2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA

[Bones]

Navidi would probably nudge ahead of the Saffa or Tipuric.

[Machpants]

Gatland has picked his B team, due to several 'no thank yous'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56719025

Man Neil Jenkins looks sick, I honestly wonder if he is ok?

[MiketheSnow]

@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Gatland has picked his B team, due to several 'no thank yous'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56719025

Man Neil Jenkins looks sick, I honestly wonder if he is ok?

Terrible portraits all round

[Catogrande]

@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Gatland has picked his B team, due to several 'no thank yous'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56719025

Man Neil Jenkins looks sick, I honestly wonder if he is ok?

He has the look of a salad dodger these days.

[Bones]

@machpants he's just old isn't he? Think he was about 67 when he played his last test.

[MajorStokes]

@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Gatland has picked his B team, due to several 'no thank yous'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56719025

Man Neil Jenkins looks sick, I honestly wonder if he is ok?

They all look pretty shit if you ask me. Terrible photography.

[Catogrande]

@majorrage said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Gatland has picked his B team, due to several 'no thank yous'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56719025

Man Neil Jenkins looks sick, I honestly wonder if he is ok?

They all look pretty shit if you ask me. Terrible photography.

Yeah, none of them will be using those pics on their tinder profiles.

[Mackerzzzz]

Great an entire coaching staff of 60 yearold baldies

[Mackerzzzz]

@mackerzzzz said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Great an entire coaching staff of 60 yearold baldies

All they need now is Graham Rowdtree

[Machpants]

@mackerzzzz said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

@mackerzzzz said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Great an entire coaching staff of 60 yearold baldies

All they need now is Graham Rowdtree

He's part of the A Team and turned the offer down

[antipodean]

@mikethesnow said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

@machpants said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Gatland has picked his B team, due to several 'no thank yous'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56719025

Man Neil Jenkins looks sick, I honestly wonder if he is ok?

Terrible portraits all round

Look like mug shots from a Guy Ritchie movie.

[sparky]

B & I Lions tour going ahead. Squad to be in a bubble for two months. Squad to named on Thursday. Ben Youngs has ruled himself out for family reasons (wife pregnant).

[Machpants]

@sparky As long as SA doesn’t go Full India :crossed_fingers:

[Mackerzzzz]

@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

B & I Lions tour going ahead. Squad to be in a bubble for two months. Squad to named on Thursday. Ben Youngs has ruled himself out for family reasons (wife pregnant).

not that he was going to go

[Machpants]

@mackerzzzz said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

B & I Lions tour going ahead. Squad to be in a bubble for two months. Squad to named on Thursday. Ben Youngs has ruled himself out for family reasons (wife pregnant).

not that he was going to go

Nope, he was one of the few that were written to officially to ask if they were happy to go with the 2 months in a bubble. Not gauranteed to go, but on what is a very short list

[Catogrande]

@mackerzzzz @Machpants

He’s also on an even shorter list. That of father, sons/brothers to have beaten NZ.

[Bovidae]

Has Gatland confirmed the squad size yet? I suppose that is dependent on how many games are to be played.

[sparky]

@bovidae said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Has Gatland confirmed the squad size yet? I suppose that is dependent on how many games are to be played.

Looks like the magic number is 36

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56983845

[Stargazer]

If you go to the tweet itself - by clicking on the blue twitterbird in the top right corner - you can watch a clip in which they show the trophy being made.

https://twitter.com/lionsofficial/status/1389508494630531073

[Bovidae]

@sparky said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

@bovidae said in 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to SA:

Has Gatland confirmed the squad size yet? I suppose that is dependent on how many games are to be played.

Looks like the magic number is 36

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56983845

Some interesting selections in that article. And the original itinerary remains too.