on British and Irish Lions 2021 Tour Fixtures, Gallagher Premiership 2019/20: Round 5 Talking Points, Heineken Champions Cup 2019/20: Round 3 Predictions. 31 July – Second Test v Springboks (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) Mbombela, formerly Nelspruit. British and Irish Lions 2021 Tour Fixtures The fixtures for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa were confirmed yesterday, with two tests at … Anyway, this an un-rugby related subject. British and Irish Lions’ tour schedule, dates and fixtures in South Africa ... Thursday 06 May 2021 16:14. What next? Warren Gatland will name his squad for the tour just … British and Irish Lions 2021 South Africa tour fixtures - Flipboard Jeremy Guscott's first Test try came in Lions red rather than England white. Firstly, I’d like to say that I love the Lions and, for me at least, the Lions in SA is THE tour. Your email address will not be published. Bit insular innit TTD & would you have stated that if you’d been around in ’71 & ’74 !? 14/07/2021. Players will get about a game and a half to force their way in to the team and after that will be spectators for the Tests. Kick-off time: 7pm; Venue: Cape Town, Cape Town Stadium British and Irish Lions The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Perhaps if there are a swadge of English players picked for the tour, there will be more local interest generated too? Not me. British and Irish Lions Tour of South Africa 2021 - full schedule 3 July - DHL Stormers (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) 7 July - South Africa Invitational (Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth) South Africa 'A' v British & Irish Lions. The Lions will face take on five warm-up fixtures in South Africa in July before three eagerly anticipated Tests against the world champions themselves, with matches in Johannesburg either side of a fixture in Cape Town. ( None have ever played the game) On the basis of 51% will have to be “AFRICAN”, 25% “COLOURED” (of mixed race) 15% may be white the balance take your pick. The British & Irish Lions are scheduled to play a three-match test series against South Africa. Just thought I’d throw it into the mix as a human interest story. 10 July – Cell C Sharks (Jonsson Kings Park, Durban) It makes me really angry to see one of the great traditions of the game treated with such contempt by those charged with organising it and promoting the game as widely as possible. 24 July – First Test v Springboks (Soccer City, Johannesburg) Enjoyment! The 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa is an international rugby union tour that is scheduled to take place in South Africa in 2021. Gd to see TRB back. Wednesday 14th July 2021. British and Irish Lions 2021: Premiership players to be released for Japan game ... when fixtures are scheduled which impact the domestic season." When not writing articles about the latest issues surrounding the game, Ben spends his time worrying about the fortunes of his beloved Saracens. 7 August – Third Test v Springboks (Ellis Park, Johannesburg), Your email address will not be published. These are the dates and venues confirmed for the 2021 fixtures so far: Saturday 3rd July - DHL Stormers - Cape Town, Cape Town Stadium Completely bloody ludicrous schedule. After all, the Saffas must need the tour more than, or at least as much as, The Lions do? Mbombela Stadium. Required fields are marked *. They are actually due to leave the day before the Premieship Final, which the English clubs have refused to move so some players will fly out later,´get off the plane and be straight into competitive games, of which there are no easy ones in SA. There is a bill being presented in the SA parliament that states that “ALL SPORT’S”, Amateur & Professional, including “ALL GYMS” are to be controlled directly by the government. 14 July – South Africa ‘A’ Team (Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit) Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The new jersey celebrates the journey a player must undergo to reach the very top of the game, as well as those who have helped them get there. Might have been better for The Lions to have had the tests sandwiched more evenly amongst domestic matches though. Warren Gatland is set to name his 36-man squad for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa today, ahead of the team’s summer series against the Springboks. Email Ben - ben@lions-tour.com. You can take your Lions team and shove it. The KO times will added/updated when announced. Don’t worry, If our “ESTEEMED GOVERNMENT’ has their way, all of the teams to play the Lions will be selected by a group of “KNOWLEDGEABLE” politicians. As much as I enjoy most of your posts on here you’re never going to win me over with the Lions. Delete ‘arthritis’. Soccer City in Soweto will host the opening test match of the tour and has a capacity of just under 90,000. The British and Irish Lions have confirmed their 2021 schedule for their tour to last year’s World Cup winners South Africa. Schedule For 2021 British & Irish Lions Tour To South Africa Confirmed. Pretoria It will come at the end of a gruesomely long season when players will be completely knackered, and despite absolutely scathing management reports about player welfare on the previous two tours, the powers that be are determined to squeeze every last penny out of the game with a complete disregard for the physical and mental wellbeing of the players. The Bulls game the week before the first test is at only 1300 metres whereas Johannesburg is at over 1700. I do concede your point on the AI’s being money spinners however my understanding is the Lions means slightly more to the SH or so I was lead to believe by press coverage during the last Lions tour. Also without a midweek game from the Bulls game onwards what will be done with the mid-week team for the last three and a half weeks – on the assumption that the Test team will start that game against the Bulls?? 