Stephen Jones assesses the Lions' chances against the Springboks in The Sunday Times.
"What strengths have the Lions to bank on? First, the excellence of their coaching team, and its unity. McGeechan’s mixture of merry and terse men are clearly working an abrupt magic on this squad, despite the abysmally short time frame. As I have said before, if there is a Test victory out there, then the coaching team will find it, they are more wily and experienced than the home coaching squad.
The Lions also have a very fine scrum, whether or not it is Andrew Sheridan or Gethin Jenkins who plays at loose-head. If we can edge forward those few inches at scrum time and if the referee is not one of those preposterous fools who believes he must even up the scrum rather than allow advantage to the stronger unit, then the Lions could take away some of the legs of the Springboks."
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