56 h. ago British & Irish Lions calm fears over Tadhg Furlong’s fitness for Australia tour

Leinster prop may feature in URC final against Bulls‘We will put our best foot forward for Argentina’The British & Irish Lions have insisted they have no fitness concerns over the veteran tighthead prop Tadhg Furlong and have revealed he and other Premiership and URC finalists will be considered for their opening match against Argentina in Dublin next Friday.Furlong, who has started the last nine Lions Tests, has not played for his province since early May due to a calf injury, prompting fears over his availability for the Australia tour. Zander Fagerson also withdrew from the squad on Monday, leaving options at tighthead severely limited. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Finlay Bealham will be a great fit for the group – Lions head coach Andy Farrell

Bealham was called up after Glasgow Warriors tight head Zander Fagerson was ruled out of the summer tour to Australia with a calf problem.

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4 d. ago British and Irish Lions face mounting tighthead problems as Zander Fagerson ruled out of tour

Doubts have also emerged over Tadhg Furlong’s fitness as Asher Opoku-Fordjour called up to train in Portugal, along with Jamie George

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4 d. ago Scotland prop Zander Fagerson to miss Lions tour with calf injury

The Glasgow Warriors tight head will be replaced in the squad by Ireland and Connacht’s Finlay Bealham.

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4 d. ago Zander Fagerson ruled out of Lions tour as Jamie George among call

The Scotland tighthead is replaced by Ireland’s Finlay Bealham in Andy Farrell’s squad

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4 d. ago Injury crisis brewing for British & Irish Lions with Fagerson out of tour

Tighthead Bealham called up with Furlong also injuredOpoku-Fordjour and George join Portugal training campThe British & Irish Lions are facing mounting injury problems at tighthead prop with Zander Fagerson ruled out of the tour of Australia amid serious question marks over Tadhg Furlong’s fitness.Glasgow’s Fagerson has withdrawn from the squad due to a calf injury with the Ireland and Connacht tighthead prop Finlay Bealham added to the 38-man group as a result. Furlong, meanwhile, has not featured for Leinster since the Champions Cup semi-final defeat by Northampton on 3 May and is also battling with a calf injury. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Injury crisis brewing for British & Irish Lions with Zander Fagerson out of tour

Tighthead Bealham called up with Furlong also injuredOpoku-Fordjour and George join Portugal training campThe British & Irish Lions are facing mounting injury problems at tighthead prop with Zander Fagerson ruled out of the tour of Australia amid serious question marks over Tadhg Furlong’s fitness.Glasgow’s Fagerson has withdrawn from the squad due to a calf injury with the Ireland and Connacht tighthead prop Finlay Bealham added to the 38-man group as a result. Furlong, meanwhile, has not featured for Leinster since the Champions Cup semi-final defeat by Northampton on 3 May and is also battling with a calf injury. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Lions set to be without 16 players as England star called into squad

The British & Irish Lions will be without 16 players for their first training camp

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5 d. ago Lions squad headache for Andy Farrell as 16 players unavailable for first camp

The British and Irish Lions training camp was always going to clash with the two domestic finals and it means Andy Farrell's absentee list runs into double digits with Leinster and Bath among the finalists

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2 w. ago British & Irish Lions: Sam Warburton outlines Fin Smith task as "best winger" misses out

The battle for the British and Irish Lions 10 shirt could hot up before the Australia Test series as Fin Smith looks to usurp the current favourite, Finn Russell

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2 w. ago Scotland star Jamie Ritchie sure he ‘did all he could’ to secure Lions selection

The 28-year-old Edinburgh forward was disappointed not to be included in Andy Farrell’s squad for the summer tour of Australia.

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2 w. ago The Breakdown | A flashback to following the 2001 Lions’ enthralling tour of Australia

After a taste of the atmosphere during a post-university year travelling I was hooked and the memories will last a lifetimeJune 2001. I’m on an overnight Greyhound bus from Cairns to Townsville. A typical post-university year travelling in Australia and New Zealand has taken an unwelcome turn after an equally typical relationship breakup.Initially there had been no plans to follow that year’s British & Irish Lions tour, even though I had been enthralled by the classic encounter against the Springboks four years before. With my newfound freedom it seemed logical to head south, a couple of hundred miles down the coast, to see the legendary tourists in action. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Finn Russell nominated for prestigious award alongside fellow British and Irish Lion

What the stats say as Russell up for player of season

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3 w. ago The complex eligibility debate at the heart of the British and Irish Lions squad

Sione Tuipulotu and James Lowe are two of a group of foreign-born Lions tourists who will add plenty to Andy Farrell’s squad in Australia – but not everyone is happy that they have been picked

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3 w. ago Three new Welshmen join British and Irish Lions tour as squad and staff assemble

Andy Farrell's squad have come together for the first time ahead of a busy summer - with some new additions revealed

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4 w. ago British and Irish Lion Tom Curry admits to mixed emotions after second call

Tom Curry has made a second British and Irish Lions tour but twin brother Ben narrowly missed out, leading to mixed emotions with the pair determined to bring Premiership success to Sale

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4 w. ago Lions star credits former football hooligan with changing his life after brush with law

British and Irish Lions star Ellis Genge was heading down the wrong path before former Bristol City football hooligan Lloyd Russell stepped in to mentor him

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