Fergus Slattery
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90 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Fergus Slattery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, we were gone for three and three and a half months, and that's the reason why I stopped playing for the Lions, because I couldn't afford... You've got a job, you've got to work, you've got to get yourself going in this world.
So I was very happy that I'd been fortunate to be on two winning Lions tours.
So the challenge for all these guys is huge, and I think...
The 10-match tour is semi-insane because they're playing, with the exception of the first game, the next nine were all sides that potentially, in theory, could beat the Lions.
And to be under that sort of pressure twice a week, every week, bar the last week, where they've got the little gap, I think that's a mistake.
And I just don't think it's the right thing for the Lions to be doing.
I know money is the major thing that determines what happens and why it happens.
I still don't think it's practical or pragmatic.
And it's one of the things, the other thing that the Lions have to do, and it takes a little bit of time to get it.
And it happened to us in New Zealand and in South Africa.
We played our first two games in Australia in 71.
We lost our first game, which was thankfully against Queensland and not in New Zealand.
But that was not a great start.
And you go back to the 74, we played two matches.
I played in the second one.
That was against Namibia, which was then South West Africa.
And we struggled.
We did win it, but we struggled against it.
So you need a certain number of games because you're playing four countries.
You're coming together as one.
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