Lions: Team announced for First Test!

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The time for fevered speculation has ended as the Lions Team has been announced. Well it wasn’t really that fevered, there are a couple of minor talking points, particularly in the front row, with Corbisiero and Youngs starting, and I’d probably have had Kearney starting with Halfpenny on the wing instead of Cuthbert, but apart from that the team basically picked itself.

Personally, and I’m probably going to incur the wrath of our Turnip readers here, but I would have gone with Gray in second row alongside Wyn Jones. I don’t think O’Connell has three tests in him and I had a feeling that Gray was going to be the player that excelled on the tour but there you go, I’ve been wrong abut O’Connell before!

Anyway here’s the bumph from The Official Lions:

North has passed a fitness test on the hamstring injury he picked up in the win over a Combined New South . . .

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2 responses to “Lions: Team announced for First Test!”

  1. Back row (including lydiate on the bench) are all fairly position specific. SOB’s ability to play 6, 7 and 8 would have been a better choice for the bench.

  2. Lydiate’s inclusion concerns me. Quality player when on form, but hasn’t shown much since his return from injury! If Warburton gets injured we could have a real problem at the breakdown!

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