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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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the most overrated player of the professional era.
Lol. Might be on your own there
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Although AWJ is possibly my least favourite player and seems to get away with terrible dirty play all the time, he is very good. The sort of player that you want on your team but hate playing against.
I do not get the wall to wall adoration he gets for everything he does, especially when you watch the extra cover his team mates have to do towards the end of the game when his engines gone.
He is the main reason that I back all the other home Nations teams over Wales.
Agree that picking him as lions captain appears to be sentimental. I wouldn't have him touring but then again I'm pretty ignorant compared to actual rugby coaches.
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AWu-Tang
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.