{"id":266464,"date":"2025-07-16T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266464\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:21:09","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-tom-curry-and-sione-tuipulotu-set-to-start-first-test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266464\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: Tom Curry and Sione Tuipulotu set to start first Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England flanker Tom Curry is set to start in the back row for the British and Irish Lions in the first Test against Australia, with Wales&#8217; Jac Morgan missing out on selection.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan, Wales&#8217; only representative in the 44-man squad, had been pushing hard for a place on the open-side flank after some outstanding performances on tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Lions boss Andy Farrell is set to opt for Curry&#8217;s pedigree and experience when the team is confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, it is understood Sione Tuipulotu will start at inside centre as part of an all-Scottish midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Glasgow centre is expected to line up in-between fly-half Finn Russell and club-mate Huw Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If confirmed, it will be the first time since 1993 one country has provided the 10\/12\/13 axis in a Lions Test, when Englishmen Rob Andrew, Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott all played in the series opener against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Ireland&#8217;s Tadhg Beirne and England&#8217;s Ollie Chessum are competing to join Curry and the Irishman Jack Conan in the back row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England flanker Tom Curry is set to start in the back row for the British and Irish Lions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266464","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\/114862652344086216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266464","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=266464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}