{"id":285435,"date":"2025-07-23T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285435\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:45:11","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-harry-potter-rejects-sir-clive-woodward-losing-mentality-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285435\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: Harry Potter rejects Sir Clive Woodward ‘losing mentality’ claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Potter was born in London and grew up in Bristol before moving to Melbourne aged 10.<\/p>\n

He moved to England in 2020 to play for Leicester Tigers, scoring 20 tries in 67 appearances and winning the 2022 Premiership title, and returning to Australia with the Western Force.<\/p>\n

As a 15-year-old, he was in the crowd as Australia secured a 16-15 second Test win<\/a> over the Lions at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne in 2013.<\/p>\n

Potter conceded that Australia failed to show the same fight on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“It has been tough looking back at that game,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We certainly learned a fair bit. It didn’t feel like we put our best foot forward, particularly in the first 50 to 60 minutes. There are a lot of lessons to take out of that one.<\/p>\n

“They are an incredibly strong team, but we know we have to come out better and start the game stronger.<\/p>\n

“There were some positive signs towards the end of the game. We feel like, if we can string enough things together, we can go a lot better than we did.”<\/p>\n

Just as in 2013, Australia must win the second Test to keep the series alive.<\/p>\n

Head coach Joe Schmidt hopes to have heavyweight forward pair Rob Valetini and Will Skelton fit for selection after they missed out in Brisbane through injury.<\/p>\n

“Emotionally it is very simple this week,” said Potter.<\/p>\n

“We all know the task at hand so I don’t think anyone has any questions about what is at stake.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Potter was born in London and grew up in Bristol before moving to Melbourne aged 10. He moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285435","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285435","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=285435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}