Wallabies deny Lions series whitewash
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The final Test match of this series had everything - drama, lightning, stoppages and monsoon like conditions which made it a very eventful game between the Lions and the Wallabies in Sydney.
In the end the weather appeared to favour the home side as Australia won 22-12 on the night – with Andy Farrell’s side taking the series victory 2-1.
Chris is joined by former Lions, Andy Nicol and Alex Cuthbert, as well as Aussie great Stephen Moore and ABC broadcaster Quentin Hull with all the on the whistle reaction.
The guys take shelter from the crazy downpours and ask what went right for the Wallabies and what does this result mean for the Lions legacy?!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Five Lives, Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:09.2 | Rugby Union Weekly, Saturday night in Sydney. |
| 0:12.9 | It's just gone past midnight. |
| 0:14.9 | You can hear the hubbub of the bar beneath us. |
| 0:17.5 | Australia 22, British and Irish Lions, 12. The Lions win the series 2-1 but after |
| 0:24.7 | talking all week about winning 3-0 joining the greats of 74 and the greats of |
| 0:29.8 | 27 this was Australia's day in their national stadium and the Lions hopes of |
| 0:35.8 | that greatness and legacy kind of fizzled out in the |
| 0:39.1 | Sydney monsoon what a lineup we've got Andy Nicola former line Alex Cuthbert of former lion |
| 0:45.3 | Quentin Hull of ABC he's been calling one of the most bizarre and chaotic games you ever will |
| 0:50.5 | Quentin I know you do loads of sports but not many would have been at that and we've got a |
| 0:54.4 | wallaby great too, 100 plus caps. Steve Moore played in all three tests against the Lions in 2013. |
| 1:01.0 | I know I say this a lot at the top of these pods Andy but where do we start with a lightning delay of almost 40 minutes. |
| 1:08.0 | It was remarkable. I mean I've never experienced lightning stop. |
| 1:12.5 | Richard Hill, the England team manager, former great line, obviously. He'd just come in from |
| 1:17.8 | being in Argentina and in America. And the England game against America was suspended three |
| 1:23.3 | times for lightning. And I said to him that is that an American protocol that you have to |
| 1:28.3 | stop if there's lightning within 10k said no no it's world rugby I was right well I've |
| 1:32.9 | never experienced it lo and behold in the third testy in Sydney we get it the |
| 1:37.3 | weather all week has been unplayable in Sydney and it showed no sign of getting |
| 1:41.8 | better in fact the weather gods Alex saved their worst for last. |
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