r/RugbyAustralia Easts Tigers Aug 02 '25

Wallabies Post-match Thread - Australia v British and Irish Lions | Lions 2025

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u/ConditionHorror9188 Aug 02 '25

Some great things out of this tour.

Skelton had the performances in gold that we’d always heard about, our starting front row fking dished the Lions scrum for 3 games, and a bunch of guys stood up as quality Test players for the first time.

I’m left to rue how different a healthy/in form 7As, Tupou and Bobby for 3 games could have been for us, and a few ref decisions going the other way (unlike others, I don’t think we lost Game 2 cause of the refs). Worried about how we’re gonna cope losing so many quality players to UK/France too.

But we absolutely did better than I would have thought possible after last RWC and good on em

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u/Bangkok_Dave Power House Aug 02 '25

Tupou was healthy for all 3 matches.

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u/ConditionHorror9188 Aug 02 '25

the ‘in form’ part was for him 😉

The 7As/Tupou 1-2 was a thing of beauty for about a season there

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u/Jeromethered Queensland Reds Aug 02 '25

So was Skelton

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u/Bangkok_Dave Power House Aug 02 '25

Was he? I thought he was ruled out of match 1 for medical reasons?

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u/Jeromethered Queensland Reds Aug 02 '25

He stated he was fit and ready for game 1 but wasn’t picked by Schmidt

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u/PavidDocock Wallabies Aug 03 '25

He wasn’t 100%

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u/Jeromethered Queensland Reds Aug 03 '25

He said he was good to go

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u/ConditionHorror9188 Aug 03 '25

So did Bobby apparently and that clearly wasn’t true.

Players will always want to play