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Cain: Dwyer backs Jones to get it right. Shane: Captaincy will be making of Faletau. Blindside revelations....
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Gatland the brave got his selections right again
JUST as Lukhanyo Am made a huge statement in the first minute with his bone-crunching hit on Elliot Daly, the Lions made their own mark with that unstoppable driving maul at the start of the second half which swung momentum.
Poisoned anchovies sabotaged my tour
I’M still convinced that the food poisoning myself and half-a-dozen others got on the flight to South Africa on the Lions tour in ’74 was intentional. Anyone who’d chosen the meal with an anchovy garnish fell ill. I’ve not eaten them to this day, I felt so rough. I never truly got back up to speed after that. Instead of running onto the training field, I was running to the toilet.
Oundle was finishing school for Curry twins
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools
ROG ends Ireland's long wait for Slam
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful
Incessant TMO calls become so annoying
With the first Test over, I can’t help thinking that the only way this series will be completed is if the result is different next week.
Farewell to Newlands, mecca of memories
Many of the things that have passed into rugby history are welcome to stay there: no one blessed with a beating heart and a functioning conscience misses the rebel tours of apartheid South Africa or England’s nocturnal depravities in Queenstown or Pablo Matera’s social media adventures circa 2012.
Lions have blind spot for English flankers
When Carwyn James went to work on the All Blacks 50 summers ago, his assembly of a series-winning machine included two components of enduring reliability.
Gatland's Lions get ready for Bok-lash
WARREN Gatland warned his Lions of a major Bok-lash after the tourists savored first blood in a bruising and brutal Cape Town battle.
Fighting talk from Galthie should put fear in rivals
It should come as precisely no surprise that France head coach Fabien Galthie reckons he knows 90 per cent of his squad for the next World Cup, two years before the first match kicks off.
All Blacks tell Wales: We're still coming OK
WALES’ money-spinning clash against the All Blacks will go ahead at the end of October after the New Zealand union said they would not be following the country’s Rugby League side which cited Covid fears when last week pulling out of the autumn World Cup in England along with Australia.
