The final midweek game of this Lions tour was always destined to be something of a mixed bag. Towards the end there were a clutch of unlikely red‑shirted players out on the field and the outcome was still in doubt up until the closing moments. Two tries for Jamie Osborne eventually squeezed his side home but very little about the evening turned out to be comfortable.
In terms of pointers towards second-Test selection the picture was also fairly blurred. Blair Kinghorn, back from a strained knee, showed some excellent touches but also had a couple of passes intercepted. Jamie George’s lineout throwing was consistently good while Owen Farrell’s no‑nonsense instructions to his team were audible from the stands 50 metres away.
