What is the story with maitland being picked as a replacement? Politics above form is the obvious answer I thing. If we want to win you need to pick your best match day squad not one based on keeping everyone happy or one based on giving your own squad that you are going back to after the tour big game experience.

Soooo... When is Gatland marrying Lydiate?

Maitland ???????

O'Brian should at least be subbing

Cian healy and bowe would be starting

This is a joke

Is tualagi fit.. Even if he is I'd still reckon Davies and bod

@liam Warrener : Ian Evans has been bloody awful this tour, the worst lock out of the 5 of them

Australia have gone for a set piece forward pack not an expansive one therefore we need scrummagers and ball carriers to wear them down, with expansive and big ball carriers in the forwards to come of the Bench, hench youngs and vunipola, Murray over b.youngs as the Aussies will not remove genia so to bring in Phillips mark 2 at around 65 mins will cause genia problems, not a large Aussie team so the lions need power in the backs and tuillagi and bod have been the best centre partnership on tour thus far. Halfpenny will be kicking so sextons attacking threat will be more useful than Farrell but hopefully we can bring him on to play a more defensive and territorial game with the match won at about the 70 min mark

Corbs, hibbard, jones, wyn jones, o'connell, croft, warburton, o'brien

Phillips, sexton, north, tuillagi, bod, bowe (allegedly fit) halfpenny

Bench
Vunipola, youngs, cole, Gray, heaslip, Murray, Farrell, kearney