The Lions are in Adelaide, their last stop before the test series. Last chance, perhaps, for one or two people in the squad, give Andy Farrell and the coaching team some pause for thought ahead of the selection meeting for that first test. Welcome to the quick tap on the good, the bad, and rugby. I'm Graham Simmons, joined today by the one, the only. James Haskell. Haskell, welcome. I'm not sure why I'm welcoming you to your own bloody podcast.

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Lions ask, let's talk through that. Thoughts on the team, I guess it's kind of predictable,

kind of what you thought might happen. Any surprises in there? Any eyebrow raises?

No, I mean, I think, well, back grows interesting because I was talking about on the show in the

week that my personal choice might have been Josh Vanderfleer, Jack Morgan, six or seven didn't really matter.

And Jack Conan, what I was talking about. Obviously, we said about the line-out option being difficult.

But then you look at that back row, Henry Pollitt, Jack, Morgan, Ben Earl, there are all relatively short guys. So that's an interesting way. He's gone. So we're going to lose some lineout options.

But is that a massive issue against the ANZ team? Because, you know, their line out is going to be

okay, but it's not going to be as sophisticated as against Australia. So that's interesting. You get to see those guys, three guys play together.

So I think that's a real test for the three of them. You know, playing sort of doesn't matter what position, what number you got in the shirt. You know, it's a real old adage that kind of, you know,

sevens are going to be small and six is going to be big. It's basically how they play. And you can

see that they want to play competitive breakdown work. They need some go forward.

All three of those guys give that.

Jack Morgan was brilliant.

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