CHRIS HEWETT

MAYBE, just maybe, there is life in the old Lion yet, thanks to the Australians. Which must be quite high on the list of sentences you never expected to read.
If the bulletins from Down Under are accurate, only three of the Wallaby nation’s five Super Rugby franchises will be on the eightmatch schedule in a little over two years’ time: the Reds, Waratahs and Brumbies, all of whom have given the British and Irish tourists a proper fight – quite literally, in the case of the Sydneysiders – over the last couple of decades or so.
The Melbourne Reb...