British & Irish Lions to Australia
It's time for that hotly contested moment every 4 years when people try to guess who will be in the Lions squad to tour Australia.
Pseudolus has already thrown his toys out of the pram and announced his inavailability to tour based on the fact that there may be some players selected from the 2 time European Champions. Fair enough I say.
I'm not picking the Test team because that would be silly before the team has even played, so I'm picking my squad. There were some very good players who missed the 6N who people seem to have forgotten. I haven't so here's my squad subject to some demonstrations of fitness.
Fullbacks: Leigh Halfpenny, Rob Kearney
Wings: George North, Tommy Bowe, Tim Visser, Alex Cuthbert
Centres: Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, Manu Tualagi, Brian O Driscoll
Fly Halves: Johnny Sexton, Owen Farrell
Scrum Halves: Mike Phillips, Danny Care, Ben Youngs
Props: Gethin Jenkins, Ryan Grant, Andrew Sheridan, Adam Jones, Dan Cole, Euan Murray
Hookers: Richard Hibbard, Dylan Hartley, Rory Best
Second-Rows: Richie Gray, Geoff Parling, Alun Wyn Jones, Paul O' Connell, Jim Hamilton
Flankers: Tom Croft, Sam Warburton (C), Sean O'Brien, Chris Robshaw
No 8s: Ben Morgan, Johnnie Beattie
There are a few players who have been hard done by, but that's life, I'm sure they'll forgive me.
11 Welsh, 7 Irish, 11 English and 6 Scottish.
Who do you think should be going?