Episode 46 - The Ultimate Lions Review - Beanbags, Brawls and Who Should Coach the Next Lions Tour?

The Rugby Pod

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4.7 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

That’s a wrap on Season 9 and what a way to go out! The lads dive into a wet and chaotic third Lions Test where the Aussies finally clicked to deny the whitewash. Goodey and Jim get stuck into the big calls - did Schmidt outsmart Farrell? Was that 40-minute delay a turning point? And who’s next to coach the Lions? There’s chat on Big Willy Skelton, surprise packages, Player of the Tour, and the shambles around media access down in Aus. Plus, some big news about live shows in the USA, transfer rumours, and the usual shoutouts to legends of the grassroots game. It's been a hell of a season, and this is your definitive wrap-up to finish it off. Rugby Spod out... for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod, pod, pod.
0:01.1	Rugby pod.
0:06.6	Hello!
0:07.8	And welcome back to the rugby pod for the final time this season, James Hamilton.
0:13.4	Yes, sir.
0:14.3	Season nine is done and dusted, Andrew, and thank good.
0:18.2	No, I'm going to miss you.
0:18.8	Look, I'm going to miss it.
0:20.1	It's been hell of a season. It has. And what a episode to finish on, hey, all of a dingdon at the weekend. So we'll be reviewing a very wet. I find the word wet, very weird. And turgid affair for the third test of what was, I thought it was a brilliant tour all round. Yeah, it was. It was. We'll get into it and we're going to look at some of the big questions around what's next James. Who's going to be the next Lions Coast? Just give it Fas now. It'd be fine. Rassy. We're going to dive into a loads of that and chat about the tour overall. It's been epic. Season 9 has been long. It's our longest season ever,
0:55.4	but it's been unbelievable. Yeah, well, we're going to go out in style today. So hopefully,
1:00.3	well it's not hopefully, it bloody well will be a hell of a show.
1:03.5	To settle back, enjoy, and make sure you subscribe on Spotify.
1:09.3	Our good, Jim, overall, as a Lions tour and series, great to see it finish at the weekend.
1:14.6	And do you know what, Australia winning, although we spoke about last week, I was gutted, we
1:20.6	didn't go three nil, but fully deserves. Australia are on the map.
1:24.6	They've got a couple of big years coming up.
1:26.6	They've got a big August coming up now with the rugby championship. But it was good, actually, I think, for the game itself. Yes, James, you were the Oracle. Say it. Say it. You were right, James. What was I right about, Andrew? That the lions went on the hose for three days and no no no go further back further back
1:46.9	the Aussies they're coming around the mountain when she comes yeah yeah and that was the thing
1:52.6	right Andrew because with this tour and it's been up it's been down it's been up and down for us
1:58.4	it's been up and down for the listeners for the viewers of the show and it's been down. It's been up and down for us. It's been up and down for the listeners, for the viewers of the show. And it's been amazing and it's been chaotic. It's been brutal.
2:09.6	There's been jeopardy. And you know, like us personally, when we chat, producer Rob,
2:15.4	when we have these conversations off air, we normally
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