Age before beauty is backbone of Warren Gatland’s beefed up Lions | Michael Aylwin

Pragmatic intent in taking on South Africa is clear in the coach’s selection of an experienced batch of playersWarren Gatland has insisted the squad he picked for the British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa would have looked different had the destination been New Zealand, and different again were it to be heading for Australia. It is always difficult to discern whether such claims are genuine or just easy soundbites to make a coach’s job sound more nuanced, but a quick glance