Mike Phillips believes Tomos Williams and Kieran Hardy would claim scrum-half places if a Lions squad were picked now.
There would be no shortage of competition, of course, with Ireland boasting Jamison Gibson-Park and Conor Murray, Scotland having Ali Price as their main scrum-worker and England possessing Harry Randall and Ben Youngs. But Phillips, who played in 99 Tests over his international career, reckons the Welsh pair would nail down two of the spots. The Wales and Lions scrum-half great dubbed Hardy as "outstanding" and appears to reckon Williams is even better as Wales' first choice.
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