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LIONS TOUR TO AUSTRALIA 2025

It was their first series win since 1997 and went to the deciding Test match in Sydney in front of the one of the biggest British & Irish Lions crowds ever.

The Tour to Australia in 2013 was a memorable journey across one of the most beautiful countries in the world and was a crowning glory for head coach Warren Gatland.

This was the Lions’ first Tour to Australia since 2001 and under the captaincy of Sam Warburton, they got off to a winning start in Brisbane. George North scored one of the greatest Lions Test tries of all time in a nervy victory in front of thousands of Lions fans.

Ahead of the second Test in Melbourne, Australia was awash with red as fans soaked up the delights of the Whitsunday Islands, Cairns, the Gold Coast, Uluru and much more. The Wallabies ground their way to victory to level the series and take four years of work down to the final 80 minutes in Sydney.

But roared on by a monstrous Sea of Red in the third Test, the Lions soared to one of their most comprehensive Test wins ever, dismantling Australia 41-16 to set the seal on the series.  Click here to secure early access for Australia 2025 .

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In a groundbreaking move, the British & Irish Lions officially have unveiled a historic partnership with Premiership Rugby and the United Rugby Championship for the highly anticipated 2025 Lions Tour to Australia. 

This strategic collaboration is a testament to the collective commitment of various rugby stakeholders to work together for the betterment of the sport. 

The partnership, forged after extensive consultations, signifies a joint effort to elevate the overall experience of the Tour. 

Ben Calveley, CEO of the British & Irish Lions, expressed gratitude for the support from Premiership Rugby and the United Rugby Championship, highlighting the importance of collaboration with the clubs, seen as custodians of potential Lions players. 

“It is crucial that this agreement benefits not just The British & Irish Lions but also Premiership Rugby and United Rugby Championship," Calveley emphasized. "Our ambition is to make 2025 the greatest Lions Tour ever, and we believe the opportunities for collaboration across marketing, promotional, and wider activity will add significant value to all organizations.” 

Premiership Rugby has agreed to a landmark partnership with @lionsofficial and @URCOfficial ! The partnership will see all parties work collaboratively alongside their clubs to enhance the British & Irish Lions Tour 💪 Click below to read more ⤵️ — Premiership Rugby (@premrugby) November 16, 2023

The key aspect of this partnership is the alignment of the Tour schedule, ensuring that all selected British & Irish Lions players will be available for pre-tour activities. This synchronicity extends to a collaborative approach to digital content, events, key announcements, as well as other marketing and promotional activities. 

Ieuan Evans, Chairperson of The British & Irish Lions Board, underlined the significance of unity and collaboration, especially considering recent challenges such as the global pandemic. 

“Australia in 2025 represents a significant opportunity to claim our first Lions Series win since 2013,” Evans noted, emphasizing the critical role this partnership plays in achieving success on the pitch. 

Simon Massie-Taylor, CEO of Premiership Rugby, echoed the excitement surrounding the partnership, emphasizing the importance of close collaboration with all stakeholders. 

“Giving our players and The British & Irish Lions the best possible preparation time in history is vital for both the Lions and Premiership Rugby as we support each other on and off the pitch," Massie-Taylor said. 

Martin Anayi, CEO of the United Rugby Championship, highlighted the league's longstanding support for the British & Irish Lions and its role in fostering collaboration. He expressed enthusiasm for the upcoming tour to Australia in 2025, foreseeing new levels of collaboration that will captivate a broader sporting audience and bring dedicated fans closer to the stories of their heroes. 

In summary, the historic partnership announced for the 2025 British & Irish Lions Tour to Australia signifies a pivotal moment in rugby, demonstrating a united front among key stakeholders to enhance the sport's global appeal and deliver an unprecedented experience for players, fans, and organizations alike.

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Lions Series Global Charity Partner sought for 2025 Tour

The British & Irish Lions and Rugby Australia are seeking to appoint a Lions Series Global Charity Partner (GCP) for the 2025 Lions Tour to Australia .

The appointment of a GCP forms part of the Lions Environmental, Social, Stakeholder & Governance (ESSG) strategy, named the People. Place. Pride. programme. The Lions is a force for good in sport and society and it believes that proudly putting people and places at the heart of their work, will help achieve the ambition of making 2025 the greatest Lions Tour ever and leave a lasting Lions legacy.

The key objectives of the Lions Series Global Charity Partnership are to support a charity that enhances and promotes the spirit of the Lions and the Game, helping to raise awareness, increase engagement and support fundraising through digital promotion and collaborative events; to create incredible experiences that broaden and deepen connections with Lions and Wallabies global fans; and to impact positively on the communities engaged with.

The GCP will run alongside the existing, official charities of the British & Irish Lions (BIL) and Rugby Australia (RA).

Following a shortlisting process, a selection of charities may be invited to present their proposals to the LTAU GCP Project Team for consideration.

