Everyone likes to pick a team, from pundits who run through their selections on TV programmes to punters in well-nigh every pub in the land and especially the man who memorably wrote a letter to the South Wales Evening Post newspaper back in the day with six Neath RFC players in his World XV.
It’s all a bit of fun.
Warren Gatland is entitled to join in, as well — of course he is — and he did so with his selection in The Telegraph of a 23-man Lions squad in the hypothetical event of the best of British and Irish rugby playing a Test next weekend.
