2025 British & Irish Lions tour of Australia

First tour game:
WESTERN FORCE v LIONS, Perth Stadium
11:00 BST today

100-0 to the British Isles Lions

hello /rug/ my dear friend

ready to watch Lowe and Hansen rattle the entire nation of Australia with some classic shithousery

wouldn't mind that Pollock twat picking up a cheeky tour-ending injury too

>>149462058
I'm not your friend, mate

>>149462270
sorry champ

>Western Force
>a team in the far east
>also not a force at rugby

>this is the official thread for a game that comes once every 12 years

>>149462346
They represent Western Australia, the largest state in the world. They are named after the force of their natural resources.

broncGODS would heem both these peems

I hope we will be getting a solid welcome to country ceremony today

just cooked up some sausages for brekkie
ready for some rug

but fruity to watch tennis really isn't it

>>149462554
not like it's a south africa or new zealand tour is it

What are the chances of Western Force pulling an upset victory?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvZALBB8u1U

>>149462727
Not impossible, they kept all but 3 of their Wallabies and Perth is a tough place to play. Not likely though, they are the worst Aus team.

>>149462727
they will need to score more than the lions to achieve it

>>149462769
You know what? That idea just might be crazy enough to work

>>149462812
BOK will have something to say about that. Lions forward pass and holding on before the first try.

BOK is letting the Lions get away with murder at the ruck. Pollock called away every time but no penalty

>>149462637
in a gay contest haha

RUGBY LEAGUE

Tomos Williams looks like a WW1 officer

>>149462915
shouldn't you be in /nrl/ defending minorities rn?

>invitational aus & nz xv

will this be the closest game?

Harvey Beef
what a sponsor

Another forward pass, fucking blow your whistle Ben

Can’t watch this because I don’t have sky
Only local pub showing it is full of deanos and is a greene king pub and the beer is shit.

>>149462953
Not likely, the team is 3/4s Wallabies not good enough to make the test team and 1/4s kiwis not good enough to make the ABs

>>149462968
If only there were perfectly functional websites where you could watch it for freeeee

>>149462968
God you're good for following the rules and not just illegally streaming it
You're a good kid, kid

what the actual fuck are those collars on the Force shirt ahahahaa

>>149462968
https://rugbystreams.me/western-force-vs-british-irish-lions-live/union-lions/stream-1

Just woke up. Whats this gay shit????

>>149463092
Its rugby union mate
the british and irish lions tour of australia
they are playing western force today
its 30 minutes gone and the score is 14-7 to the lions

>>149463092
mostly just Gary Ringrose ethering Aussie's

ye ye ye ye EYEH FIGHT FIGHT IGHT

will this tour revive my dearest /rug/

>>149463181
i fear not friend

disgusting hair on mccarthy
they should enforce some dress codes

Force suck. Lions look like a bunch of gabby twats.

Henry "Pinetree" Pollock

Pietsch's playing like a man possessed

Met the Wallabies today. Yesterday too. Billy Pollard (reserve hooker) was the nicest of the lot. Jeremy Williams agreed to let my son tackle him but the little gobshite chickened out (he's two). AMA

>James Lowe
British, Irish and Peewee Lions

2 Aussies, 3 Kiwis, and 3 South Africans walk into a bar. The bartender says

Why arent the Force winning? A force is stronger than a lion.

>>149463240
Should be called the Western Unstoppable Force tbqh

>>149463240
A weak force is weaker than a strong lion I reckon

>>149463247
They would never lose a game if that was the case.

>>149463240
a stoppable force has met an immovable lion

What happens in the parts of western Australia that aren't Perth

>>149463275
Perthian jealousy

Why has australia produced nothing of cultural relevance in 300 years?

>kiwis and australians complaining about poaching players
kek KEKE

>>149463309
SH doesn't take players from NH

>>149463304
>calling people 'mate'
>surfing
thats pretty good

>>149463322
don't need to when you have the coconut factories next door

>>149463247
Should have been the Bestern Force. Of course you're going to win if you're the best

>>149463343
so true

>>149463343
We would if the rich English and French clubs aren't scooping them up with their mental money. I'm sure they bought the entire Tuilagi family at one point.

