The British and Irish Lions coaches assembled on Monday afternoon for their first selection meeting ahead of the 2021 tour of South Africa.
Warren Gatland revealed that 57 different players were discussed with all four coaches said to be in agreement on around 50% of the names.
Below we look at the 57 favourites to make the squad, according to
BACK-THREE (9):
- Stuart Hogg (Scotland)
- Liam Williams (Wales)
- Josh Adams (Wales)
- Louis Rees-Zammit (Wales)
- Elliot Daly (England)
- Anthony Watson (England)
- George North (Wales)
- Duhan van de Merwe (Scotland)
- Jonny May (England)
CENTRES (7):
- Robbie Henshaw (Ireland)
- Henry Slade (England)
- Chris Harris (Scotland)
- Jonathan Davies (Wales)
- Manu Tuilagi (England)
- Garry Ringrose (Ireland)
- Bundee Aki (Ireland)
FLY-HALVES (5):
- Owen Farrell (England)
- Dan Biggar (Wales)
- Finn Russell (Scotland)
- Johnny Sexton (Ireland)
- George Ford (England)
SCRUM-HALVES (6):
- Conor Murray (Ireland)
- Ben Youngs (England)
- Ali Price (Scotland)
- Gareth Davies (Wales)
- Tomos Williams (Wales)
- Jamison Gibson-Park (Ireland)
PROPS (8):
- Wyn Jones (Wales)
- Joe Marler (England)
- Rory Sutherland (Scotland)
- Kyle Sinckler (England)
- Tadhg Furlong (Ireland)
- Andrew Porter (Ireland)
- Zander Fagerson (Scotland)
- Mako Vunipola (England)
- Tomas Francis (Wales)
HOOKER (4):
- Ken Owens (Wales)
- Jamie George (England)
- George Turner (Scotland)
- Luke Cowan-Dickie (England)
SECOND-ROW (7):
- Maro Itoje (England)
- Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)
- Tadhg Beirne (Ireland)
- James Ryan (Ireland)
- Iain Henderson (Ireland)
- Jonny Gray (Scotland)
- Courtney Lawes (England)
BACK-ROW (9):
- Tom Curry (England)
- Hamish Watson (Scotland)
- Taulupe Faletau (Wales)
- CJ Stander (Ireland)
- Justin Tipuric (Wales)
- Billy Vunipola (England)
- Sam Underhill (England)
- Josh Navidi (Wales)
- Sam Simmonds (England)
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