The big Lions debrief in Sydney
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What was the best moment of the 2025 Lions tour? Who should have been crowned player of the series? Chris is joined by Tom English, Lauren Jenkins and Nigel Ringland to dissect the tour of Australia. We pick our combined XV from the Test series, how many Wallabies will make the cut? You’ll hear how Bundee Aki became a father for the fifth time in rather unusual circumstances and how Tom's tour got off to a tricky start in Perth.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Five Lives, Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:10.1 | Right, Robb Union Weekly, Sunday night, Sydney, a dark and wet Sydney. |
| 0:16.5 | And if there was any sun, it would be setting on the 2025 Lions Tour of Australia. One more pod to go, |
| 0:25.1 | a kind of nation's pod special with Tom and Lauren and also Nigel England. He's been doing |
| 0:31.3 | some brilliant work across the BBC for BBC and I, Radio Ulster, across BBC Sport throughout this |
| 0:37.4 | tour. |
| 0:37.7 | All three of you have been there from the very start from Perth, via Adelaide, Sydney twice, Brisbane twice, Melbourne and the rest to sit here the night before. |
| 0:47.4 | We all fly back. |
| 0:48.7 | How is everyone? |
| 0:50.1 | We're probably ready for home now. |
| 0:52.0 | I'll speak for yourself, Tom. |
| 0:53.5 | Are you? |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah, I've got another week. I've got another week of me at least. |
| 0:56.9 | Have you? |
| 0:57.6 | I think so. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | We've said all tour, the tour's grown into its own, on and off the field. |
| 1:06.3 | So yeah, lucky, I read your brilliant piece on the BBC Sport website earlier. |
| 1:11.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.2 | Looking back at the tour, a 36-day blur, you called it, nine games, eight wins, one loss, 26 miles. |
| 1:19.8 | And we've been there the whole, the hallway. |
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