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AWJ as captain is such a bad call. He's not good enough, he was laughably bad in the 6 Nations, literally stands on the wing out of the way sucking in air for long periods. He's not got the engine for Test match Rugby anymore. The media's obsession with him as a modern day great will forever baffle me, the most overrated player of the professional era. Put it this way if he was South African he'd still have 150 odd Wales caps.
Rumours of Simmonds being picked are good for the Lions. Billy gets taken to the cleaners every time he faces Vermeulen and Simmonds will cause far more problems for SA. There'll be a lot of lucky English tourists (Daley, George, Farrell). If he picks Care I think that's a decent wild card option. Fundamental problem is that maybe 3 (max 4) Lions would make the SA team (Furlong, Curry, Hogg). Lions need to hope that the fact that SA haven't played since the WC final and will be seriously rusty will give them a chance. On paper should be 3-0 to the Boks but sadly it doesn't work like that.
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So... Lions announcement in the next half an hour or so.
Be interesting to see which way Gatland goes on some of the fringe choices.