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British and Irish Lions team to play the Barbarians in Hong Kong on Saturday: S Hogg (Scotland); A Cuthbert (Wales), J Davies (Wales), J Roberts (Wales), S Maitland (Scotland); O Farrell (England), M Phillips (Wales); M Vunipola (England), R Hibbard (Wales), A Jones (Wales), R Gray (Scotland), P...

Very strong Baa-Baas team, should be some tries in them anyway. St Sam is a doubt with a knee injury, obviously exerting himself for more than the 6 nations could be catching up with our captain fantastic.

Cheers mate, I got that email from the ARU too, been down the past few weeks to Tahs training although I'll probably miss that one but it entirely depends on how quickly DIAC gets me back to work

Lions are without Jenkins who has a calf strain, Wales Fan has the team probably spot on except I'd expect Mike Phillips to play and get a lot of game time leading up to the first test.

Briefly took the piss out of him when he was walking back to Tah HQ during training, seemed in good spirits, asked him if it was serious and he smiled "Nah bro". Not sure what the injury is exactly though.

This is a banana skin for the Lions, they have 14 players coming off finals last weekend so I'd say most of them will play some sort of part in this one as they'll miss the game in HK.

First match of tour kicks off on Saturday, purely a money making exercise to please their sponsors I'd have preferred the Lions to have a game against an Indigenous XV or something along those lines to kick off a tour. Given there are no Leinster, Leicester or Ulster players involved expect to...

Re the Gatland/Best incident, I've heard the same story from a mate who has been part of Gatlands coaching staff and a mutual friend who was involved in the Irish camp at the time. Obviously given the forum you'll have to take it as you want but two different blokes gave me similar accounts of...

It would be a more than 50:50 option for us if we had a kicker who could consistently put the ball where Folau can take it at his highest point, unfortunately Foley doesn't have the skill set to do it in fact there are only a few players in world who have the kicking ability to do this. Unless...

The Tahs bubble burst in meek fashion on Friday night, they couldn't cope with the Rebels at the breakdown and the pack looked tired after some huge efforts over previous weeks. The Tahs still have the slimmest of slim chances of making the finals but they will rue the 3 points that they lost in...

Sean Cronin has been called up to the Irish tour of NA with Niall Annett of Ulster replacing him in the Emerging Ireland squad. Peter O'Mahony is now expected to captain the tour

Ross is the best scrummaging tighthead available to Lions, this season he has been instrumental in Ireland and Leinster winning the scrum battles against Wales, England, Scotland, Clermont, Argentina, Munster, Biarritz, Stade Francais and Ospreys. The only time he got bettered in the tight...

Delighted for Best, he was the obvious choice. All 3 hookers can suffer a major bout of the yips at lineout time, it is worth noting that when POC is in the Ireland side Best does seem to be more accurate. This is also the case with Muller in the Ulster team, the yips usually appear when those...

Its well known that they came to blows after the match in 2008 when Wales beat Ireland in Croke Park. Which other English hooker would you pick? Even with Bests throwing yips he is still, after Mike Ross, the unluckiest man to miss out. The common denominator in it all is Graham Rowntree...

Just watched a few replays for the incident, he is definitely talking to Barnes IMO. His defence is pathetic although I'd expect nothing less from someone of Hartleys class or lack there of. Interesting decision for the old school tie network at the RFU. Do they back one of their senior...

He looked good before he snapped his ankle in 2008, Martin Johnson rushed him back for the November tests and never looked the same player. He went down the road of many any English prospect, hailed as the greatest young player of all time, gets injury, rushed back due to aforementioned hero...

Is that you Fresh Prince? Sorry couldn't resist :D 7's becoming an Olympic sport is probably the worst thing that could happen to USA XV rugby, I could be wrong on this but don't Olympic sports get more government and college funding?

Hartley is a disgusting individual on the rugby pitch, in yet another big game he loses cool. This incident just shows how flawed his selection for the Lions was in first place. Minimum ban for this kind of incident is 6 weeks, given that he has multiple previous citings he should be getting 12...

Fair play to the IRB streaming the games for free, good way to get people to watch these game. Missed the game today, any standout performances?

So which Lions bolters do you want to talk about?