REPLACEMENT strategies are becoming the bane of Lions tours, as the furore around the ‘Geography Six’ – the late call-ups to this squad –has thrown into sharp relief.
Warren Gatland’s decision to bring in half a dozen players from the Wales and Scotland squads who were close at hand on tours of Australasia as bench insurance in the penultimate week of the tour has been savaged.
His fiercest critics included many influential former Lions, and was at the root of his damaging decision to leave his bench almost untouched in the draw against the Hurricanes on Tues...