This is the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from the Times and the Sunday times coming to you from

Canberra where we are now ahead of the lions facing the Brumbies midweek off the back of

the victory over the waratars our last pod was from the stands in sydney alfie reynolds here

Alex low and will kellerher are alongside me and another day on tour gents another team news but a big one

alex it feels like yeah we came to you from the sydney football stadium a couple of days ago we're

now in the canber central social club which is quite a cool little place open till 2 a.m which

is actually useful for our deadlines more than our drinking.

We are the only people here.

Yeah, big team selection.

The team selection that we had flagged pretty much from Perth onwards,

that this was going to be, if not nailed down the test team,

because I don't think it's quite nailed down,

and we'll get into why that is,

but it is the strongest lineup that Andy Fowler has picked on this tour. It's got all the mak we'll get into why that is. But it is the strongest line-up that Andy Farrell has picked on this tour.

It's got all the makings of a test team, bar a couple of positions that I think a couple of players still need to secure that test jersey.

But if this was the team that ran out to play Australia in the first test in Brisbane, you wouldn't be too surprised.

14, gutted that it's 14 we

revealed on the rock on Saturday night slash Sunday morning for us yeah so the one that we weren't

we was a flip of a coin um was Kinghorn or Keenan yeah I've got the logic wrong on that one I assumed

he'd play Keenan again because he'd missed a lot of rugby because of injury

and then fell ill at the wrong time, whereas Kinghorn's been playing all the way through for Toulouse.

However, he flipped it around that although Keenan hasn't played much, he has trained a lot with

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