COLIN BOAG

The Lions tour has somewhat overshadowed what is usually one of the highlights of the early part of the close season – the draws for the European cups.
If you’re one of the lucky ones whose team has made it into the Champions Cup, then you’re looking for a pool from which they might just qualify for the knock-out stages, and hoping to avoid a so-called ‘pool of death’.
However, if your team is in the Challenge Cup, aka the Losers’ Cup or the Mickey Mouse Cup, to give it but a few of its derogatory names, then you’re simply hoping that t...