Can Clive turn it around?

THERE ARE occasions in sport when you don’t always get what you deserve. So inept was the performance from the Lions on Saturday, that this wasn’t one of them.

When the forecasters confirmed on Friday that this test would be played in driving rain, one felt that the advantage had shifted to the tourists. In the end, all it did was save their blushes. In better conditions New Zealand would have passed the 40-point mark.

After all the hype and excitement in the build up to this series over the last year, the outcome from a Lions perspective could not have been worse. The task now seems nigh impossible. The loss of captain Brian O’Driscoll is a huge blow and the circumstances surrounding the injury have not reflected well on New Zealand captain Tana Umaga.