Lions clinch the series after epic comeback
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Lions have won their series against Australia after producing a sensational comeback in Melbourne on Saturday!
Charles and Charlie unpack the game and where it was won for Andy Farrell's side, and where it was possibly lost by the Wallabies.
We ask if Jac Morgan was lucky not to be penalised for his clearout in the final minutes of the game and if Dan Sheehan's try was within the rules of the game.
As for Australia, we look at where it went wrong for the hosts who were winning 23-5 shortly before the end of the first half.
We also take a look at the third and final Test next week and ask if Andy Farrell will give some of his fringe players a chance or if he will stick with what has worked so far
And we tackle all your questions as usual too!
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| 0:44.4 | Hello everyone. Wow. |
| 0:45.8 | What a test match. |
| 0:49.8 | They did it by hook or by crook. |
| 0:56.1 | The Lions are now series winners in Australia with one test left to play in Sydney next week. |
| 1:04.7 | Credit has to go to the wallabies, a rejuvenated, almost revolutionised wallabies in one week. |
| 1:07.1 | But the Lions did it. |
| 1:08.6 | They got there at the end. |
| 1:13.2 | We're going to discuss later with Gavin Mayer's chief rugby correspondent who is at the MCG, over 90,000 people there where this match sits in the |
| 1:19.3 | pantheon of all times. Great Lions games, Gav's been at most of them. But Charlie, where do you |
| 1:25.4 | think, where does it rank for you after what you've just seen? |
| 1:28.2 | It's right out there. I'm not sure, do you know what? |
| 1:30.1 | I'm not, we'll get into it, but as far as quality, maybe not as high as we've seen in the past, |
| 1:35.2 | but in terms of the drama, in terms of the content, in terms of everything from a prop |
| 1:39.3 | having to change his boots to controversial referee and calls to genuinely excellent, excellent tribes from 80 metres or so. |
| 1:46.2 | It seemed to have absolutely everything and a blockbuster finish to end it all. |
| 1:53.3 | My head's still in a spin, but we're going to hopefully make some sense of it all. |
| 1:56.2 | Yeah, it wasn't quite, if we're sort of comparing to 2009, maybe in that second test in 2009, where it was two |
| 2:02.8 | absolutely world-class teams playing at the absolute peak of their powers, wasn't quite that |
| 2:08.6 | today. |
| 2:09.3 | Games don't need that. |
| 2:10.2 | It really did ebb and flow. |
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