Doctor’s warning for players

BRITISH and Irish Lions doctor James Robson believes the shape of rugby players will have to start changing after the most physical Test series he has ever experienced.

Robson has been the Lions doctor on five tours but he has never known anything like the levels of intensity and attrition witnessed during the Lions’ 2-1 series defeat to South Africa.

Five Lions players ended up in hospital after the brutal second Test in Pretoria and Robson fears the balance is wrong between power and skill.