The Lions' Wake-Up Call

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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Sports News, Sports, Rugby, News

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🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The British & Irish Lions' tour started with a jolt as Argentina pulled off a stunning 24-28 victory in Dublin. Join Graham Simmons and former Lion Shane Horgan on The Quick Tap as they dissect the good, the bad & the Rugby. "Simmo" and "Shaggy" pull no punches, reacting to Andy Farrell's "unacceptable" comments and the Lions' disjointed performance. Was just early tour rust? Don't miss this analysis of the tour's rocky start and what it means for the path to the Wallabies series. "Simmo" worked for 25 years as Sky Sports' rugby union reporter, and went on 5 Lions Tours. He also spent a decade broadcasting on their golf coverage from Ryder Cups and US Opens to USPGAs. The Quick Tap is sponsored by Continental Tyres 00:02:00 😡 Andy Farrell's Unfiltered Reaction 00:08:39 🦁 What Went Right? 00:17:00 🤔 The Owen Farrell Question: Should He Join Squad? 00:18:00 🦘 Western Force Enters the Equation 00:20:00 🎣 Shane's Pollock Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You could have got nine to one on with certain bookmakers for the Lions to win their tour opener
0:04.9	against Argentina in Dublin. As it turned out, 24, 28, it finished to Argentina. They were a whisker away,
0:14.8	what, 20 years ago in the corresponding fixture against the Lions in Cardiff. Tonight, though,
0:19.6	they absolutely nailed it.
0:21.9	Welcome to the quick tap on the good, the bad, and the rugby.
0:24.0	I'm Graham Simmons.
0:24.8	I'm in the effortless company of 2005, British and Irish Lions, Shane Hogan.
0:31.1	Shane, we can spin that whatever way we want, can't we?
0:33.2	But it's been one, didn't they?
0:36.3	Yeah, but how I want to spin it is my stock is rising.
0:39.5	We drew with them 20 years ago.
0:41.8	But they are going to be,
0:43.9	they're going to be very disappointed, Graham.
0:46.5	It looked to me like a Lions team
0:50.1	that was very much at the start of their tour
0:53.1	and building into it,
1:00.9	playing against an Argentine team that knew this was their only opportunity.
1:07.0	And of course we know the objective for the Lions isn't beating Argentina.
1:09.7	It's winning a test series against the Wallabies.
1:10.7	That's the goal. But for Argentina, it was very clear. There's only one goal here. Whatever it goes on with the tests later on in the summer against England, they don't care. It was this was the big game for them. They came out and played like that from the opening minute. They were aggressive. They were positive. I also think tactively they got it right. And the
1:28.8	lions looked like a scratch team. You could see elements of the structure and what they were
1:35.7	trying to do. But the problem was too many players were forcing it, particularly in attack.
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