On Thursday, Andy Fareel finished a tad, but you knew where he was coming from. The coach said that his boys were bidding for history on Saturday as the same country, 2013 and possibly were the only Lions team to win a back-to-back series in 2025. He was wrong. This has been done earlier, but it is not common.
A better way to present it is that they are bidding only to become a second Lions team to go up 2–0 in a series in 28 years, the third and only seventh time to do it in 51 years, this great thing started in 1888.
The 1997 ‘Everest’ tour was the most recent time when Lions won the first two tests of a series. Perhaps this was a coincidence, but captain then, Martin Johnson presented a jerseys to the team in Melbourne on Thursday evening.
On Saturday, four of the early line-ups of Paarel were not born (Chasam, Tom Curry, Tommy Freeman and Dan Sheehan), two of them were one year old (Andrew Porter and Hugo Keenan), Itezae were two, Hu Jones Three, Finn Rasel was four and he had a handful. Bundi Aki was the oldest; He was seven years old.
So, 1997 is a foreign world for him. Since then, it has been 1–1 against Australia after two tests, 2–0 for All Blax, 2–0 for Springbox, 1–1 against Walbies, 1–1 against New Zealand and 1–1 against South Africa.
In MCG, if Lions live up to our billing to scare the hot favorite, we are going to the area. We are not close to three decades.
There is a huge warning in all this. If we are examining the scale of achievement, if the lions were to pull it then you have to measure the quality of the opponent.
As long as the walbs can shake themselves in an omnipotent way, they are in danger of going down, as lions have faced one of the worst crew in the modern era – or much more in another era.
