MATCH CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\nPRE-MATCH<\/p>\n
KO T-MIN 80: The Wallabies are in the building, and have confirmed no changes to their side for tonight’s clash. The crowd is building nicely, with a lot of red on the southern stand. Current conditions here are perfect for rugby: clear skies, not a gust of wind in sight, and a lovely temperature for a Brisbane winter evening.<\/p>\n
KO T-MIN 90: Hello and welcome to Rugby.com.au’s coverage of the first British & Irish Lions test against the Wallabies. The crowd is building at a rapid rate, with the sea of red jerseys firmly taking over. No changes for the visitors from the side they named on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Australia 0<\/p>\n
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British & Irish Lions 0<\/p>\n
Tries: <\/p>\n
Con: <\/p>\n
WALLABIES v BRITISH & IRISH LIONS TEAMS<\/p>\n
WALLABIES (15-1):\u00a0\u00a0Tom Wright; Max Jorgensen, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, Len Ikitau, Harry Potter; Tom Lynagh, Jake Gordon; Harry Wilson (capt), Fraser McReight, Nick Champion de Crespigny; Jeremy Williams, Nick Frost; Allan Alaalatoa, Matt Faessler, James Slipper<\/p>\n
Replacements:\u00a0Billy Pollard, Angus Bell, Tom Robertson, Tom Hooper, Carlo Tizzano, Tate McDermott, Ben Donaldson, Andrew Kellaway<\/p>\n
LIONS (15-1):\u00a0Hugo Keenan; Tommy Freeman, Huw Jones, Sione Tuipulotu, James Lowe; Finn Russell, Jamison Gibson-Park; Jack Conan, Tom Curry, Tadhg Beirne; Joe McCarthy, Maro Itoje (capt); Tadhg Furlong, Dan Sheehan, Ellis Genge<\/p>\n
Replacements:\u00a0Ronan Kelleher, Andrew Porter, Will Stuart, Ollie Chessum, Ben Earl, Alex Mitchell, Marcus Smith, Bundee Aki<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Ben O\u2019Keeffe (NZR)<\/p>\n
Assistant Referees:\u00a0Nika Amashukeli (GRU), Andrea Piardi (FIR)<\/p>\n
TMO:\u00a0Richard Kelly (NZR)<\/p>\n
FPRO:\u00a0Eric Gauzins (FFR)<\/p>\n
HOW TO WATCH WALLABIES v BRITISH & IRISH LIONS TONIGHT<\/p>\n
The Wallabies’ clash with the British & Irish Lions will be shown LIVE on Stan Sport and Channel Nine.<\/p>\n
Coverage will be live and ad-free on Stan Sport, slated to start at 7:00 pm AEST with kickoff expected at 8:00 pm AEST.<\/p>\n
It will also be shown on Channel Nine, with coverage starting from 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 12-year wait is over as the Wallabies and British & Irish Lions face off in the opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,6408,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-irish-lions","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}