British & Irish Lions 2001 Tour to Australia Rugby Union

[@SimDeck]

I find it truly inspiring to see the Irish and British flags displayed side by side, each flown with such pride during these tours. It’s a powerful symbol of unity, reminding us that even amidst our differences, we can stand together with respect and shared purpose. This simple yet profound image fills me with hope, making the world seem like a more harmonious place. It’s vital that this sense of togetherness, embodied by these flags, transcends beyond moments of ceremony and becomes a principle that guides our everyday interactions. In a world often divided, such symbols remind us of the strength found in unity and mutual respect.

[@BrettHammond-s8h]

Excellent documentary. Thank you for providing this

[@jerolamp2924]

This kind of stuff is gold. Interesting to see so many of the great England players of 2003 starting to blossom at this stage. #lionstour2021

[@jerolamp2924]

@MY ASSHOLE IS GASPING FOR AIR Considering your name thats quite funny.

[@padraiglocke8844]

Many thanks from New York, a joy to see my Rugby hero BoD and O Gara as a 20 year old , before I immigrated I saw him many times playing for UCD and Leinster, met him and he was always the same guy you see on Tv in later years, Jason Robinson and Johnny on the same team as BOD just perfect!!this is the best sports documentary ever to me !!!

[@Bobbibouchersmumwasright]

This confirms my suspicion that Austin Healy is a complete knob!! 💯

[@fitnessisgood4u]

And him and Scott Quinnell seem to have more hair in 2021, than they did 20 years prior... ;-)

[@Bobbibouchersmumwasright]

@Joegamer55 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant made my Sunday.... especially when Jaws 3 is on as well!! 😱😱🤣🤣

[@johnlangdon7576]

My Club calls him Mr Mega Cunt, we were a demo team on rugby tonight BT sport and asked if we could have a team photo with him, he said no he was busy but he just chipped off to play table tennis.... but on the other hand Gareth Thomas was a complete gentleman he took pics and signed stuff for us ...top bloke

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Very talented player but nowhere near as talented as he thought he was

[@BS15RED]

Asking Austin Healy not to be a knob is like asking water not to be wet….

[@markenglish8719]

Parts of this are so motivational.. not just for the game but how to approach life... Inspirational!

[@oliprj8676]

James Robson sending a happy birthday message to his 3 year old daughter who is now 22! Frightening how fast the time has gone 👀

[@brettwilkinson9529]

That Steve Black would have to be the fittest looking Fitness Conditioner I have ever seen.

[@MGilly1231]

Watching Wilkinson sat distraught after the 3rd test by himself was painful, to do what he did two years later in the same stadium against the same opposition. What a legend of the game.

[@jingleballix]

I was there.......jumping for joy in Brisbane........taking a pie in the head in Canberra..........philosophical in Melbourne.........crying in Sydney.

[@YARROWS9]

Martin Johnson is the hardest Lions Skipper since Finley Calder.

[@qwerty69600]

Unbelievable how much bigger players have become in 20 years. Watched a video of Haskell mucking around with Farrell during a training camp and Farrell is carrying so much more muscle mass than, say, Catt or any of the other centres in this video. And Haskell... he's like a different species. Even "big" guys like Lawro and Johnson... they're about the same size as George North and he plays on the wing/centre. Not making any comparison to skill level or anything, but strength and power, the modern players are goliaths.

[@patrickharrison871]

I think your comparison is a bit over stated. The baggy kits makes the players look less muscular-there are plenty of players in this games that are as athletic and heavy as modern players. Joe Roff is as big as George North and actually quicker. Danny Grewcock in 2001 was as tall and actually heavier than Maro Itoje (Grewcock was a monstrous athlete). Richard Hill was bigger than 2021 6N player of the tournament Hamish Watson. I think the average weight has certainly gone up but thats just guys chugging more protein powder and lifting weights a lot more, they arent better athletes per se.

[@pitaberaciri8366]

I watched this team have a light training run in Queens Park Brisbane before there test at the Gabba . There was nothing small about this Lions team there pack was massive it was huge , it was great experience watching them train

[@davidparsons3432]

Fantastic insight into a great contest.....

