A lot has been made from the foreign-born members of this summer season’s British and Irish Lions squad, however the Australian announcers at their first tour sport Down Below discovered the humorous facet.
The announcer on the Optus Stadium in Perth learn out the groups forward of the sport, though they singled out 4 members of the Lions facet.
“Our former Aussie at No. 14, Mack Hansen,” the bottom tanoy sounded. “One other Aussie at No. 12, Sione Tuipulotu.
“At No.11, it is the Kiwi now Irishman, James Lowe … At prop, the previous SA schoolboy now Scotsman, Pierre Schoeman.”
The Lions might have had the final chortle, incomes an especially one-sided 54-7 victory as they kick-started their tour.
The origins of a few of this 12 months’s Lions squad was a trigger for debate at occasions within the build-up to the sport, with Schoeman saying the squad’s overseas-born gamers have each proper to be aside of the set-up.
Eight gamers in Andy Farrell’s squad, together with Schoeman, have been born outdoors England, Eire, Scotland and Wales. They’ve certified both by household or long-term residency.
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