1989 British Lions tour to Australia
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In 1989 the British Lions
British and Irish Lions
The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...

 toured Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 for the first time since 1971. Despite losing the first test, the Lions won the remaining two to take the series 2-1. The side was captained by Finlay Calder
Finlay Calder
Finlay Calder is a Scottish former rugby union player.Born in Haddington, East Lothian and educated at Stewart's Melville College, Calder played at open side flanker and won 34 caps representing Scotland from 1986-91. He captained the British Lions tour to Australia in 1989...

.

Backs

  • Rob Andrew
    Rob Andrew
    Christopher Robert "Rob" Andrew MBE , nicknamed "Squeaky", is a former English rugby union footballer and currently Director of Operations at the RFU. He was formerly the Director of Rugby of Newcastle Falcons. As a player, Andrew was assured in his kicking and defensive skills off both feet...

     (Wasps
    London Wasps
    London Wasps is an English professional rugby union team. The men's first team, which forms London Wasps, was derived from Wasps Football Club who were formed in 1867 at the now defunct Eton and Middlesex Tavern in North London, at the turn of professionalism in 1999...

     and England)
  • Gary Armstrong
    Gary Armstrong
    Gary Armstrong is a former Scottish rugby union player who played scrum-half. He played for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons, The Borders and represented Scotland and the British Lions. His nickname is the Border Terrier...

     (Jedforest
    Jed-Forest RFC
    Jed-Forest Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team who are based at Riverside Park in Jedburgh.One of the world's oldest and most famous clubs, the team was founded in 1885 and currently play in Premiership Division Two and the Border League .-Honours:Kings of the Sevens - 2006Jed-Forest Sevens...

     and Scotland)
  • Craig Chalmers
    Craig Chalmers
    Craig Minto Chalmers is a former Scottish rugby union footballer for Melrose.-International career:The fly-half represented Scotland and the British Lions at international level...

     (Melrose
    Melrose RFC
    Melrose Rugby Football Club, located in the town of Melrose in the Scottish Borders, is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world.-History:The club was formed in 1877 and was elected to full membership of the Scottish Rugby Union in 1880...

     and Scotland)
  • Tony Clement
    Tony Clement (rugby player)
    Tony Clement is a former Welsh international rugby union player. He played as a fullback and was awarded 37 caps for Wales, scoring 3 tries and a drop goal. He played at the 1991 Rugby World Cup finals and at the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals...

     (Swansea
    Swansea RFC
    Swansea Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team which plays in the Welsh Premier Division. Its home ground is St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea. The team is sometimes known as The Whites because of the primary colour of the team strip...

     and Wales)
  • Paul Dean
    Paul Dean (rugby player)
    Paul Michael Dean is a former Irish international rugby union player. He toured Australia in 1989 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for St. Mary's College RFC.-Notes:...

     (St Mary's College
    St Mary's College RFC
    St. Mary's College Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Dublin, Ireland. The club was founded in 1900 by former pupils of St. Mary's College, Dublin and was originally known as Old St. Mary's. They club won the Leinster Senior Cup for the first time in 1958...

     and Ireland)
  • John Devereux (Bridgend and Wales)
  • Peter Dods
    Peter Dods
    Peter Dods is a former international rugby union player, who played fullback for Gala and Scotland.He made his international debut against Ireland in the opening match of the 1983 Five Nations. It was a largely disappointing championship for Scotland, but Dods scored 11 points in a 22-12 win over...

     (Gala
    Gala RFC
    Gala Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team based in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, founded in 1875, they play their home games at Netherdale....

     and Scotland)
  • Ieuan Evans
    Ieuan Evans
    Ieuan Evans is a former rugby union footballer who played on the wing for Wales. He is regarded as one of the best Welsh wingers of all time, despite playing through a disappointing era of Welsh rugby. A prolific try scorer at International level, Evans is listed 19th in the world on the all-time...

     (Llanelli
    Llanelli RFC
    Llanelli Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club founded in 1875 and its senior team is one of the leading club sides in Wales. The club began the 2008-09 season at their historic home ground of Stradey Park in Llanelli, but moved in November 2008 to the new Parc y Scarlets in adjacent...

     and Wales)
  • Jerry Guscott (Bath
    Bath Rugby
    Bath Rugby is an English professional rugby union club that is based in the city of Bath. They play in the Aviva Premiership league...

     and England) - replaced injured Will Carling
  • Mike Hall (Bridgend and Wales)
  • Gavin Hastings
    Gavin Hastings
    Andrew Gavin Hastings, OBE is a former Scotland rugby union player. He is frequently considered one of the best, if not the best, rugby player to come out of Scotland. His nickname is "Big Gav".Hastings was born in Edinburgh...

