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NICK CAIN

THERE are times when you wonder whether the current generation of administrators are leading the game straight to the knackers yard. This week’s virtual Press conference with the Lions managing director, Ben Calveley, was a case in point.
There was a shroud of wishful thinking around Calveley as he tried to explain why an extra fixture against Japan at Murrayfield was a huge benefit to the Lions a week before the start of their 2021 tour of South Africa.
Calveley had already made the mistake of trying to claim it would give Warren Gatla...