Lions Triumphant: The Captains Story

The history of Lions stand-in captains by the numbers

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They took this into the World Cup , where they won crucial matches against South Africa, Wales and France, beating Australia in the final to win the cup with an extra time drop goal. Johnson continued to play for Leicester until Leicester struggled after winning the League and European double, slumping to 6th in the Premiership season. As focus was on Johnson and co.

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Dean Richards was sacked with John Wells his assistant taking charge. Wells led Leicester into 5th and qualification for the Heineken Cup. Johnson announced this was to be his final season along with Neil Back , who was also retiring, and coach Wells, who was leaving Leicester to join the England coaching staff. Tigers topped the table and went straight to the Premiership Final against Wasps.

However Johnson was not to have a fairy-tale ending, Wasps winning In the European Cup Leicester had a memorable victory away to Leinster in the quarter finals but were defeated by Toulose at the Walkers Stadium. Johnson's testimonial match and farewell to competitive rugby, held at Twickenham on 4 June , was one of the biggest rugby events of the year. It was historic in another way as the match marked the return of All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu after a recent kidney transplant.

In November it was rumoured the then England head rugby coach, Andy Robinson , was to be sacked and Johnson was one of many names speculated by the press as his replacement. Johnson was appointed England team manager in April England started the Autumn internationals by beating the Pacific Islands 39— That was followed with a loss to Australia, then a 42—6 defeat to South Africa and then another loss this time 32—6 against New Zealand at Twickenham. England had four wins under Johnson going into ; in the Six Nations Championship they beat Italy 36—11, France 34—10 and Scotland 26—12 but were defeated by Ireland by 14—13 and to Wales by 23— In the Six Nations England won their first two games against Wales and Italy, losing against Ireland, drawing with Scotland and losing their final game against France, allowing the French to win a Grand Slam.

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In , Johnson led a new-look England side to win the Six Nations title, thanks to wins over Wales, Italy, France and Scotland, though a 24—8 loss to Ireland on the final weekend of the competition denied them the Grand Slam. World Rankings Column shows the World Ranking England was placed at on the following Monday after each of their matches. Martin Johnson comes from a sporting family.

His great-grandfather was a wrestler. Matthew Mullineux decided that after losing the first test that he should withdraw from further test matches, handing on field captaincy to Frank Stout , but remained tour captain.

David Bedell-Sivright was injured during the first test. Teddy Morgan took over captaincy on the field but Bedell-Sivright remained tour captain. The team that John Raphael captained was not selected by the four Home Nations governing body, but had been organised by Oxford University and billed as the English Rugby Union team. However, it was denoted as the Combined British team by its Argentine hosts because it also included three Scots.

Jack Jones captained the first test only, but Tommy Smyth remained the tour captain. Bleddyn Williams captained in the third and fourth tests v New Zealand and the first test v Australia. Cliff Morgan captained in the third test. Michael Owen captained the Lions in the first tour game, the test vs.

Brian O'Driscoll was injured at the beginning of the first test. Martin Corry and Gareth Thomas took over captaincy on the field but O'Driscoll remained tour captain. Sam Warburton was injured in the second test and ruled out of the third. Alun Wyn Jones replaced him as captain for the third test.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other people named Martin Johnson, see Martin Johnson disambiguation. England squad — Rugby World Cup. English national rugby union team captains.

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The robust all-weather England scrum-half took the record by himself in his last Lions match, also the one where he featured as stand-in Lions skipper at the end of the Lions tour. The Lions lost, but Jeeps also took his all-time Lions Tests record to Both appearance records were later comprehensively obliterated by one of the younger members of his team, Irish lock Willie-John McBride, who played 17 Tests and 70 matches in all on his five tours between then and Not only did the other scrum-half, Durham's Charles Adamson, another Englishman who was never capped, play extremely well in his place but, even when fit, Mullineux had plenty to keep him busy since he had picked the team, managed it, preached regularly and refereed their final match, against Victoria -- industry which earned a poem in his honour from the famed Australian writer 'Banjo' Patterson.

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We went through one move that involved four or five scissors and one of the players told him that we would never be able to do it in a game. And so we won that final game and immediately it was over, Carwyn said John Pring, who had taken charge of the first three, would control the final Test; it was a brilliant stroke. James appreciated the value on a week, match tour of the momentum and confidence generated by a winning run. Then, as this year, the warm-up matches involved the cream of New Zealand rugby.

Waikato were third up and expected to provide the Lions with their first upset, but they were blown away. So were Wellington, , and Otago. A week before the first Test the New Zealand union pitched the tourists against the Ranfurly Shield holders, Canterbury. Anticipating that the opposition would use his team as target practice, he left out Gerald Davies and Barry John. We did not have a team doctor then and had to rely on the opposition. The referee at one point got the captains together and told them he was going to follow the ball and it was up to them to sort out any trouble.

In every player contributed fully to the success of the tour. Doug Smith predicted before we flew to New Zealand that we would win the series and Carwyn was always confident.

You can single out a moment in a game where it turns and there it was when the wing John Bevan, whose strength meant he would not be out of place in the game today, ran through their full-back, Fergie McCormick, an iconic figure, and scored a try. We had played some exhilarating rugby on the tour and scored some wonderful tries but they now knew they were tough: John tortured McCormick with his kicking, pulling him from one side of the pitch to the other even though New Zealand dominated possession.

McCormick was so shattered that he missed a penalty from in front of the posts with 20 minutes to go that would have tied the scores James got his wish: McCormick was dropped for Laurie Mains, a 15 he did not consider to be an attacking threat and who made the All Blacks even more predictable.

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