2013 Lions Squad Announcement - Live updates & Discussion

First topic message reminder :

I'm at work with no access to TV/Radio for the big annoucement. I'd be gretful if some of my 606v2 brethern could provide updates as names are announced for the tour.

Please don't turn this into a debate about who should/shouldn't be on tour until after all the names are up, to keep the page clean for others to see the names of the sqaud.

Thanking you in advance

2103 British & Irish Lions Tour Sqaud:

Cian Healy
Tom Youngs
Richard Hibbard
Dylan Hartley
Dan Cole
Adam Jones
Matt Stevens
Mako Vunipola
Richie Gray
Alun Wyn Jones
Paul O’Connell
Geoff Parling
Tom Croft
Sean O’Brien
Justin Tipuric
Toby Faletau
Sam Warburton (C)
Ben Youngs
Mike Phillips
Owen Farrell
George North
Jamie Roberts
Brian O’Driscoll
Manu Tuilagi
Alex Cuthbert
Leigh Halfpenny
Conor Murray
Rob Kearney
Ian Evans
Gethin Jenkins
Dan Lydiate
Jamie Heaslip
Johnathan Sexton
Jonathan Davies
Tommy Bowe
Stuart Hogg
Sean Maitland

Wales: 15
England: 10
Ireland: 9
Scotland: 3

Farrell

Only 2 Outhalves. No laidlaw or Hook either

Murray

Maitland

go him

Cannot argue so far.

NO CARE!!

Scrum-halves: Murray, Phillips, Youngs

Matt Stevens really?

Matt Stevens!!!!!!!!!!

Rubbish

Hartley

Yikes.

NO RORY BEST??

Props: Cole, Healy, Jenkins, Jones, Stevens, Vunipola

STEVENS...?!?

Hartley?!

tigertattie wrote:Maitland

go him

He deserves it, fair play to him.

Hookers: Hartley, Hibbard, Youngs

POC in!

Locks: Evans, Gray, Jones, O'Connell, Parling

Wales lions looking good .

Alphabetical order? Poor Simon Zebo...

WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAT?

Back-row: Croft, Faletau, Heaslip, Lydiate, O'Brien, Tipuric, Warburton

Has to be Warburton or Poc for captain right

Warburton it is

Wow - WTF (Stevens)

Gatland steps up to name tour captain as.....Sam Warburton

Its a fix!

Two I am utterly astonished at NOT being in: Rory Best & Tom Wood.

What an odd choice team, odd choice in captain, too many lock options and no 3rd out half????

VERY DISSAPOINTED!!!

damage_13 wrote:Props: Cole, Healy, Jenkins, Jones, Stevens, Vunipola

STEVENS...?!?

Instead of Grant?

Heaslip and Croft unbelievably fortunate.

Very Wales dominated as expected with captain fantastic mr Warburton set to lead.

wow 3 Scottish players... what a joke.

Some shockers in there

Hartley - Stevens - Croft!

Farrell Stevens and Vunipola are big surprises...

cant believe hartley in over best

OptiaJim reminds us...

7 - Wales have lost their last seven matches with Sam Warburton as captain, including four against Australia. Skip. #Lions

Stevens ? wow big call

Stunned Youngs has pipped Rory for a hooker spot!

George Carlin wrote:

damage_13 wrote:Props: Cole, Healy, Jenkins, Jones, Stevens, Vunipola

STEVENS...?!?

Instead of Grant?

I know.

Owen Farrell

Croft, no Robshaw?

Stevens.....??????

Vunipola...now THATS a big call!!

Hartley???

Well i couldnt have been further away from the selection

mikey_philVIII wrote:

George Carlin wrote:

damage_13 wrote:Props: Cole, Healy, Jenkins, Jones, Stevens, Vunipola

STEVENS...?!?

Instead of Grant?

I know.

Stevens & Vuniploa??????? WTF?????

And the BBC headline? "Wilkinson misses out." Pathetic.

Right, no bickering, lets support them.

Lydiate??? Stevens?? No Launchbury?

Stevens?! Vunipola?! Hartley??! Lydiate?! No Wood?! No Best?!

More English than expected:

Manu, Farrell, Youngs, Cole, Stevens (agree WTF), Vunipola (blimey), Hartley (oh) Youngs, Parling, Croft.

No Kelly Brown????

Well said LordDowlais. Now we are one!

Very disappointed

Stevens?

Hartley?

Frarrell?

Croft?

and I'm English?

go

I guess playing Wood at No8 in the 6N didnt do him any favours.

No Kelly Brown - big mistake to take others of unproven fitness and form over him. the only glaring error tho I think, Hartley and Stevens seems a bit odd.

Hartley, Youngs, Stevens, Vunipola (to a lesser degree) Croft and Lydiate are just ridiculous calls!!!

Grant, Best, Owens, Robshaw, Brown are so much better options!!!

IRISH: Healy, POC, Heaslip, SOB, Murray, Sexton, BOD, Bowe, Kearney