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Peter Jackson: Wales, a once-proud nation with nothing to offer for the British and Irish Lions

Peter Jackson:

When the Lions last won a series in Australia, they picked a starting team borrowed so heavily from one small country as to justify renaming it: Wales & The Rest.
Even without their injured tour captain Sam Warburton, the tourists banked on ten Welshmen to win the decider in Sydney, albeit with a little help from a trio of Irish backs and a pair of front-five English forwards.
A Welsh goalkicker, Leigh Halfpenny, fired a volley of eight goals in between a pair of Welsh backs, Jamie Roberts and George North, contributing half the Lions’ four tries.
It added up to a record win, glorious...

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