David Campese labels Owen Farrell’s Lions call-up ‘a weak pick by daddy’

For the life of me, I cannot fathom why Andy Farrell would call up an ageing fly-half-cum-centre to replace a classy back-three player,”
David Campese labels Owen Farrell’s Lions call-up ‘a weak pick by daddy’

STIRRING: Former Wallaby David Campese doesn't rate the Lions' decision to call up Owen Farrell

WALLABY legend David Campese is stirring it up again down under, labelling the decisions by the British and Irish Lions to call up Owen Farrell as “a weak pick by daddy”.

Less than 24 hours after head coach Andy Farrell urged supporters to cut out the “nonsense” negativity around his son’s call-up, Campese claimed that Owen Farrell’s selection is “weak”, that it could disrupt the Lions camp, and that the 'ageing' fly-half “left Paris with his tail between his legs”.

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