Lions thrash AUNZ in final warm up game
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
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🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Alan and Charlie reflect on the Lions thrashing of the Australia/New Zealand invitational on Saturday morning in Adelaide.
The Telegraph's Chief Rugby Correspondent Gavin Mairs checks in after Andy Farrell's post match press conference to deliver news of Garry Ringrose's injury which has ruled him out of the opening test next Saturday.
There's praise for Huw Jones who could start at outside centre in Ringrose absence, elsewhere Ben Earl put in a man of the match display and could have forced himself into the test 23
Owen Farrell made his first appearance on tour as well, we ask if his impressive cameo will have been enough to see him feature against the Wallabies.
Away from the Lions, we round up the rest of the international including a first win in 18 for Wales!
And we tackle your questions as usual too!
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| 0:44.2 | Well, there you go. |
| 0:45.6 | That's the last tour match before the test series |
| 0:46.8 | for the British and Irish Lions |
| 0:48.5 | handily dispatched the AUNZ |
| 0:51.2 | Invitational 15. |
| 0:53.2 | My name is Alan Dimmick. I'm commissioning editor for sport at the |
| 0:56.2 | Telegraph and I'm joined as ever by Charlie Morgan who's back from Disneyland. Charlie, |
| 1:01.6 | the lovely tan you're sporting at the moment by the way. Thank you. Straight off, what did you make |
| 1:05.9 | of that one? You were just telling us how it was a bit of a feel-good factor there. Yeah, it was, had a bit of a spring |
| 1:11.1 | of my step coming up to the studio after that. We arrived a little bit flat. I think the last couple |
| 1:14.9 | of performances, fair to say, had enough, from the lines before this, had enough flat patches to |
| 1:19.8 | make you wonder whether the tour was on a little bit of a tipping point, whether it could |
| 1:23.9 | kind of descend into sort of real clunkiness with a loss or just more of an unconvincing display tonight. |
| 1:30.0 | But from the off, that was really slick, really ambitious, just a lot of conviction about it. |
| 1:37.5 | Notwithstanding the really poor opposition, I don't think that can be sort of, there's a big caveat there because they were awful. Can only play what's in front of you? You can. And in that respect, it was, it was very |
| 1:48.9 | impressive from the last. Okay, so this is the last match before the test series starts. We're going to |
| 1:52.9 | dive right into talking about what that means for the test 15 question marks over a few injuries. |
| 1:58.0 | Some guys maybe took their last opportunity to put their hand up. Some maybe didn't. In that one, we will also have Gavin Mears joining us from the ground as ever. Let's talk lions. |
| 2:11.6 | Okay, so Lions 48, AUNZ Invitational 15-0. Thankfully, don't have to say that again. |
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