[@judaspriest4957]

This is a series which we should really have won. Australia were a top side around this time but they were there for the taking. I feel if we had Dalaglio and Greenwood for the tests, Hill and Howley for the third, we really should and would have won

[@cormacdoyle2433]

One hundred percent we should have won unlike in 1997 where we hung on in the 2nd test and won we were blown away vs Australia and just could never recover by the 3rd

[@shane-irish]

Should off won this tour had a great side

[@roshansingh8040]

thank you so much for posting this!

[@matthewsenior4208]

Obviously Andy Robinson doesn’t give a damn about player welfare, screaming at the physio to keep players on. Coaches to full of themselves and working the players too hard lost them this tour.

[@powerbite92]

That Lions test team never scored a point in the last 20 minutes of those games. Because they were overtrained and their energy ran out. Then the coaches had the chutzpah to shout at the players that theyre not performing well enough at the end of the matches.

[@xpat73]

Ironically this 2001 Lions team was 10x better than the 1997 Lions. But the 1997 team is remembered for winning (although they were very lucky and played no rugby really in the tests). The 2001 Lions played far better ruby and lost.

[@brettwilkinson9529]

If Wilkinson hadn't missed so many kicks at goal , they would have won too. Jenkins never missed in 1997.

[@DeclanMcCabe-v8k]

@@brettwilkinson9529also think not having Will Greenwood was a massive loss to the team.

[@stevestone07]

Funny! it all went pair shaped after Dawson threw his toys out of the pram! he should have been sent home.....

[@robf81]

Very very true

[@neilcarpenter2669]

Nonsense, one of the best squads the Lions ever assembled lost because the management didn't listen to the players who repeatedly told them that they were overtraining, they were knackered. If the management had listened they would have won 3 zip a belief shared by the conditioning coach Steve Black who told the management but was ignored. The idea that the Lions lost because of a newspaper article is laughable.

[@judaspriest4957]

Send him home and you've got Andy Nicol at SH for the 3rd test

[@fiachraswaz]

Not a patch on the living with the lions

[@paulmulryne8405]

Not seen this for years. Watching it now, you can see it’s not a totally happy tour. It’s not explicit (apart from Dawson being a knob) just the odd little thing like the conversations in training before the 3rd test.

[@oliprj8676]

Austin Healey was a complete bellend too

[@paulmulryne8405]

OLI PRJ I think you mean is, don’t you? 😂

[@oliprj8676]

@@paulmulryne8405 yeah 🤣

[@essealants3730]

Austin, trying to imitate john bently from the 97 tour is showing how badly he envies good old john,

[@360degreeslimerick]

Can anyone please tell me what the song with the bagpipes in the very last minute is and the musicians name? Great Video! Thanks

[@milldoozer999]

How was this almost 20 years ago???

[@josecg6990]

I hadn't seen this one in ages, thanks!! Any chance you have the NZ tour of 2005? That one I never watched..

[@jerolamp2924]

No highlights from that tour, can't create much tension from a 3-0 drubbing.

[@josecg6990]

@@jerolamp2924 well '97 and '13 were won in the second test and both have documentaries, I bet there was a lot of interesting stuff to see anyway. It's just weird they didn't bother :(

[@josecg6990]

Wrong! the second test in '13 drew the series up to the 3rd test, my bad...

[@jerolamp2924]

@@josecg6990 It was meant as a tongue in cheek comment, but thats the reality of the typed format.

[@jerolamp2924]

@@josecg6990 BOD getting thrown on his head would probably be to controversial.

[@hjhs5922]

Would have loved to have seen Greenwood 12 BOD 13 in the tests if WG was fit

[@tomhearne5302]

Didn't realize how poor the referring was in they last test match

[@sentientbean1]

Still salty!

[@tomhearne5302]

@@sentientbean1 Not at all. All I said was the referee was poor.

[@judaspriest4957]

Don't forget the second test where Hill was taken out off the ball by Nathan Greys elbow

[@richardscrivens6311]

I don't think that Graham Henry should have been coach for this tour

[@thadtuiol1717]

Wow, 2001, just before everything went to shit on 9/11. Things have just been getting worse ever since.

