Welcome back to the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from the Times and the Sunday Times where we are in an empty Suncorp Stadium.

The Lions have done the job in the first test. They have beaten the Wallabies and they will now go on to the MCG in Melbourne with the opportunity to wrap up the series.

I'm Alfie Reynolds, Will Kelleher and Alex Lowe back alongside and Jens.

Well the Red Sea is here, that Sea of Red that we have been hoping for the whole tour

and the game itself probably as we suspected, maybe feared it panned out that way.

Ten minutes it lasted, did it?

50 seconds maybe even.

It was wow.

I mean, look, let's start at the beginning kaxon street was awesome we

were here however long that was ago talking about it's going to be brilliant when the fans roll in

and they have rolled in and they're slightly younger maybe than the people who've done the full

tour and so there were a hundred people queue outside the bars weren't

there Alex when we walked up and we got some proper chanting some we even heard some Welsh singing

as well poor guys with no one in the team we saw some guys in lions onesies with Jack Morgan

and Thomas Williams printed on them and bless them Thomas has gone home and Jack's not playing

so the Welsh are here the Scots here lots of kiltz lots of Irish lots ofise, lots of, didn't get a swing low, but there's plenty of English voices. I heard of swing low outside the Caxon Hotel, yeah. But then, after the fireworks and the cool light shows and stuff like that, Tom Curry and Tygburn just ended the test match in 50 minutes, in 50 didn't they like the first hit from curry the

the jackal turnover from tigburn as if to go oh so we're not the jackaling back row are we i mean

that was dominant wasn't it and set the tone for a pretty dominant first half at least yeah i mean

everything that the lions did in that first half was built on a dominance in the collisions.

The physicality was off the scale compared to Australia who couldn't halt their momentum

and equal at the same time Australia couldn't get anything going themselves in that first half.

I think you saw how much they missed Will Skelton and Rob Vallatini in that first half in particular.

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