As many as a third of the British and Irish Lions squad that tours Australia next year could have learned their trade outside of the Home Nations.
The British and Irish and Australian and South African and New Zealand Lions doesn’t have the same ring to it as the British and Irish Lions, but that’s what it will be when it arrives in Australia next year.
Good on him. His personal story is about taking opportunities when they come up and should be greeted with pride in Australia, mixed in with the obvious disappointment that another one slipped through the net. Of course, as soon as this subject is raised the familiar riposte of the Wallabies and All Blacks “pillaging” the Pacific Islands comes up. But if this principle was actually held dear by those in the north, their ire would be focused on Japan and not Australia or New Zealand.Of Eddie Jones’ starting XV to face the All Blacks on Saturday, eight come from Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji and Samoa.
But where this argument falls woefully short is in the “transactional” bit, because Australia will get nothing in return despite the fact that Sione could cut them to shreds twice in the next eight months. Canterbury and the Crusaders got nothing from their investment in Burke, and copped the flamethrower treatment from fans and former player Wyatt Crockett for signing James O’Connor to plug that gap that he left.
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