleher and Alex Lowe and we have got through what feels like the first real |
| 1:17.3 | chunk of the tour gents. Yeah and what a place to finish. Adelaide Oval is an absolute |
| 1:22.7 | beauty of a stadium, isn't it Alex? Yeah. I think it's my favourite of the Aussie cricket grounds. |
| 1:27.4 | It's the one with the most character. Now they're playing test cricket at the Optus in Perth. This is the one that still stands alone. It's got the hill. You can see the cathedral over the old scoreboard from where we're standing. And the way they've modernised this stadium but kept it feeling sort of vintage. It's classy. It it's lovely so they've actually got two walls |
| 1:47.1 | one which is a hundred years old behind one of the stands and the other one that's about 10 years |
| 1:52.1 | old and they look similar and that's it's a bit like lords as you say they've tried to keep the |
| 1:56.5 | character the old place but they've kept the so we're looking out on the field now from the |
| 2:00.3 | halfway line and you can look out towards a cathedral and the hundred year old scoreboard the |
| 2:04.8 | morton bay figs there on the mound and apparently the morton bay figs were put there because |
| 2:09.4 | people were just sitting behind and just watching the game so they put them there and grew them |
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