A YEAR AHEAD OF THE 2025 LIONS TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, PAUL REES LOOKS AT HOW ANDY FARRELL’S TEAM MIGHT LINE UP

THE Lions tour to Australia ends this weekend next year. Two of the last three visits there have been successful and it is the trip most likely to yield a series victory with South Africa last vanquished in 1997 and New Zealand 26 years before that, although the Lions tied the rubber there in 2017.
A Test team picked today would look very different to one from a year ago, not least because a number of players who either retired or stood down from the international scen...