HAMISH Watson has been in Springbok crosshairs since the Lions squad was announced. It did not take any great powers of deduction to recognise that the line from one South African commentator that Gatland had “picked hobbits to be giant slayers” was aimed mainly at the Scotland openside.
In South African rugby big has always been beautiful, with selection policy sticking more strictly to the mantra that ‘a good big ‘un will always beat a good little ‘un’ than in any other major Rugby Union nation. This applies in the back row, in particular, where the 6ft 0in Watson would almost certainly b...