{"id":243850,"date":"2025-07-06T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243850\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:27:12","slug":"les-kiss-names-full-aunz-squad-to-take-on-bi-lions-in-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243850\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Kiss names full AUNZ squad to take on B&I Lions in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AUNZ invitational XV head coach Les Kiss has named his full 30-man squad to take on the British and Irish Lions<\/a> this weekend in Adelaide, the last game for the Lions before the first Test.<\/p>\n

Kiss will be joined by former All Blacks<\/a> head coach Ian Foster, as well as Force<\/a> head coach Simon Cron and Zane Hilton from the Reds.<\/p>\n

The squad features a number of experienced Wallabies and All Blacks who will feature in the historic match at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kiss\u2019s squad for the one of fixture includes a number of players involved in recent games against the Lions on their 2025 Australia<\/a> tour, with a heavy contingent from the Reds<\/a> playing group who pushed the Lions in the first half, but fell away in the late stages in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

British & Irish Lions<\/p>\n

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AUNZ XV <\/p>\n

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British & Irish Lions <\/p>\n

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Maori All Blacks captain and Blues<\/a> hooker Kurt Eklund<\/a> is named in the squad, after playing in back-to-back weeks against Japan<\/a> XV and Scotland<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n

Waratahs first-five Tane Edmed<\/a> will be one of the playmakers, alongside 21-year-old Harry McLaughlin-Phillips.<\/p>\n

Kiss will find it difficult to select a backline with the amount of depth in the squad, with the likes of Mac Grealy<\/a>, Darby Lancaster<\/a>, Shaun Stevenson<\/a>, Marika Koroibete<\/a>, Jock Campbell<\/a> and AJ Lam<\/a> all in the mix.<\/p>\n

Only two halfbacks are named, with two-Test All Black No.9 Folau Fakatava<\/a> involved alongside Reds haflback Kalani Thomas.<\/p>\n

AUNZ INVITATIONAL XV SQUAD (Country of representation, current side)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aidan Ross (Australia\/New Zealand, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

AJ Lam (New Zealand, Blues)<\/p>\n

Angus Blyth (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Brandon Paenga-Amosa (Australia, Western Force)<\/p>\n

Daniel Botha (Australia, NSW Waratahs)<\/p>\n

Darby Lancaster (Australia, NSW Waratahs)<\/p>\n

David Havili (New Zealand, Crusaders)<\/p>\n

Folau Fakatava\u00a0<\/strong>(New Zealand, Highlanders)<\/p>\n

George Dyer (New Zealand, Chiefs)<\/p>\n

Harry McLaughlin-Phillips (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Hoskins Sotutu (New Zealand, Blues)<\/p>\n

Jeffery Toomaga-Allen (New Zealand\/Samoa, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Jock Campbell (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Joe Brial (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Joey Walton (Australia, NSW Waratahs)<\/p>\n

Joshua Fusitu\u2019a (New Zealand, Blues)<\/p>\n

Kalani Thomas (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Kurt Eklund (New Zealand, Blues)<\/p>\n

Lachlan Anderson (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Lukhan Salakaia-Loto (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Mac Grealy (Australia, Western Force)<\/p>\n

Marika Koroibete (Australia, Panasonic Wild Knights)<\/p>\n

Matt Philip (Australia, NSW Waratahs)<\/p>\n

Ngani Laumape (New Zealand, Moana Pasifika)<\/p>\n

Pete Samu (Australia, NSW Waratahs)<\/p>\n

Richie Asiata (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Seru Uru (Australia, Queensland Reds)<\/p>\n

Shannon Frizell (New Zealand, Toshiba Brave Lupus)<\/p>\n

Shaun Stevenson (New Zealand, Kubota Spears)<\/p>\n

Tane Edmed (Australia, NSW Waratahs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUNZ invitational XV head coach Les Kiss has named his full 30-man squad to take on the British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-243850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114808884193120997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}