Ringrose out but nine Irishmen start at the MCG

Rugby Union Weekly

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Sports, Sports News, News, Rugby

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chris, Ugo and John Barclay react to Andy Farrell's team for the second Test against Australia. There's no Sione Tuipulotu or Garry Ringrose as Huw Jones and Bundee Aki make up the midfield. But Jac Morgan does make the 23 to give the huge travelling Welsh support something to shout about. What can we expect from the Wallabies at the MCG now they have Rob Valetini and Will Skelton in their side? And how much will conditions effect what we see on Saturday?

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0:34.6	Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly. Rugbyn weekly, Thursday, Melbourne, team announcement day. The Lions squad has just dropped. The Wallaby squad has just dropped. We've got two of our biggest hitters in town. Wow. Big intro. Monnier-Barkley. Feeling full of the joys of spring?
0:54.5	Fully.
0:55.1	Yep.
0:55.5	John's hungover.
0:56.6	What you suggest? Whoa, straight off the bat. Yeah, well, it's true. I thought we'd be a little bit more subtle than that. Jet lag. We'd dance around it slightly. Jet lag. You'll live his jet lag. Do you enjoy me? Delayed onset jet lag. But we're in the beautiful Melbourne suburbs on actually a really, really nice Melbourne day
0:54.0	because it's not guaranteed in the beautiful Melbourne suburbs on actually a really, really nice Melbourne day,
1:12.4	because it's not guaranteed in the Aussie winter.
1:14.8	And as we say a lot, there is loads to talk about the Lions team, Hugo.
1:20.7	Porter Sheehan, Furlong, Atoujay, Chesson, Byrne, Curry, Conan, Gibson Park, Russell, Lowe, Aki Jones, Freeman, Keenan, nine Irish.
1:29.3	It could have been 10 Irish.
1:31.9	Andy Farrell confirmed that actually Gary Ringrose was selected and then got concussion symptoms
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