DAVID WALLACE gets his chance to stake a claim to follow brother Paul into a British & Irish Lions Test team in Durban tonight.

PAUL O’CONNELL is desperate to find a way to transfer his British & Irish Lions form on the training field to the pitch before the three-Test series with the Springboks starts in two weeks’ time.

IAN MCGEECHAN might well have good cause to thank his Springbok rival Peter de Villiers for leaving out the Cheetahs’ back row man Heinrick Brussow from his 28-man squad to face the British & Irish Lions this month.