The deadline for submissions for interested parties is Monday 20 May 2024, with those who would like to apply requested to email Lynn Cleckner at [email protected] for more information.

Those charities who have been shortlisted, as well as unsuccessful applicants, will be notified on 10 June, with presentations from shortlisted charities to take place between 17-19 June.

LTAU intends for a decision on the GCP appointment to be confirmed and for the successful appointment to commence in early August.

The partnership will run until 31 December 2025.

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British and Irish Lions partner with Whisper to form new content production arm

Lions productions will produce official documentary of 2025 tour and be responsible for in-house content offering..

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The British and Irish Lions have teamed up with production company Whisper to create a new in-house production division ahead of the rugby union side’s 2025 tour to Australia.

• Lions Productions to produce the official documentary for the 2025 tour and be responsible for in-house content production and exclusive behind-the-scenes content, including for the newly formed Lions Women’s team
• Lions Productions to also act as the in-tour productions company for Lions partners
• Whisper will film all in-camp content incorporating broadcast, highlight packages and official digital content

The Lions and Whisper previously partnered for the team’s 2021 tour to South Africa, which included producing the Emmy-nominated ‘Two Sides’ all-access documentary. The decision to form the in-house Lions Productions is intended to offer more in-depth content for fans throughout next summer’s tour.

“We are delighted to announce the formation of Lions Productions with Whisper which presents a milestone moment for the British and Irish Lions,” said Ben Calveley, chief executive of the British and Irish Lions.

“For the first time the Lions now has an exclusive, in-house content offering which will allow us to bring fans premium and engaging content throughout our tour cycle. We know how important connecting with our fans is and Lions Productions will allow us to do so like never before as well as providing greater value for our partners.”

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T he British and Irish Lions composite rugby union touring organization has today unveiled a multi-year partnership with UK sports and TV production firm Whisper.

Through the deal, the duo have created the Lions Productions arm, which will produce a documentary covering the men's team’s tour of Australia in mid-2025. In addition, Lions Productions will produce an array of in-house and behind-the-scenes content for the Lions’ women’s team, which launched in January and will tour New Zealand in 2027.

The deal builds on - and formalizes - an original deal between the Lions and Whisper which was struck in advance of the team’s tour of South Africa in 2021. Out of that trip, the documentary Two Sides was created by Whisper.

As was the case with that tour, Whisper will film the entire array of in-camp content that is produced in Australia - for broadcast, digital platforms, and highlights clips and packages.

The production firm will also act in an official capacity for the range of sponsors which will activate with the Lions in Australia, across the three tests in July and August next year.

That stable of commercial partners - at the moment - includes Fanatics, Canterbury, and Howden  (front-of-shirt sponsor).

Whisper adds this contract to its extensive rugby union content portfolio, having been a multi-year production partner for the World Rugby governing body, and having produced a show for the New Zealand Rugby official streaming platform, NZR+, during the men’s Rugby World Cup last year.

In addition, the company is a production partner for the Welsh Rugby Union, and broadcaster S4C in Wales , as well as for the BBC (the UK public-service broadcaster) for the Women’s Six Nations competition.

Ben Calveley, the British and Irish Lions chief executive, said: “The formation of Lions Productions with Whisper presents a milestone moment … For the first time the Lions now has an exclusive, in-house content offering which will allow us to bring fans premium and engaging content throughout our tour cycle.”

In March, the Lions - alongside Rugby Australia - entered into an exclusive tie-up with the Pitch International sports marketing agency .

The two organizations have appointed Pitch as the sole international media rights distribution partner for the tour of Australia.

Carys Owens, managing director at Whisper Cymru (its Welsh division), added: “Our last partnership brought great success and we will once again draw on the expertise of our documentary, digital, entertainment, and broadcast teams to produce exciting content for this groundbreaking agreement.”

The Australia tour marks the first time since 2013 that the country will play host to the Lions, which as a side is made up of players from England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

The three tests are set for July 18 (Brisbane), July 26 (Melbourne), and August 2 (Sydney).

In mid-October, the Lions unveiled IMG, the global sports and entertainment agency,  as their worldwide licensing agency through 2027 .

In early 2023, meanwhile, the Lions and Rugby Australia launched a joint venture to combine their respective commercial offerings for the tour and brought in CSM as the tour’s exclusive sponsorship agent .

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The full schedule has been confirmed for rugby's Autumn Internationals, with the giants of the Southern Hemisphere once again coming to take on the Six Nations teams in a busy month of rugby.

England will have Tests against New Zealand and Australia before hosting world champions South Africa, a repeat of their World Cup semi-final, before completing their run of fixtures against Japan.

Six Nations champions Ireland have Friday night matches against New Zealand and Argentina ahead of further games against Fiji and Australia, while the All Blacks' autumn tour also contains trips to France and Italy.

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South Africa also take on Scotland and Wales during their three-Test tour, with Scotland having further games against Fiji, Portugal and Australia during a busy November. Wales' meeting with the Springboks follows matches with Fiji and Australia.

