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Scrum V

Lions selection comittee

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6927 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Gareth Rhys Owen and Lauren Jenkins are joined by BBC Scotland's chief sportswriter Tom English and former Ireland international Bernard Jackman to pick a British and Irish Lions squad to tour Australia this summer. Ahead of next Thursday's official announcement, the four select a squad of 37 players consisting of 21 forwards and 16 backs... but how many Welshmen will make the cut?

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0:46.5

Hello everyone. Have you heard the one about the Irishman, the Welshman, the Scotsman and English,

0:53.5

sat in the room picking a team? Yep, Lauren, this is our very own Lions selection committee.

0:56.5

Just without an English voice.

1:01.5

And actually, who's the, of course there is, Tom English.

1:05.8

Tom English, the Irishman who works in Scotland.

1:07.3

Is that right, Tom?

1:09.1

Yes, that is right, Lauren. And I was told many, many years ago that the origins of the name English might be Welsh.

1:17.9

I've never actually checked it out, so there you go.

1:20.1

I really hope that that's true, because that would be really cool.

1:23.9

Yeah, nationality-wise, grow no English in the room today.

1:30.3

But there are no Welsh voices in the Lion's Selection Committee. So we've rigged our selections a bit today to emulate that.

1:37.0

Alid Walters may play a part. I also think there's a plethora of the podcast that will be heavily

1:42.9

loaded in the favour of English voices over the

1:46.5

next few weeks. So this is just a bit of balance work. The voice you haven't really heard yet

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