     (London Scottish
    London Scottish F.C.
    London Scottish Football Club is a rugby union club in England. It is a member of both the Rugby Football Union and the Scottish Rugby Union.-History:...

     and Scotland)
  • Scott Hastings
    Scott Hastings (rugby player)
    Scott Hastings is a Scottish Rugby Union player. He won 65 caps at centre for Scotland from 1986 to 1997. Scott is the younger brother of Scottish great Gavin Hastings. They both earned their first cap on 17 January 1986 against France. When he retired, he was Scotland's most-capped player ever...

     (Watsonians
    Watsonians RFC
    Watsonian Football Club is a rugby union club based in Edinburgh and part of the Scottish Rugby Union. The club is connected with George Watson's College as a club for former pupils, but now accepts players who did not attend the school...

     and Scotland)
  • Robert Jones
    Robert Jones (rugby player)
    Robert Nicholas Jones is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. He was capped 54 times for Wales during his career, at that time a record...

     (Swansea and Wales)
  • Brendan Mullin
    Brendan Mullin
    Brendan John Mullin is a former Ireland international rugby union footballer. He played as a centre.-Profile:Mullin was educated at one of the leading Irish schools rugby nurseries Blackrock College, Dublin...

     (London Irish
    London Irish
    London Irish RFC is an English rugby union club based in Sunbury, Surrey, where the senior squad train, the youth teams and senior academy play home games, and the club maintain their administrative offices. The senior squad play home games at the Madejski Stadium in Reading and compete in the top...

     and Ireland)
  • Chris Oti
    Chris Oti
    Chris Oti was a rugby winger of prodigious pace who represented England on thirteen occasions between 1988 to 1991...

     (Wasps and England)
  • Will Carling
    Will Carling
    William David Charles Carling, OBE is a former Rugby union player for Harlequins, and a former captain of England from 1988 to 1996, winning 72 caps.-Early life:...

     (Harlequins
    Harlequin F.C.
    The Harlequin Football Club is an English rugby union team who play in the top level of English rugby, the Aviva Premiership. Their ground in London is Twickenham Stoop...

     and England) - selected but withdrew due to injury
  • Rory Underwood
    Rory Underwood
    Rory Underwood MBE is a former English rugby union footballer who played wing for, most notably, Leicester Tigers and Bedford. He represented England and the British Lions and is a former Royal Air Force pilot....

     (Leicester
    Leicester Tigers
    Leicester Tigers is an English rugby union club that plays in the Aviva Premiership.Leicester are the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, a record 9 times English champions - 3 more than either Bath or Wasps, the last of which was in 2010...

     and RAF and England)

Forwards

  • Paul Ackford
    Paul Ackford
    Paul Ackford is a former English rugby union international who played lock forward. He was formerly an inspector in the Metropolitan Police, and is now a journalist.Ackford was born in Hanover, West Germany...

     (Harlequins
    Harlequin F.C.
    The Harlequin Football Club is an English rugby union team who play in the top level of English rugby, the Aviva Premiership. Their ground in London is Twickenham Stoop...

     and England)
  • Finlay Calder
    Finlay Calder
    Finlay Calder is a Scottish former rugby union player.Born in Haddington, East Lothian and educated at Stewart's Melville College, Calder played at open side flanker and won 34 caps representing Scotland from 1986-91. He captained the British Lions tour to Australia in 1989...

     (capt) (Stewart's Melville FP
    Stewart's Melville FP
    Stewart's Melville FP RFC is a Scottish rugby football club in Edinburgh. Members of the Scottish Rugby Union, they play in the Premiership Division Two. They play at Inverleith. Its ground, was the venue for Scotland’s home games between 1899 and 1925, during which time the first match against New...

     and Scotland)
  • Gareth Chilcott
    Gareth Chilcott
    Gareth James Chilcott is a former rugby union player, who played at prop for Bath and England.He made his England debut against Australia in 1984...

     (Bath and England)
  • Wade Dooley
    Wade Dooley
    Wade Dooley is a former England rugby union international who played lock forward. He played for his country 55 times and was known as the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 inches tall and a police officer with Lancashire Constabulary in Blackpool.Dooley was born in Warrington,...

     (Preston Grasshoppers and England)
  • Mike Griffiths
    Mike Griffiths
    Michael "Mike" Griffiths is a former Welsh rugby union player and British Lion, currently coaching Ystrad Rhondda RFC in the Welsh Rugby Union Division 2 East. He plied his trade with Pontypridd RFC between 1997 and 2003, making 73 appearances.Griffiths's father is George Griffiths, a builder, and...