17/07/2021. The Lions take on the Springboks in South Africa 2021. These are the dates and venues confirmed for the 2021 fixtures so far, including a one-off warm-up game on home soil: Saturday June 26 - British and Irish Lions vs Japan. Kind of Irrelevant because I wasn’t. Koi-San, Indian, Chinese whatever. The vast majority of supporters will be there for the test series and asking them to travel J’Borg – C Town – J’Borg with no midweek game is financially very stressful. Sky Sports will exclusively show the British & Irish Lions' three-Test series against the Springboks in 2021, as well as their five warm-up matches against the … Register/Signup and sync British Lions events and fixtures of the 2021 South Africa British & Irish Lions tour, to the calendar app on your phone, tablet, PC or MAC. The pt was the Lions were & are an important part of rugby history, tradition, contribution & values for the game’s greater good. Not so keen to tour due costs v value, but will certainly watch series on TV. Ben also runs our travel section and is a font of all knowledge about the tours having travelled as a tourist on all three tours. Afterwards, felt as though I’d had a sudden attack of arthritis! BTW as The Lions tour 4 yrly, the £ stream must still work in yr NH favour. As an England fan all the time we get abuse from the other nations and told how were hated then every 4 years everyone else wants to pretend it isn’t the case. Cell C Sharks Durban. Total disregard for player’s health. Lions tour 2021 fixtures: Full schedule for British and Irish rugby showpiece in South Africa The Lions will play five warm-up matches before three Tests against the world champion Springboks The tour is the year after next Leon, so I believe that Sarries points deduction should be over and normal business of them competing for honors will be resumed… Unless of course they are relegated. I honestly don’t get it and especially in these times of player welfare I don’t get why it’s given such prominence. In fairness to the scheduling its only the players form the top 2/4 teams in the Prem that will be unavailable to travel on day 1 so all the Sarries contingent will be available In reality we are talking about Exeter/Northampton and probably Sale/Gloucester. So being a bit blunt the tradition and history of it means nothing to me at all. Jonsson Kings Park. British & Irish Lions 2021 Fixtures Saturday 26 June: British & Irish Lions v Japan – BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh Saturday 3 July: British & Irish Lions v DHL Stormers – Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town Cape Town. Mbombela Stadium. I didn’t watch a minute of the last 2 tours. The only nailed on tourists from that lot are the likes of Curry/Slade/Hogg/Nowell with a few other potential tourists in LCD/Williams/Francis/Wilson/Ashton/Lawes/Biggar/Hutch/Ludlam/Thorley/Simpson. Kick-off time: TBC; Venue: Murrayfield, Edinburgh; TV channel: Sky Sports ; Saturday July 3 - DHL Stormers vs British and Irish Lions. 2021 British And Irish Lions Jersey Revealed Canterbury has unveiled the latest British & Irish Lions Pro jersey ahead of the Tour of South Africa in 2021. That’s well before I was born. Saturday June 26 - British and Irish Lions vs Japan Kick-off time: TBC Venue: Murrayfield, Edinburgh … South Africa 'Invitational' Port Elizabeth. Encouraging TTD. Lions tour 2021 fixtures: Full schedule for British & Irish rugby showpiece in South Africa Louis Doré 3 mins ago More than 101 million Americans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 I’d rather they scrapped the Lions, it’s just become an extension of Wales Rugby and an income stream for the southern hemisphere. I would not be at all surprised if a number of players decide not to go. Cell C Sharks v British & Irish Lions. Jonsson Kings Park. The Lions were & are global ambassadors for rugby, perhaps ahead of their time previously. VIEW COMMENTS. I don’t know if you’re serious about seeing old games on TV but no I haven’t. 17 July – Vodacom Bulls (Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria) It was also confirmed that the Lions will face a shortened tour with just five warm up matches and three test matches making a total of just eight fixtures instead of the ten games they played during the tour of New Zealand in 2017. Esp with their being stacked with Saracens & other English players! Cape Town Stadium. The website of the British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2021, playing three tests against the Rugby World Cup winning Springboks The fixtures for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa were confirmed yesterday, with two tests at altitude in Johannesburg and the other in Cape Town. The coaches are given no chance to work with the squad in any meaningful fashion beyond absolute basics and spectators are expected to travel Johannesberg to Cape Town and back for the three tests, while players will get no proper chance to aclimatise to altitude before the first test, thus making a comfortable home victory very likely. irishmirror.ie - The first game of the British and Irish Lions’ 2021 South Africa tour is under two months away. British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa 2021. British & Irish Lions 2021 Fixtures Announced, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). I would humbly suggest that the English & Irish Lions due to interference by our ESTEEMED GOVERNMENT refuse to tour. British & Irish Lions squad in full: 37-man party confirmed plus tour schedule, fixtures, dates and venues. Yes & yes. I’ve never even heard of any being broadcast tbh. Durban. Wednesday 7th July 2021. Well balls to that. The second test will be held in Cape Town at the 55,000 seater Cape Town Stadium before returning to Johannesburg for the final test at Ellis Park. DHL Stormers. The British & Irish Lions have announced the fixture for the tour to South Africa in 2021, with the notable venue in Johannesburg likely to see a record crowd for a British Lions fixture. ... 