Willie John’s view on the Lions will be valid always

WARREN Gatland was back ‘home’ in Wales this weekend running the rule over some familiar faces at the Liberty Stadium.
In the Ospreys side were Alun Wyn Jones, Rhys Webb and Justin Tipuric, while Ulster had a couple more of his 2017 British & Irish squad in their ranks in Jack McGrath and Iain Henderson.
It was probably appropriate that Gats was watching Ulster at the end of a week in which arguably their greatest player, and certainly one of the alltime greatest Lions, Willie John McBride, launched a scathing attack on anyone who dared to doubt the relevance of the British ...

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