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Rugby’s rulers ignore the game’s marvellous heritage at their peril

The sport’s appeal is not just the shiny and new. It is also about tradition, fellowship and memories forged on small stages

S ome of us went back in time at the weekend. There was no Doctor Who-style Tardis involved, just an easyJet flight (beware their petty hand luggage regulations) to Scotland for a reunion of old student friends. It was good fun and, certain hairlines aside, reassuring to find out how little people had changed in the 40-odd years since we first encountered each other in the stylish salons – OK, the saloon bars and Spud-U-Like shops – of Edinburgh in the 1980s.

And because it was a lovely afternoon on Saturday and we fancied reminding ourselves of our former athletic selves, a few of us decided to wander up the road and take in a game of club rugby. Heriot’s v Watsonians playing in – checks notes – the FOSROC Super Series Sprint. Sitting behind the posts at Goldenacre, with the sun shining and Edinburgh’s ancient skyline shimmering in the distance, the evocative old venue really did seem appropriately named. We all enjoyed the day immensely.

As it happened, the Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend was also there, watching his 22-year-old son Christian playing at full-back for Heriot’s. And when we piled into the clubroom for a mutton pie – £2, don’t examine the filling too closely – it was impossible to miss the large number of framed photographs of ex-Scotland internationalists hanging on the wall. You know you’re getting older when faces of a vaguely similar vintage are now dripping in sepia.

By sheer coincidence, one of our number found himself staring up at a picture of his own grandfather. Back in the day Dan Drysdale was one of the foremost full-backs of his era, a stand-out player both for Scotland and the British & Irish Lions. The late Clem Thomas, in his History of the British Lions, described Drysdale as having “played marvellously throughout as a running full-back” during the 1924 tour to South Africa. The following year, in 1925, he was a similarly key member of the first Scotland side in history to secure a grand slam.

Almost exactly a century later, it felt a timely moment to pay our respects to the fabled legend. Just as it did, a little further along the row of pictures, to touch the (vanished) forelock in tribute to another brilliant local full-back. Even in faraway rural England, some of us saw Andy Irvine as a supreme sporting hero, his constant can-do enthusiasm for counter-attacking among the global game’s most glorious sights. It reached the point where my adolescent mind started to wonder if “Heriot’s FP” stood for “Fabulous Players” rather than “Former Pupils”.

Remarkably, another celebrated attacking Test full-back, Ken Scotland, was educated at the same establishment, making the lineage even more impressive. People used to talk about whistling down the mines of northern England for fast bowlers or monitoring the production line at Max Boyce’s Welsh fly-half factory. If there is a Scottish equivalent for full-backs, it can be found a well-struck punt away from Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden.

Which begged a slightly broader question. If the Heriot’s No 15 jersey rates among the most mythical of British and Irish club jerseys, which other garments merit potential inclusion in the ultimate kitbag? The blue and black No 9 of Cardiff should certainly be in the frame, with Gareth Edwards and Terry Holmes just two of the distinguished alumni to have worn it. How about the red Munster No 10 jersey, worn so memorably by, among others, Tony Ward and Ronan O’Gara? Or the blue Leinster No 13 shirt, forever synonymous with Brian O’Driscoll?

There are plenty more contenders, clearly, just as there are endless old stadiums inhabited by the ghosts of rugby’s past. If you are passing Redruth, for example, go and pay homage to “Hellfire Corner” and imagine the ominous studs of ferocious Cornish packs of yesteryear clattering towards you. Or, alternatively, stand for a while in the Shed at Kingsholm and visualise those cold, dark evenings when Cherry & White forwards would eat innocent Oxbridge half-backs for tea, howled on by home supporters who, in many cases, viewed a trip to Cheltenham as an exotic awayday.

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In short, we are talking about heritage. Rugby has loads of it and, right now, it is not terribly in fashion. The professional game has morphed into something very different – vastly improved in numerous respects, less fabulous in others – and anonymous-looking new stadia have largely replaced the old school cathedrals.

Which is fine, up to a point. Any game that stands still will stagnate; a sport that lives in the past is inevitably doomed. But when, the other week, the hugely promising England forward, Chandler Cunningham-South, confessed to having no idea his mentor Richard Hill had been a World Cup winning flanker in 2003 it further served to underline how quickly rugby’s once-central pillars can fade into the background.

The aforementioned FOSROC Super Series, introduced as recently as 2019, is the latest casualty, set to be scrapped this year in the ceaseless pursuit of change. Exactly how the Scottish domestic scene will look in future remains unclear but mutton pies, old school full-backs and simple pleasures are not obviously part of the zeitgeist. If it is smart, though, the game will realise rugby’s appeal is not just about the shiny and the new. It is also built on tradition, fellowship and an enduring truth: the best sporting memories are not always created on the biggest of stages or the most high-profile of days.

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