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Lions Tour 2025

Sword of Justice

Sword of Justice

Alan Cameron (40)
Adam84 said:
storm in a teacup, honestly

Next we will be criticising the grounds for playing music or announcers celebrating home players too much when they read out the lineup

One could argue that slitting the throat as part of the haka is 'stirring the pot' so to speak
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Yeah it is no big deal. Very lazy piece by that journalist. Using his own logic one could claim every piece of banter ever is incendiary. Are the Lions fans or the Barmy Army going to stop calling us convicts? I hope not because no one here gives a fuck about that at all (other than Adelaide people) and it’s an opportunity to return serve.
 
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Greg Davis (50)
I mean it's pretty harmless fun during a festival of rugby.

Surely we can quarantine the grim ultra competitiveness for the three test weeks and celebrate the shared love of the game during the tour matches?
 

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Greg Davis (50)
Anyway from my interactions and observations on twitter, and with a few posters here tbh, the number of Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans playing for the Lions gets a great response every time, which tells me we should only be dialling up the banter on this particular channel.

The more red-faced wobbly necked Poms the better!
 
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Greg Davis (50)
No but none of that surprises me. Weird to have Baa Baas touring as a warm up for the RC rather than a hit and giggle pissup at Twickenham after the actual tests have concluded...
 
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John Hipwell (52)
Dan54 said:
Why would I complain about that Ig?? You desperate or something? I don't get your point.
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Well, you're complaining about other non-issue things happening at the game that are fun, why wouldn't you complain about an anti-authoritarian song?

If the Poms / Northerners are cranky with hearing the truth, then it probably demonstrates they're not as comfortable with having the Hansens, Lowes etc playing for the home countries.

I'd have some sympathy for the home nations, but it's all out seeing they once again do SFA to grow the game outside of their own backyards and pillage other nations i.e. Georgia.
 
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John Hipwell (52)
www.theguardian.com

Australian rugby’s incendiary attitude towards nationality needs extinguishing | Robert Kitson

Wallabies’ great pleasure in focusing on where a Lions player was born is an inflammatory device masked as banter
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Imagine if the same announcer pulls a similar stunt before England’s cricketers play the opening Test of the Ashes series in the very same stadium this November. “West Indian Englishmen Jofra Archer and Jacob Bethell, Pakistani Englishman Shoaib Bashir …” Harmless banter or something more insidious when all that should matter is the three lions on their caps?
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We did the same to KP and Ben Stokes so it's not like this would be something new?

It may also be worth mentioning, for balance, that the current Wallaby squad are a similarly cosmopolitan bunch. The Fijian-born Filipo Daugunu qualifies via residency, while the winger Harry Potter was born in England. Tom Lynagh was born in Italy, for whom his brother Louis now plays, and raised in England. Taniela Tupou is known as the “Tongan Thor” while Hunter Paisami represented Samoa at under-20s level. Noah Lolesio and Will Skelton were also born in New Zealand.
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Some true straw clutching going on in the UK. Sounds like we need to piss off this notion of eligibility through grandparents. It reeks too much of Colonialism and is a constant reminder of the oppression the UK carried out on the world.

Eddie Jones had the similar feedback when he was the English coach, how is this new to the Poms?
 
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Will Genia (78)
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Imagine if the same announcer pulls a similar stunt before England’s cricketers play the opening Test of the Ashes series in the very same stadium this November. “West Indian Englishmen Jofra Archer and Jacob Bethell, Pakistani Englishman Shoaib Bashir …” Harmless banter or something more insidious when all that should matter is the three lions on their caps?
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Doing it to Jofra Archer would be pretty much the same. He moved to the UK as an adult to play cricket.

Jacob Bethell would be less appropriate. He moved to England as a teenager to attend school (on a cricket scholarship) and stayed there.

Shoaib Bashir was born in Surrey. We very clearly wouldn't do the same thing there because it would be entirely untrue and incredibly racist.

It may also be worth mentioning, for balance, that the current Wallaby squad are a similarly cosmopolitan bunch. The Fijian-born Filipo Daugunu qualifies via residency, while the winger Harry Potter was born in England. Tom Lynagh was born in Italy, for whom his brother Louis now plays, and raised in England. Taniela Tupou is known as the “Tongan Thor” while Hunter Paisami represented Samoa at under-20s level. Noah Lolesio and Will Skelton were also born in New Zealand.
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And if a UK ground announcer wanted to make fun of that then go ahead.
 
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