Robin McBryde urges Wales to up their game

Wales assistant coach Robin McBryde has issued a clear message to his side’s British and Irish Lions hopefuls — on the day Lions head coach Warren Gatland paid them a flying visit.

Gatland will announce the Lions squad for this summer’s New Zealand tour in seven weeks’ time, with a number of Wales players expected to make the 10-match trip.

He was an observer at Wales’ training base in the Vale of Glamorgan yesterday as part of intensive pre-selection work, but McBryde warned his players would need to “raise their game” to make the tour having suffered successive RBS 6 Nations defeats for the first time since 2010.