Barretts kicking was the other thing that decided the game

ABs should have had 30+ points easy

A beautiful win for the heroic Lions.

The French referee who actually DID HIS JOB PROPERLY should get the Legion d'Honneur for being the solitary man with a spine this last 50 years to send off an AB in a Test Match, and the first in over 100 years to do so on NZ soil. Can we have some more of this please? God only knows there have been no shortage of qualifying opportunities.

More predictably,  the spineless media didn't do their job properly afterwards, not trying very hard to get NZ representatives to acknowledge that the red-card 'collision' on Watson was insanely dangerous.

He would be a loss, most carries this week, joint second on the tackle count, way more yardage than any other forward with ball in hand last week, he's really been looking at his best.

If he is out, where do you go? POM the obvious choice, shifting Warburton to 7? I'm not sure it's the answer, he's a dog, gives something special to the lineout but he brings relatively nothing in terms of dynamism or carrying ability. Tipuric would certainly add in those areas, and he's looked in good form (bar maybe the last mid week game) but it's the physicality aspect that i think has stopped Gatland promoting him to the Test team. Stander then the obvious choice at 6? While he will undoubtedly be the go to forward carrier should he be in the team, he's not looked in form to me all tour. Again he's a little limited in terms of his all round game for me too. It's a tough one.