WARREN Gatland has had the entire season to pursue a single objective, identifying a team of 23 to win two Tests in New Zealand this summer. How strange, then, that after eight months with no other rugby issues to distract him, the Lions head coach should have us believe that “there’s no clear number one, two or three in some positions”.
Really? To paraphrase an angry American tennis player whose brattish behaviour including berating umpires: “You cannot be serious.” Perhaps it’s not meant as anything more than a motivational message to the entire crew, t...