>>149463275
Literally just mining and occasional abo domestic violence

>>149463343
As far as I'm concerned all of the islands of the Pacific are part of NZ and Auckland is the capital of Polynesia
Not quite the same really

>>149463343
What are you on about? All of the Wallabies' Polynesian and Melanesian players were born and schooled in Australia. There are more of them in Aus and NZ than in their shithole islands. Tonga has a lower population than suburbs of our cities.

ahhahaha he hurt himself. Good.

The geriatric Sam Carter has looked so bad, the Force would probably be winning if Schmidt hadn't held back Jeremy Williams

>le ball at unique expert angle
>an artist with the kicking tee
>miss

Another forward pass

these pozzies stink

>British & Irish Lions
Why do they play together?

Why not just call the team the British Isles?

>>149463597
They used to just call it the British Lions which is still quite accurate, but the Irish are like a blue haired barista in their need to have special words for them

>>149463597
Reckon England should leave the United Kingdom. No benefit to them in being a part of it.

>>149463577
because if they didn't there wouldn't be a welshman alive who has beaten new zealand

>>149463625
It would be cruel to force the Scots to self-govern, they aren't ready yet.

>>149463641
You've Scot to be kidding me!

>>149463641
It’d just be EU rule stead of english, they’d be aight

Loose carry. Send him home.

Whos winning the story?

>>149463074
Don’t fancy giving my computer aids thanks

>>149463708
Looking at the empty stands, the entire "Lions" tour has lost the story. I assume I am the story winner because all I do is win.

>>149463681
That'd be even worse.

Western lack of Force lmfao

Dont think I learned anything watching this match.

Western Farts

Scintillating attack there from Donaldson

The Worstern Force

>pick all the Leinster lads
>win
Yeah this team is D4 dominated from here on out, bongs showed they can’t be trusted after the Argentina performance

British and Irish Lions - 54
Newcastle Hunter Rugby Union - 5
Randwick Rugby - 2
All other Australian unions - 0

>>149463966
Fair breakdown

Sharks had 71pts put on them 4 years ago by the Lions. The Sharks are the 3rd best team in the URC.

Lions had 54pts put on them. The Force are the 3rd worst team in Super Rugby.

>>149464039
I really really hope the australians clean sweep the lions in the tests.

>>149464140
It's definitely the weakest Lions team in quite some time, but Australia is also quite weak at the moment. It's certainly the weakest TRC nation and worse than 3 of the 4 British sides. Home ground advantage might be enough, unfortunately we're playing the third test in Sydney where we always always lose, and the second is in Melbourne where our record is also poor. We MUST win the first test to even have a chance but I just can't see us winning two

>>149464227
you WILL win. Visualize it. Create your own reality.

I still don't know what the fuck ARU was doing firing Rennie only months into the RWC, then hiring Jones who's clearly well past it, who then shat the bed and left without elaboration.

>>149464516
Has it occurred to you that RA has been a terrible organisation for the entire professional era? The next Wallabies coach is a guy who's never managed better than a QF finish with a very solid Reds side or in Europe in quite a few attempts and has fuckall national coaching experience even though Cheika and Larkham and McKellar were on offer.

>>149464516
the Mourinho of rugby la

>>149465268
It continues to boggle the mind. Australia has access to world-class athletes, yet can't mold a consistently good rugby team out of them. How did Mack Hansen end up in Ireland for example

South Africa Rugby vs Barbarians

https://vipleague. im/rugby/south-africa-vs-barbarians-streaming-link-1

>>149467118
Another blowout shitter game, Theres going to be an actual proper game of Rugby on today, the Top 14 Final in just over 3 bongs.

>>149468185
Yeah.
This match is a slaughter.

BokGODS do it again. Quiver in fear all ye who dare cross the mighty bokke

>>149463343
Hey my nigga

based autist

MLR
https://vipleague. im/rugby/major-league-rugby-final-new-england-free-jacks-vs-houston-sabercats-streaming-link-1

new
>>149472911
>>149472911
>>149472911

>new thread when this is just in the 100s

>>149466392
The most mind-boggling one is Jack Dempsey, an actual Wallaby now playing for Scotland. There's no way he flew under the radar.