Four years ago The Telegraph predicted the 2021 Lions squad - and it didn't go well - Ruck

Four years ago The Telegraph predicted the 2021 Lions squad – and it didn’t go well

Some of the names are shoo-ins for Warren Gatland’s starting team in South Africa this summer. Others, though, are still uncapped…

Normally we wouldn’t be so sniffy about rubbish predictions as viewed in glorious 20-20 hindsight (Christ knows we’ve cocked up enough of our own over the years!) but it’s the Telegraph, so…y’know…sod ’em!

The players in bold DID make Gatland’s 2021 squad>

Props

  • Rob Evans (Wales)
  • Jack McGrath (Ireland)
  • Mako Vunipola (England)
  • Zander Fagerson (Scotland)
  • Tadhg Furlong (Ireland)
  • Kyle Sinckler (England)

Hookers

  • Jamie George (England)
  • Neil Scannell (Ireland)
  • Ryan Elias (Wales)

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