A place for Henry Pollock but no Welshmen? Key Lions questions
The waiting is almost over. At 2pm on Thursday, the British & Irish Lions squad for this summer's tour to Australia will be announced at a public event in London.
From settling on a captain to controversial final decisions — does Henry Pollock make it? Do any Welshmen? Where are all the full backs? — here is a look at the questions facing Andy Farrell, the Lions head coach, at the final selection meeting.
All signs point to it being Maro Itoje. Andy Farrell insisted in March that he was considering five or six choices — perhaps from Caelan Doris, Itoje, Jamie George, Dan Sheehan, Jac Morgan, and Owen Farrell, his son— but it has always felt like a two-horse race between the Ireland and England captains, Doris and Itoje.
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