Lions squad

Tom1986

Corbisiero has apparently left the England squad to fly out

la gran siete

Because the Welsh seem to think he is the bees knees thats why and he isnt .Farrel is the better option

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and bite citing as well

Tom1986

You understand I'm English, right? And I haven't 'championed' Biggar.....

la gran siete

after two matches here is my 23 test team


Halfpenny
Bowe
Bod
Tuilagi
North
Sexton
Philips
Heaslip
Croft
O'Brian
O'Connel capt
Gray
Vunipola
Hibbert
Jones

bench
Corbisiero
T Youngs
Cole
I Evans
Tipuric
B Youngs
Farrel
Hogg

la gran siete

ok you are English and probably  Tigers fan.Now what is worse being a Welsh or  Tiger's fan, both are one eyed

Tom1986

According to your synopsis, a Welsh Tigers fan?

Was it a genuine question....?

la gran siete

Naaah i dont do genuine questions, but being both an England and Quins fan then obviously Welsh Tigers  dont sit too comfortably with me these days

Tom1986

TBH I doubt very much you'd find many Welsh Tigers anyway.....

It's those (fake and paid for) Sarries fans you have to watch out for

Anyway...back on topic....

Much like the previous team posted, I like the look of what you've picked there. Manu has a lot to do to break the BOD/Roberts partnership, but we shall see. I also think Cuthbert over Bowe.

Your front 5 look pretty much nailed on for me...with Croft having to start. I guess Gatland will go with Warburton at 7 (I'd be with Tipuric myself) and Faletau at 8.

Tom1986

Team for Saturday:

15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Jonathan Davies, 11 Tommy Bowe, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Ben Youngs, 1 Gethin Jenkins, 2 Tom Youngs, 3 Matt Stevens, 4 Richie Gray, 5 Geoff Parling, 6 Dan Lydiate, 7 Sam Warburton, 8 Toby Faletau

Replacements
16 Richard Hibbard, 17 Mako Vunipola, 18 Adam Jones, 19 Paul O'Connell, 20 Justin Tipuric, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Jonathan Sexton, 23 George North

So Ben Youngs has to lead the line in this game, as with Mr F Jr outside him, he doesn't have any other option

Interesting to see Many retained, this time with Davies, I'm inclined to suggest that this means that BOD/Roberts is definitely the preferred test pairing therefore.

Looking forward to seeing that second row pairing, looks very strong (although it's a strong area anywhere of course).

Warburton is back as well, still think he's the 3rd best 7 in the squad, but as he's already been named captain, I would think he'll be a starter in the tests.