Blair Kinghorn arrives to complete Lions set as Queensland Reds await

Blair Kinghorn at Lions training in Perth. Picture: Billy Stickland/Inpho

To say the last couple of days have been a blur for Blair Kinghorn is putting it mildly. As recently as the early hours of Sunday he was celebrating Toulouse’s Top 14 title success in Paris and doing interviews clad only in a pair of budgie smugglers. Now here he is wearing a British & Irish Lions tracksuit, squinting into the Australian sunshine and trying his hardest to focus on the next onrushing target.

The Scotland full-back, the last originally chosen squad member to arrive, will not be involved in the Lions’ game against the Reds on Wednesday but is earmarked to feature against the Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday. All being well a potential slot in the Test XV could follow but even for a class act like Kinghorn it is going to take a lot of frantic paddling below the surface to get up to speed.