Löwen preparing for Wallabies against MCG to write their own story

All British and Irish Lion and Australia players who have to inspire in the last moments before starting in the second test on Saturday only have to look up the wall in front of them. While the changing rooms of one of the great athletes in the world are included in iconography on both sides if you have the cricket in Melbourne to your temporary home, it will still be the carved wooden awards that have listed the immortal services of the many cricket -sized ones who have recorded these cathedral and recorded their own.

From Grimmett and O’Reilly to the Chappell brothers to Warne and McGrath, the sizes have made an indelible traces on this holy temple of Australian sport. For the Wallabies, you will hope to make your own imprint a must with the victory. It is 1-0 for the home team to avoid being the first of the three southern hemisphere that are conquered by the Touring Lions into successive series.

Perhaps Joe Schmidt and his side can take some of a certain DG Bradman who reminds of statues inside and from an event location, where he only achieved 128.53 on average. Adelaide’s Obsen are those who remember the famous bodyline ashes from 1932-33, but it was in Melbourne where Australia had defeated the series after being beaten and beaten by England in Sydney. A returning Don, who had missed the opening game due to a contractual dispute, was in the second inning after a golden duck in the first with typical brilliance and warmer.

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The Wallabies hope that the Wallabies were beaten and injured by the lions in the opening encounter of this series. One would have foreseen a dragging start of a team in just the second excursion of the year, but only a few predict the passivity with which Australia played. “We don’t want to be nice and we don’t want to be submissive,” emphasized head coach Schmidt on Thursday. “I just think that they played really well on the side [last week]They got in among us, sometimes right next to us, which made it very difficult to play them.

“We are confident that we will bring this to you this week and that you can keep a little more on the background.”

Of course, it helps to have a complete addition to bruisers for what is a real melbourne close -up in a wet night. Totally full fitness likes Rob Valetini and still wants to dodge Skelton, but the couple certainly gives a more fearful look a wallabies team that has no weapons of destruction a week ago. The artillery, which provides for each, is clear, with Valetiis tireless wearing and skeltons unique strengths like important parts of the page that Schmidt builds. “He is an unusually tall person,” said Lions Lock Ollie Chessum about his opposite number Skelton. “I think he will bring the physical edge that we expect from the Wallabies this weekend.”

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The importance of playing in the MCG is not lost among the Lions, which intend to accept the occasion and to absorb the atmosphere. A series win is within reach for a team that believes that even in brilliant 42 minutes, in which you have confiscated a game with a match winner, you were not reached to the heights that you are capable of in the first test. During this tour, the conversation was to write her own story. The MCG would be an apt place to do it.

“You will fall back on every emotional aspect of this game you can,” said Chessum. “You are 1-0 in the series, but you are in the MCG, in front of your fans, on your home floor with the series on the line. We know that you will throw the sink on us.

“From the beginning we said that we want to define a marker and be the best lion team.

The disturbance caused by Garry Ringrose’s courageous and correct withdrawal was limited by a squad that is closer than on earlier tours. At this point it is on a trip where the last game of the week and the selection of orders make it clear that a group can break or surveys – but everyone in Lions Camp is clear that the bonds of the class of 2025 are strong. Perhaps this could best be seen in Ellis Genge and Finn Russell, who left their seats in the stands to comfort the temporary tourists Darcy Graham after a violation of the victory against First Nations & Pasifika XV. In their different ways, both England Prop and Scotland have been central managers in the past few weeks.

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Owen Farrell was increasingly, whose presence on match day 23 in Melbourne is not surprised for most in rugby. The assumption was always that the 33-year-old would have some test participations as soon as he accepted the call from his father, and a standard driver will hope that there will be no decline as soon as he and the rest of the replacement are used.

Melbourne was full of Lions supporters this week, maybe even more red-crazy than a week ago with Brisbane. Many traveling fans drove the tests two and three. You won’t make up a lot, you would assume if the game of the next week becomes a dead rubber. However, such a conversation is premature.

“If you wear this jersey and represent the lions that you know that it is associated with great honor and a sense of responsibility, and we know that we don’t play a pub team,” emphasized Captain Maro Itoje. “The Wallabies are a real team, I played them in autumn last year and we lost them if we were to win. They are a team that can punish them if they don’t really approach the game.”