     (Bridgend and Wales)
  • John Jeffrey
    John Jeffrey
    John Jeffrey is a Scottish former internationalistrugby union player. His nicknames are "The Great White Shark" and "JJ", the former because of his blond "thatch of hair"....

     (Kelso
    Kelso RFC
    Kelso Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team founded in 1876. They play their home games at Poynder Park, Kelso in the Scottish Borders.Team team currently play in Premiership Division Two and Border League .Kelso's Sevens Tournament takes place annually in August and the competition is part of...

     and Scotland)
  • Donal Lenihan
    Donal Lenihan
    Donal Gerard Lenihan is a retired Irish rugby union player with 52 international caps.- Biography:Donal was raised in a sporting background. His father, Gerald Lenihan, was an All-Ireland heavyweight boxing champion and Gaelic footballer of distinction, and played in the same team as Jack Lynch...

     (Cork Constitution
    Cork Constitution
    Cork Constitution is a club, based in Cork. It was founded by staff of the Cork Constitution. Since the paper did not publish on Sundays, the staff were looking for activities to pursue on Saturday afternoons. In the summer, cricket was played, while in the winter, rugby was the designated...

     and Ireland)
  • Brian Moore (Nottingham
    Nottingham R.F.C.
    Nottingham Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club based in Nottingham, England. The club's first team currently play in the Championship, the second tier of English Rugby....

     and England)
  • Bob Norster
    Bob Norster
    Robert Leonard "Bob" Norster is a former Welsh international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1983 British Lions tour to New Zealand and the 1989 British Lions tour to Australia. He played club rugby for Cardiff RFC....

     (Cardiff
    Cardiff RFC
    Cardiff Rugby Football Club is a rugby union football club based in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. The club was founded in 1876 and played their first few matches at Sophia Gardens, but soon relocated to Cardiff Arms Park where they have been based ever since...

     and Wales)
  • Dean Richards
    Dean Richards (rugby player)
    Dean Richards is a former England and British & Irish Lions rugby union player. He had a long playing career with Leicester Tigers, and played 48 times for England and six times for the British & Irish Lions.-Club career:...

     (Leicester and England)
  • Andy Robinson
    Andy Robinson
    Richard Andrew 'Andy' Robinson OBE is an English rugby union coach and retired player. He is currently the head coach of Scotland.Robinson played as an openside flanker for Bath, England and the British and Irish Lions...

     (Bath and England)
  • Steve Smith
    Steve Smith (Irish rugby player)
    Stephen James Smith is a former Ireland international rugby union player. He played as a hooker.Smith had 25 caps for Ireland, from 1988 to 1993, scoring 2 tries, 8 points in aggregate...

     (Ballymena
    Ballymena RFC
    Ballymena Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in the town of Ballymena, Northern Ireland. It is affiliated to the Ulster branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union. The club fields six adult teams and an under-20 team. In youth rugby there are under-18, under-16 and under-14 teams...

     and Ireland)
  • David Sole
    David Sole
    David Sole is a former Scottish rugby union footballer. He was educated at Blairmore prep school and Glenalmond College, a private school in Perthshire....

     (Edinburgh Academicals and Scotland)
  • Mike Teague
    Mike Teague
    Michael Clive Teague is a former England and British Lions rugby union footballer.-Early life:Teague was born and raised on a pig farm a few miles outside Gloucester...

     (Gloucester and England)
  • Derek White
    Derek White (rugby player)
    Derek Bolton White is a former Scottish International Rugby Union No.8 He was once described as "a big bulky back-row with pace and a mean streak"White had 42 caps for Scotland, from 1982 to 1992, scoreing 11 tries, 44 points on aggregate...

     (London Scottish and Scotland)
  • Dai Young
    Dai Young
    David "Dai" Young is a Welsh former rugby union and rugby league player, presently Director of Rugby at London Wasps.Born in Aberdare in 1967, Young lived in Penywaun for many years, and was regularly seen training with his father on the local sports field, now occupied by the Welsh-language...

     (Cardiff and Wales)

Results

Lions 44-0 Western Australia
Lions 23-8 Australia B
Lions 19-15 Queensland
Lions 30-6 Queensland B
Lions 23-21 New South Wales
Lions 39-19 New South Wales B
Lions 12-30 Australia
Australia national rugby union team
The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...

 (Sydney)
Lions 41-25 ACT
Lions 19-12 Australia
Australia national rugby union team
The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...

 (Brisbane)
Lions 19-18 Australia
Australia national rugby union team
The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...

(Sydney)
Lions 72-13 NSW Country
Lions 19-15 ANZAC XV

External links

  • http://www.lions-tour.com/history/australia1989.asp
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