No room for sentiment from ‘brutally honest’ Clive

EGOS were bruised and Gavin Henson was “absolutely devastated”, but Clive Woodward had no room for sentiment in naming the Lions side to play Southland, which by attrition broke the news to half his squad that they were not in the first Test.

“I read out the squad for the Southland game as normal in front of the players. You’ve just got to be brutally honest with everyone,” he said.

“There is no other way of doing it, and the disappointments were already pre-handled. We’d dealt with this period back home before we left and there is still a lot of rugby left.”