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2021 British & Irish Lions Tour
If the Lions finish the series as losing 3-0....
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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 862192" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>The concept will survive as long as the players and fans want it to. IMO It will always appeal to a British and Irish players' ego to be a Lion and to be known as the best of the best of the B&I isles and to be part of its history. Lions fans will always be up for a Jolly to SA, Aus and NZ.</p><p></p><p>As for schedule - yes it will have to adapt and looks like mid week games will be cut. Problem with that is that it just does not give enough time to build a team, so it will suffer, so I hope after this series good preparation time and meaningful games can be found in the calendar. I would not be against the next tour being a tour of the Americas - 3 tests v Pumas, Jaguares, a couple of games v USA and Canada. That is doable and winnable in 2021.</p><p></p><p>Tigs - I know what you mean by this tour feeling a little flat, but I think the time difference doesn't help, being so early for the UK. As does the fact that the scale of task facing the Lions being so big, that it feels like a foregone conclusion what the result of the test series will be. But at least this time round the mid week games were competitive, which can't always be said four years ago or in SA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 862192, member: 70552"] The concept will survive as long as the players and fans want it to. IMO It will always appeal to a British and Irish players' ego to be a Lion and to be known as the best of the best of the B&I isles and to be part of its history. Lions fans will always be up for a Jolly to SA, Aus and NZ. As for schedule - yes it will have to adapt and looks like mid week games will be cut. Problem with that is that it just does not give enough time to build a team, so it will suffer, so I hope after this series good preparation time and meaningful games can be found in the calendar. I would not be against the next tour being a tour of the Americas - 3 tests v Pumas, Jaguares, a couple of games v USA and Canada. That is doable and winnable in 2021. Tigs - I know what you mean by this tour feeling a little flat, but I think the time difference doesn't help, being so early for the UK. As does the fact that the scale of task facing the Lions being so big, that it feels like a foregone conclusion what the result of the test series will be. But at least this time round the mid week games were competitive, which can't always be said four years ago or in SA. [/QUOTE]
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