{"id":296214,"date":"2025-07-27T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296214\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:43:13","slug":"finn-russell-sends-ominous-warning-to-wallabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296214\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Russell sends ominous warning to Wallabies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finn Russell insists the British and Irish Lions<\/a> have arrived in Sydney for the final week of their Australia<\/a> tour intent on completing a series whitewash over the Wallabies.<\/p>\n

The rivals delivered an all-time classic in the second Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, but it was Andy Farrell\u2019s men who held their nerve to emerge 29-26 winners.<\/p>\n

Now they are chasing the 100 per cent record Down Under that Farrell set as a pre-tour target \u2013 an achievement that has not been managed since the 1927 visit to Argentina.<\/p>\n

Russell, who started the celebrations wearing a chocolate garland given to some of the players by Sione Tuipulotu<\/a>, views the looming Sydney Olympic Park showdown as a must-win occasion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone here has been gunning for this for their whole career. To get to the Lions is one thing and then to get a series win is another,\u201d the Scotland<\/a> fly-half said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my third tour and I\u2019ve not won one so it\u2019s special to get this, bringing four nations together to be a family for five, six weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo to get the series is amazing, but the job\u2019s still not done yet. We need to go and try and finish it off. Even though we\u2019ve got the series, we want to finish on a high. Everyone wants to play in that game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russell has been a key figure in the Lions\u2019 first series triumph since 2013, forging an influential half-back partnership with Jamison Gibson Park that has been among the tourists\u2019 greatest strengths.<\/p>\n

On current form the best fly-half in the game, the 32-year-old is finally getting the accolades that his talent deserves after piloting Bath<\/a> to Gallagher Premiership, Challenge Cup and Premier Cup success in the recent club season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learned another style of rugby at Bath. It\u2019s a different style that\u2019s about getting control back because of the backs that we have to launch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s changed the way I look at the game a little bit. On Saturday, we had a couple of calls on their 10 metre line and I\u2019m looking at kick plays rather than launching straight away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m loving my rugby right now. Some of the boys might say it\u2019s the most confident I\u2019ve been and it\u2019s my best rugby, which might be true, it might not.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve not won much in my career so to have won the titles at Bath and now this, it\u2019s amazing, it\u2019s so special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finn Russell insists the British and Irish Lions have arrived in Sydney for the final week of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296214","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\/296214","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=296214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}