Lions feeling Blue as chaos abounds and discipline fails

BLUES 22 - BRITISH & IRISH LIONS 16: From “chaos” to “discipline”, the pre- and post-match buzzwords in the Lions camp were as diametrically opposed as what the tourists promised and actually delivered at Eden Park yesterday.

Carved apart by the sort of broken-field play from the Blues, New Zealand’s fifth-ranked of five Super Rugby franchises, to which the Lions presently can only aspire, the best of the bunch are looming large for Warren Gatland’s squad this Saturday.

With the third game of this 10-match tour bringing unbeaten table-toppers the Crusaders into the equation, the Lions’ supporters who have followed them south to Christchurch will be hoping the latest of Gatland’s selections can start to make good on his assertion that the gameplan is starting to take a more meaningful shape.