Garry Ringrose will miss the third British & Irish Lions Test against Australia on Saturday because of concussion, but the coaching staff have vowed to pick \u201cthe best team available\u201d as they seek a first unbeaten series since 1974.<\/p>\n
Ringrose reported concussion symptoms<\/a> just before Andy Farrell, the head coach, was due to name his side for the second Test and that triggered a 12\u2011day stand-down period for the Ireland centre, ruling him out of the final game in Sydney. In better news for Farrell, Joe McCarthy, Mack Hansen and Sione Tuipulotu all took a full part in training on Tuesday and are in contention.<\/p>\n Farrell sought to blow off any lingering cobwebs from the second-Test celebrations with a Squid Game challenge at the start of training. It was a version of \u201cgreen light, red light\u201d, a survival game based on stealth and the Ireland tighthead prop Thomas Clarkson was the first to be eliminated, but the Lions were soon down to business.<\/p>\n The head coach and his staff will meet on Wednesday night to finalise selection, but Farrell is not expected to make wholesale changes given the Lions\u2019 pursuit of history. Maro Itoje is likely to captain the side again even though he has surpassed the mandated 30-game limit dictated by the Rugby Football Union.<\/p>\n \u201cFor this time of tour it\u2019s amazing how many people we\u2019ve got available,\u201d the assistant coach Andrew Goodman said. \u201cUnfortunately Garry has been ruled out of this Test match, but we have Mack, Joe, Sione all out there running today.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a Squid Game challenge, green light, red light, the whole field was covered in different things they could hide behind, and they had people in the top tier keeping an eye. It was a good craic.<\/p>\n Tadhg Furlong works hard in the gym. Photograph: David Davies\/PA<\/p>\n \u201c[The motivation to win 3-0] is huge. It\u2019s everything for us as a group to get excited about. It was 1974 the last time a Lions team went through the Test series unbeaten, so there\u2019s huge motivation for the group.<\/p>\n \u201c[It will be] the best team available to win the series. That might look like some changes, that might look like consistency. We will see how the boys go through their recovery process over the next couple of days and whatever 23\u2019s picked will go out there and do the best for the team.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n The latest rugby union news and analysis, plus all the week’s action reviewed<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to reward form when guys have been playing well and are match-hardened in those Test matches. It is a balance and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll have some good discussions as we always have.\u201d<\/p>\n Ringrose has been widely praised for speaking up about his symptoms last week. \u201cHe\u2019s disappointed as you can imagine,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cGarry was playing some amazing rugby through this tour and someone who it\u2019s been a dream of his for so long to represent the Lions and he\u2019s managed to do that. But he wanted to be a Test-match Lion so it\u2019s been devastating for him.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s disappointed for himself, but he\u2019s getting around everyone and making sure he helps prepare everyone as much as he can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garry Ringrose will miss the third British & Irish Lions Test against Australia on Saturday because of concussion,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-301797","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\/114937803797596797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301797","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=301797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}