More questions than answers in Lions win over Waratahs
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Alan and Charlie pick the bones out of the latest Lions win down under, their third in a row, but by far their most unconvincing.
The Telegraph's chief rugby correspondent Gavin Mairs joins the show from Sydney to offer us his thoughts on the disjointed performance and who in particular played themselves out of the test picture.
Despite the performance, there is praise for the set piece, both the scrum and lineout were impressive and Scotland duo Huw Jones and Scott Cummings both put in their best display on tour so far.
The biggest story of the week has undoubtedly been the call up of Owen Farrell to replace Elliot Daly, we speak to our man in Argentina, Charles Richardson, to see how the news has been received by the rest of the England camp.
We also tackle all your questions as usual too!
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| 0:45.4 | Hello and welcome to the Telegraph Rugby podcast. |
| 0:50.6 | We've just witnessed the Lions squeak to a 2110 win against the Warataz. |
| 0:52.1 | My name is Alan Dimmick. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm commissioning editor for the Telegraph Sport and I'm joined as ever by Charlie Morgan and straight off the bat Charlie what did you make of that one? Fewer redeeming moments, |
| 1:01.8 | more clunky moments at times certainly second hour felt like one big clunky moment but that doesn't |
| 1:07.2 | mean that there aren't so many takes we can take from it yeah we're going to be flying |
| 1:13.0 | around with the takes in fact we're going to be getting them from on the ground gavin mares is |
| 1:16.5 | phoning in from sydney we've also got a familiar face coming back charles richardson's going to be |
| 1:21.7 | getting in touch from argentina he is just scoffed down his breakfast in La Plata he'll be telling us about what the vibes are like in the England camp |
| 1:28.5 | particularly after a certain big bit of news |
| 1:30.4 | and we'll be picking the bones out of yet another Lions match |
| 1:33.6 | here we go |
| 1:34.8 | straight off the bat |
| 1:39.4 | Gavin Mears is joining us from Sydney and Gav |
| 1:42.4 | first question |
| 1:43.6 | did that feel as disjointed in the ground as it did watching it on telly? |
| 1:49.7 | It really did, Al. |
| 1:51.3 | I mean, it's, you know, we're game three here. |
| 1:55.4 | And the way I still the first half, it felt like the Lions had other dominance in the scrum |
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