Lions Watch: Fullbacks jostling for position and too late for any bolters?
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Marcus and Luke pack up the truck and head out onto the plains for another edition of Lions Watch, the show where we continually talk up England outsiders’ chances without any consideration for who we’d have to drop from the squad. And plenty more besides.
We kick off today with a chat about England’s defenders as Nico O’Reilly’s impressive form pushes him closer to many people’s starting XIs - but does he make ours? Plus: getting the attacking blend right, some of the other World Cup groups and whether the likes of Max Dowman and Rio Ngumoha can grab a last-minute spot on the plane.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to another edition of Lions Watch. We are here. We're live and we're doing this every fortnight until the World Cup begins. We are only 57 days away from the big kickoff in North America. Luke, more, is with me. Hello. Luke, 57 days, brother. I thought it was 63. You're wrong. Am I? Fair enough. I just know that in the run of order it said 63. But it doesn't matter. Yeah. |
| 0:39.1 | It's an amount of days. |
| 0:52.5 | Yes. Maybe it's 57 till it starts and 63 till England play. There you go. That's probably what it is. That's what Luke's worried about. Crisis averted. He doesn't give a damn about the other nations. He only cares about one. I do give a damn about them. Do you? |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.9 | Not in a football. |
| 0:55.6 | I think all nations should be equal, |
| 0:57.4 | but some are just a bit more equal than others. |
| 0:58.1 | Right, there we are. Yeah, we are. That's Mr. England, Luke, Luke, we're going to be answering the good listeners and viewers' questions, of course. Get them in the chat box on YouTube. I mean, first comment from Yasser-Remman, Mon the Scotland. Yeah. It's Lions Watch. He spotted his own line. They do have one. I've seen three, though. Yeah, they don't have three. I've seen a comment here saying, you're live, so don't say fuck or bugger. Right, okay. Well, we won't. We won't do that. Supernova Dragon. Hello, all. Hello to you. Excellent. Ben Haywood. Oh, I caught you guys' life. Sweet. As, bro. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet as. |
| 1:38.7 | Okay. More of that. Okay. Let's, sorry about the bollocks, everybody. Let's start with a question here from Jack. Never apologise. On email. |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.6 | He's got in touch on email. |
| 1:49.3 | So he knew we were doing this and he thought I'm going to get head of the pack. |
| 1:49.7 | Clever. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, head of the pack of lions. |
| 1:51.6 | Pride of Lions. |
| 1:52.3 | Pride alliance. It's a Pride alliance. |
| 1:53.0 | We should have changed the name actually to, from Lions Watch to something to do with |
| 1:56.6 | the pride. Update it for the new tournament. Let's talk about that live. Put your suggestions in. |
| 2:01.0 | You just put your suggestions in, Marcus. We've got a whole listenership in front of us here. We've got as we use them. Let's get the Jack's question. Yeah. Given the excellent form of Nico O'Reilly over the past couple of months, is he now a nailed on starter for England at the World Cup? Luke Moore. I don't think he's a nailed on |
| 2:18.5 | starter. |
| 2:19.2 | Okay. |
| 2:19.9 | Purely because |
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