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The men's Six Nations is done and dusted for different twelvemonth but which players enactment their manus up for British and Irish Lions selection?
The Lions circuit Australia this summertime and performances during the Six Nations are apt to dictate selection, with caput manager Andy Farrell naming his squad connected Thursday, 8 May.
BBC pundits John Barclay and Sam Warburton person named their last Lions XVs but however antithetic are their choices to erstwhile they picked their sides aft the opening circular of the tournament?
Former Scotland skipper Barclay has selected a squad including 5 Englishmen, 5 Scotsmen, 4 Irishmen and 1 Welshman.
In total, helium has made 7 alterations from the broadside helium picked aft circular one.
England's dominance successful the set-piece has resulted successful props Ellis Genge and Will Stuart replacing Ireland's Andrew Porter and Scotland's Zander Fagerson, the second missing retired contempt making the fourth-highest fig of carries (57) successful the tournament.
"The main alteration is Stuart and Genge," said Barclay.
"[England produced] The champion scrummaging show passim the championship. Stuart has specified a debased punishment number and gets done truthful overmuch bully work, and it's the aforesaid for Genge - the nuts and bolts of his crippled are superb."
The motor country successful the 2nd enactment remains the same, with Barclay suggesting England skipper Maro Itoje is simply a Lions skipper successful waiting.
In the backmost row, Barclay has named Jac Morgan successful his broadside contempt Wales' tally of 17 consecutive defeats and a 2nd Wooden Spoon successful arsenic galore years.
Morgan made a tourney precocious 88 tackles, portion lone Itoje arrived astatine much rucks connected some sides of the ball.
The Welshman replaces Scotland's Rory Darge, who made much cleanouts than immoderate different subordinate (45) but Barclay says Morgan could scope greater heights successful the Lions set-up.
"I had Rory Darge successful the backmost enactment but I deliberation helium has fallen disconnected slightly. Jac Morgan has played successful a Wales broadside that is struggling, but helium has stood out. Imagine him with the prime of [Lions] players and that coaching operation astir him."
In the backs, Barclay selected 5 Scotsmen, including Finn Russell astatine fly-half.
Centre Sione Tuipulotu was ruled retired of the tourney with a pectoral wounded but Barclay has opted for his countryman, who is expected to instrumentality earlier the extremity of the season, portion England's Ollie Lawrence has dropped retired of contention aft suffering an unfortunate Achilles rupture.
Barclay has picked Tuipulotu astatine wrong centre, extracurricular Russell and wrong Huw Jones successful an all-Scottish midfield, with Blair Kinghorn selected astatine full-back and Duhan van der Merwe connected the wing.
Warburton, who captained the Lions to a bid triumph connected their past sojourn to Australia successful 2013, has selected a squad of 5 Englishmen, 5 Irishmen, 3 Scots and 2 Welshmen.
In total, Warburton has made 8 changes successful unit from his squad of circular one, with Fagerson again missing retired successful the beforehand row, replaced by Tadhg Furlong, who played his archetypal Test since July successful Ireland's last time triumph implicit Italy.
Furlong missed Ireland's archetypal 4 games of the contention with a hamstring and calf contented but erstwhile Wales skipper Warburton says the prop has capable "credit successful the bank".
"There is simply a batch of rugby to beryllium played betwixt present and the tour," said Warburton.
"If Furlong gets 5 games for Leinster and 3 games connected the tour, helium rolls into a Test bid with 8 games nether his belt. If helium gets fit, I deliberation his ceiling is higher than immoderate different tighthead."
England's George Martin besides replaces seasoned Irishman Tadhg Beirne successful the 2nd row, alongside Warburton's prime for skipper Itoje, contempt the Leicester Tigers guardant missing England's past 3 matches with a genu issue.
"I've gone with Martin due to the fact that I deliberation physicality wins up beforehand and helium brings that grunt," said Warburton.
"He got injured against France [in circular two] but I deliberation helium is the champion enforcer connected the location isles."
Like Barclay, Warburton has besides chosen a half-back pairing of Ireland's Jamison Gibson-Park and Scotland's Russell, who had immoderate bully touches with shot successful manus but crucially missed what would person been a match-winning conversion against England.
Warburton says a returning Tuipulotu in midfield could clasp the cardinal to Russell's occurrence Down Under.
"Russell has been exceptional for Bath and they person been astir apt been the astir carnal squad successful the Premiership this season," helium added.
"It volition beryllium his 3rd circuit arsenic good truthful he's vastly experienced to clasp the reins astatine 10.
"If you enactment him extracurricular Gibson-Park and with Tuipulotu connected his shoulder, playing down that pack, it volition heighten him adjacent more.
"He is the astir people talented 10 we person and helium could spell to different level again."
Tommy Freeman is chosen connected the helping aft his awesome tourney successful which helium became the archetypal England subordinate to people a effort successful each crippled of a Six Nations campaign, portion Wales full-back Blair Murray is Warburton's "curveball" selection.
The New Zealand-born Welshman, is picked up of namesake Kinghorn, who made a tournament-leading 9 enactment breaks alongside 575m gained and 13 offloads.
"Before the tournament, I was asked who the champion newcomer would beryllium and I said Blair Murray," said Warburton.
"He didn't get picked successful the archetypal crippled truthful that didn't spell excessively good but helium comes from a large pedigree with the Canterbury Crusaders.
"He is an exceptional athlete, has a counter-attack ability, is bully nether the precocious shot and brave successful defence.
"It's the flip of a coin betwixt him and Blair Kinghorn, who has been fantabulous arsenic good and got amended arsenic the tourney wore on."
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