Wallabies v Lions - 3rd Test, Accor Stadium, Saturday 2 August

[KOB1987]

all the stuff they are whinging about this week is what we were whinging about last week and they don't see the irony. And we were whinging about one call that would have won the game. Lions got belted

I’ve seen some beauties on the socials today - Lions didn’t pick the best players, were on the booze all week, didn’t care about the game, and my favorite, that Skelton deliberately kneed Ryan in the head - to name a few.

 

[Willin1]

I’ve seen some beauties on the socials today - Lions didn’t pick the best players, were on the booze all week, didn’t care about the game, and my favorite, that Skelton deliberately kneed Ryan in the head - to name a few.

Sounds like a bunch of smarting Lion’s supporters doing a windup.

 

[BDA]

One of the narratives theyre running with is that the terrible conditions suited us (after they pretty much all predicted the conditions would play to their advantage). I think in some ways the conditions did help us execute a fairly simple game plan but the mental gymnastics is amusing.

Iv also seen a lot of uk pundits blaming the loss on their mid game injuries. Its rich given that we've been negatively impacted by injuries throughout the series much more than the lions

 

[cyclopath]

One of the narratives theyre running with is that the terrible conditions suited us (after they pretty much all predicted the conditions would play to their advantage). I think in some ways the conditions did help us execute a fairly simple game plan but the mental gymnastics is amusing.

Iv also seen a lot of uk pundits blaming the loss on their mid game injuries. Its rich given that we've been negatively impacted by injuries throughout the series much more than the lions

Self-awareness might not be their strong suit. Imagine claiming to be uncomfortable with shit weather coming from that part of the world.

 

[Major Tom]

One of the narratives theyre running with is that the terrible conditions suited us (after they pretty much all predicted the conditions would play to their advantage). I think in some ways the conditions did help us execute a fairly simple game plan but the mental gymnastics is amusing.

Iv also seen a lot of uk pundits blaming the loss on their mid game injuries. Its rich given that we've been negatively impacted by injuries throughout the series much more than the lions

Yeah we really know how to deal with lightening strikes.
Man I never thought I’d see the day where wet weather is seen as an upside to our game rather than a mega team from the UK. Not on my bingo card.
I guess it follows the bazball narrative where you just pivot instead of facing up to the realisation that you lost.

 

[Adam84]

To quote Chat GPT...
"
Here’s how the profit split works for the 2025 British & Irish Lions tour of Australia:

• Rugby Australia (the host nation) will receive 60 % of the post‑tour profits.
• The British & Irish Lions organisation (including the four home unions, players and designated clubs) will take the remaining 40 %"

The post-tour profits you'd imagine would be severly dented by the cost of both squads (incl. assist. coaches, fitness personnel, medical staff, players immediate families etc.) airline tickets, accomodation and so on.

I think ChatGPT is wrong here.

From what has been released, RA and Lions reached profit sharing agreement prior to the tour which groups together all broadcast, licensing and sponsorship revenue in a joint venture between the two bodies, but match-day revenue/ticketsales is purely for RA. Likewise any pre-tournament fixtures are revenue purely for the Lions.

AFR suggests that RA will take around $70million from match-day income, and $30million from the join venture revenue. So $100million in total with the Lions also taking home $30million from the JV

*these were loose pre-tour estimates

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

It's really turned out to be a commercial bonanza for RA. Hopefully we use it as a launching pad for bigger and better things.

 

[drewprint]

It was the best Wallabies performance in a decade. The Lions won the Series, so I'm not sure how wrong I was

White had a blinder and our pack torched theirs. So yep pretty wrong. As in the norm for you. Sucked in Marce.

 

[SteveWA]

Self-awareness might not be their strong suit. Imagine claiming to be uncomfortable with shit weather coming from that part of the world.

Isn’t this week summer over there?

 

[Crashy]

Don't worry KOB, the real losers are the fans who have to get on planes now and return to the UK.

the problem is the whining keeps going after they turn the engines off.

 

[LevitatingSocks]

Isn’t this week summer over there?

Few things are more miserable than London in the summer because half the infrastructure isn't built to handle the heat with proper AC.

 

[TSR]

We simply have to pick overseas based players

We can now. I would have thought the current series was an excellent example that the locally based players, complemented by a small number of OS based (in this case 1) can get the job done.