Dan Sheehan has no issue with Henry Pollock's Aussie riling comments

Pollock, the youngest player in the Lions squad, raised the temperature of the tour by getting Aussie hackles up by saying that a 3-0 series clean sweep was “on the table”

Dan Sheehan is expected to start at hooker for the Lions' first Test against Australia. Pic: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

Dan Sheehan has no problem with Henry Pollock firing up the Wallabies by stating the aim of the British & Irish Lions is to sweep the Test series starting this weekend. He just knows the tourists now must go out there and do it for three Saturdays in a row.

The Ireland hooker is expected to be named by head coach Andy Farrell on Thursday morning in the starting front row for the first Test against Australia at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium. One of the safer bets for selection given his barnstorming comeback from knee reconstruction following last summer’s Test series with the Springboks in South Africa and his electric start to the 2025 tour when he scored the first try on Australian soil in the first minute against Western Force, the 26-year-old was nevertheless as hungry for recognition as the next man in Farrell’s touring party.