Lions V Australia 1st Test Line Ups and Comparison

Lions V Wallabies Advantage?

15 Leigh Halfpenny Mogg Lions
14 Tommy Bowe Ioane Evens
13 Brian O'Driscoll AAC Lions
12 Jamie Roberts Leali'ifano Evens
11 George North JOC Wallabies
10 Johnny Sexton Cooper Lions
9 Mike Phillips Genia Wallabies
8 Toby Faletau Palu Evens
7 Justin Tipuric Gill Evens
6 Sam Warburton Hooper Evens
5 Ian Evans Horwill Wallabies
4 Paul O'Connell Simmons Lions
3 Adam Jones Slipper Lions
2 Richard Hibbard Moore Wallabies
1 Cian Healy Robinson Lions

Overall = Lions 6, Wallabies 4 and 5 on Evens

How does anyone else see the 1st test match ups looking?

I'll move this to the international section.

I predict the teams as follows:

15-- Halfpenny --- Beale (he'll be back) - evens for different things
14-- Cuthbert --- Ioane - AUS by a mile
13-- BOD --- AAC - Evens
12-- Roberts --- Barnes - AUS by a bit (but they could pick better 12s)
11-- North --- JOC - AUS by a fair bit (though North might break through him)
10-- Sexton --- Cooper - Evens at different things, maybe an edge to LIONS on a good day
9-- Phillips --- Genia - AUS by a mile
8-- Faletau --- Higginbotham - AUS by a bit (evens if it's Palu)
7-- Warburton --- Hooper - AUS by a fair bit (same if it's Gill)
6-- Lydiate --- Smith - AUS by a fair bit (by more if it's Higginbotham)
5 -- Evans --- Simmons - LIONS
4-- POC --- Horwill - Evens
3-- Jones --- Slipper - LIONS but by nowhere near as much as you might think
2-- Hibbard --- Moore - AUS
1-- Healy --- Robinson - LIONS but not by as much as you'd think

But we could pick a better Lions 15 than that

Oh, and that's Australia 9, Lions 3

This is so subjective it makes it pretty much impossible to do!

Griff wrote:This is so subjective it makes it pretty much impossible to do!

True. Also it involves the guessing of the final make-up of not 1 but 2 teams and the form of each player in the future

I'm with Griff, firstly I don't agree with the lions test side, then I don't agree with the Aus test side, thirdly I don't agree with the match ups won/lost and lastly rugby doesn't work like that, If lions dominate posession and BOD has a blinder how is JOC/Ioanie going to live with the 2 welsh wings? Aus certainly struggled to cope with Cuthbert in the summer, he cause them all sorts of problems!