By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed

We may be exaggerating here, but not by much: since the wonderful Tom Smith made the last of his half-dozen consecutive international appearances in the red jersey of his dreams, as opposed to the blue one, it has been easier to spot a Twickenham chief executive in a food bank than clap eyes on a Test Lion from Scotland.
In the four southern hemisphere series from 2005 to 2017, there were no starters at all. David Attenborough would have declared the species extinct.
Somewhat miraculously, there was a reported reappearance on Springbok territory three yea...