• In 1977 the British Lions rugby union team toured New Zealand. The Lions played 26 matches, including four internationals against the All Blacks. They...
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  • British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for the national teams of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Lions...
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  • In 1983 the British and Irish Lions toured New Zealand for the first time since 1977. The Lions went down to a 4–0 whitewash for only the second time in...
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  • The 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia is an international rugby union tour scheduled to take place in Australia between June and August 2025...
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  • 1980 the British Lions rugby union team toured South Africa (including one game in Windhoek, South West Africa, the future Namibia). The tour was not a...
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  • the British & Irish Lions toured South Africa, with matches in South West Africa and Rhodesia. Under the leadership of Willie John McBride, the Lions went...
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  • The 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia was a rugby union tour during June and July 2013. The British & Irish Lions played ten matches - a three-test...
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  • 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia was a tour by the Great Britain national rugby league team, nicknamed the 'Lions', of Papua New Guinea, Australia...
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  • it was British Columbia's defeat of the 1966 British Lions see: 1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand 1966 British Lions tour to Australia...
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  • British Lions toured Australia for the first time since 1971. Unlike previous tours to Australia, the Lions did not play any matches in New Zealand,...
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  • In rugby union, New Zealand first played against the British & Irish Lions in 1904, beating them 9–3 at Athletic Park, Wellington. Since then, there has...
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  • scheduled to tour New Zealand, where they will play two tests against the New Zealand national team, a part of the 2024 Summer Internationals. On the way to New...
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  • the Great Britain team would come together in future only for occasional tours, similar to the British and Irish Lions in rugby union. The Lions most recently...
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    classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950. As well as South Africa, the tour included a game in...
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    yields produce from land and sea. Similar to the cuisine of Australia, the cuisine of New Zealand is a diverse British-based cuisine, with Mediterranean and...
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    against the All Blacks in 1978. Beaumont took part in the 1977 British Lions tour to New Zealand after being called up as a replacement when Nigel Horton...
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    The 1981 South African rugby tour (known in New Zealand as the 1981 Springbok Tour, and in South Africa as the Rebel Tour) polarised opinions and inspired...
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    caps. He went on a third tour and played in a non-cap match against Fiji at the end of the 1977 British Lions tour to New Zealand. A major criticism of Brown...
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  • manager). The 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand saw the Kiwis' first ever test on home soil, with the British side proving too strong...
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    that the 1977 Lions nearly drew the series, and that subsequent Lions tours to New Zealand fared much worse. In 1972 Dawes moved from teaching to a management...
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  • squad to play the British and Irish Lions on 3 June 2017, during the 2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand: Head Coach – Clayton McMillan Note:...
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  • New Zealand in 1930. Although the Lions won the first test, the home side regrouped and went on to win the series 3–1. New Zealand toured the British Isles...
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  • Peter Squires (sportsman) (category British & Irish Lions rugby union players from England)
    tries, as well as playing for the British and Irish Lions on the 1977 British Lions tour to New Zealand. He continued to play for Ripon into his early forties...
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  • In 1976 the All Blacks toured South Africa, with the blessing of the then-newly elected New Zealand Prime Minister, Rob Muldoon. Twenty-five African nations...
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  • retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950. The tour party was led by Ireland's Sam...
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  • In 1968 the British Lions toured South Africa. The tour was not successful in terms of international results, the Lions losing the Test series against...
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  • The 2005 New Zealand Rugby Union tour of Britain and Ireland was a Grand Slam Rugby Union tour played by the New Zealand National Rugby Union team, also...
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    The 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain was made by a group of New Zealand rugby footballers who played matches in Australia...
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  • rugby union tour of New Zealand and the 1977 British Lions tour to New Zealand Burrell joined the SRU committee and served from 1968 to 86. He was President...
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  • appeared as a replacement during a Lions match, but not those who have only been named as part of a Lions touring squad or included as part of a match...
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