Lions eye warm-up in Cardiff

The Lions will decide at a board meeting this week whether to transfer their next fixture from Twickenham to Cardiff rather than Edinburgh or Dublin. As a profitable warmup for their truncated tour of South Africa, the touring team had planned to book HQ for June 26 next year only to discover that Premiership Rugby had already nabbed it for their annual finale to the domestic season
. Sources have told The Rugby Paper that a switch to Cardiff will be considered for a match on the same day, not against an international opponent but the Barbarians as the centrepiece of their annual end-ofse...

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