Walkabout hosts live Sky Sports broadcast
Following on from the success of two Rugby Club special shows, broadcast live from The Cabbage Patch in Twickenham and O’Neills in Cardiff, Sky Sports staged a third British and Irish Lions special live from Walkabout, Temple.
On the night, Rugby Club host Alex Payne was joined by a panel of four former British and Irish Lions players. Stuart Barnes, Donal Lenihan, Alan Tait and Robert Jones were on hand to field questions from the 150-strong crowd who had packed the venue to watch the show.
The event was hugely popular with the fans – both Lions and Aussies alike – who enjoyed an evening of good-natured debate and banter with the panel and each other, before the majority came down on the side of a Lions victory.
Simon Kaye, Chief Operating Officer at iNTERTAIN (parent company of Walkabout) commented on the success of the event: “Sky Sports made it a great event. They were really organised and everything was done really well...