06 May 2021. No doubt it will only be on subscription tv as well. The British & Irish Lions Tour Schedule 2021, 3 July – DHL Stormers (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) All the other games are at much closer to sea level. Don’t know why Gatland didn’t put his foot down in respect of the schedule. Might end up enjoying them too? You must have seen on TV at some pt the scintillating rugby played in ’71/74, esp when compared with some of the programmed, robotic & defensive orientated dross on offer these days. 7 July – South Africa Invitational (Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth) Vodacom Bulls. The British & Irish Lions Test match against Japan at BT Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday 26 June 2021 for the Vodafone Lions 1888 Cup will continue as scheduled. British and Irish Lions 2021 tour fixtures, dates and TV channel with world champions South Africa lying in wait 04/29/2021 THE British and Irish Lions will take to the skies and tour South Africa THIS summer for an eight-match tour. Didn’t work, but it was either that, or update my old mobile whose operating system which I wondered whether it had been superceded by newer technology. South Africa 'A' Mbombela, formerly Nelspruit. You could have the best of both worlds though. The Lions will face Super Rugby sides The Stormers, The Sharks and The Bulls as well as fixtures against an invitational side and South Africa A, before taking on the World Champions in the three test series. The British & Irish Lions have announced the fixture for the tour to South Africa in 2021, with the notable venue in Johannesburg likely to see a record crowd for a British Lions fixture. 3 July – DHL Stormers (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) 7 July – South Africa Invitational (Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth) 10 July – Cell C Sharks (Jonsson Kings Park, Durban) 14 July – South Africa ‘A’ Team (Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit) 17 July – Vodacom Bulls (Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria), 24 July – First Test v Springboks (Soccer City, Johannesburg) 31 July – Second Test v Springboks (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) 7 August – Third Test v Springboks (Ellis Park, Johannesburg). Scotland Head Coach Gregor Townsend has been named as the Attack Coach for the British & Irish Lions Tour... Post was not sent - check your email addresses! On old fashioned Lions Tours they got an opportunity to go up country, get to know each other, play midweek games and force their way into the Test Team. Enjoy what you enjoy & you could also check out The Lions nxt up? Saturday 17th July 2021. Lions fixtures 2021: Full tour schedule for British & Irish rugby showpiece in South Africa Louis Doré 13 mins ago Video shows stranger attacking Asian woman with hammer in NYC Unlike previous series, where the Lions played seven additional games against local teams, in 2021 there will only be five additional games, making a total of eight. However, looking at the schedule it shows total disregard to the concept and the spectators. Soccer City in Soweto will host the opening test match of the tour and has a capacity of just under 90,000. Well, it was a supposition TTD. Go on TTD, you know that, deep down, you want to! Gregor Townsend Named British & Irish Lions Coach, Maori All Blacks 10 British & Irish Lions 32. Regarding the Lions’ tours being a £ stream for the SH, the converse can be said of the AI’s for the NH. Not me either as much as a love my Rugby I cannot afford nor justify the money it costs to go on such a jolly plus are The Lions not good enough to be considered a challenge yet an invite side is? ... has called for common sense to prevail as Premiership Rugby threaten not to release all of its players until after the British and Irish Lions' warm-up fixture against Japan on June 26th. Three years on from their famous series tie against New Zealand, the British & Irish Lions have confirmed their schedule for the 2021 tour to face 2019 World Cup winners South Africa.. Potential British and Irish Lions Bolters 2021 A left-field pick. You could presume thatvoncexagain this tour has been deliberately designed by the hosts to createxmaximum stress and minimum acclimatisation for the visitors. Saturday 10th July 2021. The British & Irish Lions could make history on an eight-game tour of South Africa in 2021, with Warren Gatland’s side set to play in front of the largest-ever crowd for a Lions Test since the game turned professional, after the itinerary was announced on Wednesday. However, a decision on crowd size will be made nearer the time of the event and in line with the latest Government guidance. Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. As for looking outward I’d much rather see National Teams tour to places like Tonga, Fiji, USA, Japan than have the Lions play the big 3. W. I did enjoy the brief tournament that was held in the states with the Saxons involved. He can tell you everything you need to know about touring with the British & Irish Lions from how to get there and where to stay, to where you can hang around to spot the players and where you can get the best steaks in town...! Pointless friendlies that detract from the National Sides advancement. Vodacom Bulls v … The Lions will play eight games in total — … A 23-year-old Martin Johnson made his British and Irish Lions debut after only one England cap. Lions Tour 2021 fixtures in South Africa: When does it start, match dates, times and TV schedule The British & Irish Lions will embark on an eight-match tour to … Relieved that this was not the case though. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Ben is responsible for overseeing all output from the L-T.com team and often can't help himself from adding his own take on the issues of the day and has to pen his own article to stick his two-penneth in. Each to his own, but still think you may be arthritislimiting yrself. Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa in 2021 and be the first to be informed of our excellent packages. A paste error relating to a recent fall I had on to my knees. Saturday 3rd July 2021. Not once. My introduction to rugby was around 2001, never played it at school at all. 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