Adam Beard

Stormers 3-49 Lions: Yes, signs are positive but Lions had it easy again

THERE was no shortage of positives from this warm-up for the first Test, with a barnstorming display by Luke Cowan-Dickie at hooker and a twinkletoed Lions debut by fly-half Marcus Smith, the pick of the bunch.
Then there was the Lazarus-like reappearance with 27 minutes left to play of Alun Wyn Jones, the tour captain, whose involvement seemed to have been brutally curtailed when he suffered a shoulder dislocation against Japan just three weeks ago.
The Welsh talisman looked hungry for action, and fit enough to handle it, as he helped the Lions round off this seven-try romp.
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