These All Blacks aren’t invincibles that they are cracked up to be

Nick Cain says Lions coach Warren Gatland is the man to convince his squad Kiwis are beatable

Nick Cain

By the time the Lions get to face the All Blacks on the field in the first Test at Eden Park, my greatest hope is that the overhyped pomp and circumstance surrounding Wednesday’s squad announcement at the Syon Park Hilton in West London will have been replaced by something more steely.
It will have to be if they are to become the first Lions side to beat New Zealand since 1971. All the video clip hype we saw in the preamble to the squad announcement will be redundant. Instead, it ...

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