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Take 45 players to New Zealand, you’re going to need all of them!

Strong men: George Kruis and Maro Itoje in training.

Sam Warburton
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THE 2017 Lions must go to New Zealand mobhanded – and only heavy hitting hard nuts need apply. That is the message from Dick Best, the assistant coach of the 1993 Lions to New Zealand, and also from Peter Winterbottom, the legendary England and Lions openside who was part of the pack that inflicted a 20-7 defeat on the All Blacks in the second Test of the close-run 1993 series.
That 13 point loss to the Lions in Wellington remains New Zealand’s worst reverse on home soil to a British ...

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