In 2013, the ultimate moments of the British and Irish Lions’ first Take a look at win in opposition to Australia had the complete Suncorp Stadium gripped.
Alternative Kurtley Beale slipped, when making an attempt to transform a match-winning penalty, and the Lions escaped to lead the series 1-0.
Drama. Pleasure. Edge-of-your-seat stuff. It’s what makes the Lions so particular.
Quick ahead 12 years and Andy Farrell’s facet additionally delivered at Suncorp Stadium with a 27-19 victory – the Lions’ ninth straight win in Brisbane.
The outcome was the identical however the feeling was completely different.
“It’s surreal for the Lions to win a Take a look at match away from residence and for there to not be absolute jubilation and bedlam,” stated BBC rugby union correspondent Chris Jones.
“This Lions staff will really feel they’ve extra gears to undergo, and it might have been rather a lot worse. There was loads of good stuff from the Lions.”
Certainly the Lions had been so dominant within the first 50 minutes the result was by no means doubtful.
Farrell’s facet raced out of the blocks to steer 17-5 at half-time after tries by Sione Tuipulotu and Tom Curry. A 12-point lead didn’t do justice to their efficiency.
Finn Russell at his mercurial greatest was dominating his face to face with rookie Australia fly-half Tom Lynagh and, in partnership with scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park, was operating the present.
Flankers Tom Curry and Tadgh Beirne, each of whom responded to questions over whether or not their kind warranted a beginning spot, had been bossing the bodily battle.
Prop Ellis Genge and hooker Dan Sheehan had been battering Australia’s defensive position.
“The Lions appeared battle-hardened, prepared and a number of the clunky stuff within the warm-ups had gone,” former Lion Tom Shanklin instructed the BBC. “They appeared sharp in assault, they knew what they had been doing and Australia ran out of choices.
“Finn Russell and Gibson-Park had been high quality. The best way they pull the strings, the time they’ve on the ball, their decision-making makes everybody’s jobs a lot simpler.”
Andy Nicol, a Lions vacationer in Australia in 2001, heaped reward on Curry and Beirne.
“Tom Curry was off the dimensions,” he instructed the BBC’s Rugby Union Weekly. “He smashed gamers in touch and his metres after contact was wonderful as properly.
“Beirne was man of the match and performed the complete recreation, Curry performed 57 minutes and I’d fortunately have given it to him. He was excellent, so was Maro Itoje.”