[@dalewilson9602]

So true

[@countycricklewood]

Robinson! That try!

[@australianhistory6908]

Interesting to see the perspective of the UK teams from an Aussie. A lot of emphasis on speeches etc pre game, wonder if it's as big a thing now. Seems almost distracting. Duncan McRae is an absolute grub, these days I think there would be a bigger penalty for what is essentially a straight up assault. I still think on balance Australia deserved to win this given it was our champion team

[@australianhistory6908]

Just did some reading and it turns out this is just Graham Henry nonsense. The endless shouting pre match would just be demoralising. Little wonder the camp didn't like it

[@robertroberts2666]

Rob, why can't real clubs like Pooler, Ponty, Ebbw and Newbridge get together and form a valley's alliance against the nefarious global tactics employed by the Wruination and their centralisation of power around the cities and the one horse town of Llanelli? Surely, all we have to say is "No!"

[@MrPenyclawdd]

Always thought that myself.

[@neilfitzgerald1410]

@@MrPenyclawdd MR NEIL FITZGERALD IS AFTER ENGLAND GRAND SLAM 1980 BBC VIDEO MR NEIL FITZGERALD PLEASE

[@garytaylor6408]

British Lions? Good job there was no place for the Irish on this tour then... I thought we were well past that crap

[@kennethkilleen8758]

@@garytaylor6408 the irish players shouldn't have played under the British lions flag.. More Shame on them.

[@MrPenyclawdd]

@@neilfitzgerald1410 sorry nothing

[@wobblertv8083]

The one that got away ..losing Richard hill was the turning point .Australia targeted him .

[@randyschwaggins]

I'd love to see a combined Aus/NZ/SA team tour the UK and play 3 tests against a Lions team

[@mattybhoy6522]

Would be cool. Tour the lions countries every four years. Maybe not Scotland. Don't wanna put 100 in them lol

[@judaspriest4957]

Phil Greening is a very unfortunately forgotten player but he was a very very good player unfortunately blighted by injury. RIP Blackie & Tom Smith ❤

[@russoswerve7856]

Of course referring to Steve Black the fitness coach and Tom Smith the Scottish prop

[@christopherdale7017]

Why the Wallabies(Australia) were Number one and World Champions in 2001 and had they retained that same team with 2003 with Tim Horan they would of retained the William Webb Ellis Trophy.

[@antonycotton6094]

Why wasn't Bracken Worsley and Townsend called in Dawson Quinnell and Jenkins who misbehaved or Knee Injury Matt Perry never played another Test Under Woodward Golden Era Bracken should have come for Howley not Nicol

[@ryanbonner25]

do u guys think we should've had a 'southern hemisphere' coach on a tour like that and ...................................................................................................................................................ince, fook that, takes the shine off the tours... think avbbout it............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ nah

[@russoswerve3974]

Who else forgot how annoying/creepy Austin Healey was?

[@Bobbibouchersmumwasright]

I can’t stand that guy 😡

[@wobblertv8083]

Dreadfull little man .....with a huge Napoleon complex .

[@Mojo-IRE]

Now Matt Dawson is writing stupid articles himself for a living.

[@Bobbibouchersmumwasright]

1:10:15 the coach calls Healy c@@t I think lol

[@Rogue66669]

Graham Henry should have never been near coaching the Lions, just think it was a wrong fit at the time. Think he even says he shouldn't have accepted the role.

[@brentbecroft2890]

1:45.05 - we’ll bat, hahaha.

[@declanmccabe9063]

At least one England captain knows that you bat first at the Gabba.

[@MrClean-ms4nx]

Then England beat them 2 years later at their own RWC - and Australian hasn't won another since '99

[@John_Wood_]

The start of the corporate shite

[@russoswerve7856]

2:19:00

[@scrounger-h8i]

who the fuck are the "british lions"?

[@MyJoe2209]

You forgot Irish part. Donal Lenihan etc.. Are not British🙈🙈

[@MrPenyclawdd]

sorted sorry for offence! Not intentional

[@garethdavies2145]

Worst Lions shirt! NTL logo looked awful

[@thewhitedoncheadle8345]

seemed such a dull and boring tour