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Hogg and Mako are on the plane

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The Rugby Paper Team
26 February 2017

The British & Irish Lions’ tour to New Zealand this summer is one of the most eagerly anticipated events for years. Can the Home Unions finest unseat the world champions, beatin g the All Blacks for the first time since 1971?
Lions coach Warren Gatland has been keeping a close eye on the Six Nations Championship, sifting his potential candidates.
Here we start a new weekly series in which our leading writer NICK CAIN assesses the leading candidates in each position. This week he looks at full-back and loose-head prop.
FULL-BACKS
Stuart Hogg is the name on everybody’s lips ...

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