Their lowest post-war total in an initial Lions squad is five players back in 1993 - when Tony Clement, Ieuan Evans, Scott Gibbs, Robert Jones and Richard Webster toured New Zealand.

Pierre Schoeman believes John Dalziel’s appointment to the British & Irish Lions’ coaching team is thoroughly deserved but he ...

Just a few random thoughts this week, and if regular readers detect an elegiac note in my scribblings today then that’s perceptive of you.