Recent content by Giulia

My memory of the view from the 600s + thousands more wealthy people in town than normal accommodation prices... think I'll be watching the semi-finals and finals from home over deciding November 2027 is the moment for my fourth or fifth in a lifetime trip to Sydney.

Gone off it a bit since looking up South Africa climate and realising I'd be wearing a jacket every day. And getting drunk with rugby fans might have a Been Here Done This feeling by the 3rd weekend. Going to the first 1 or 2 games and heading north up the continent might work.

Socceroos 2005+ becoming a team who always qualify for the world cup likely diminished the special international big deal feel only rugby union had (of the football codes) in Australia before that.

Heaps of people won't support two rugby union teams when the Wallabies play 15 games a year. It'd be a similar story in the NRL if Origin went on that long and AFL if there were something above clubs.

Lions supporters will be blind drunk for their last weekend in Australia. Sydney Wallabies supporters who didn't buy a ticket before the end of game 2 will watch on TV or not at all.

Oh now there's a Wallabies jersey

Stepped on my train from suburb to Jolimont and don't see anyone wearing rugby stuff. Though many casual "going because it's a big event" Melbourne people won't have bought merchandise.

Cold, grey and windy maybe not what British & Lions fans pictured when they planned their big Australian trip

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A journey that has you going to the airport will feel longer than "45 minutes from your front door"

We'll see. From what I can tell the reason Melbourne Storm is full of men who grew up in QLD & NSW is because Storm and the ALRC don't spend any money developing rugby league as a participant sport in VIC.

As a visitor staying in the CBD it stood out how many convenience stores were shut.

I went up to Brisbane. Definitely an event feel with so many people from not Brisbane (me) going out of their way to be there visiting a stadium they've never been to (also me). By the time I flew home to Melbourne last night even though I'm Australian I was thinking "You've never been to Africa...

UK & Ireland TV could have something to do with it. 11am probably sounds less going-out-of-your-way-to-watch-it than anything earlier.

Seen a few kids wearing it which is a change from the 40s-60s men. Expect Lions to win this and the series.