“Lacks personality” – Lions legend Scott Gibbs rips apart Gatland’s selection

SECOND-ROW:

• 4. Maro Itoje (England)
• 5. Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)

Gibbs said: ““If the game gets stuck in the middle 30 of the field, then the ‘Boks are just going to eat them up all day long.”

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BACK-ROW:

• 6. Courtney Lawes (England)
• 7. Tom Curry (England)
• 8. Taulupe Faletau (Wales)

Gibbs said: “I expect it to be another attritional type of performance.

“It does concern me that it will be a performance based on we have to match fire with fire.

“I think that’s going to be a very tall order for the Lions.”

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