Selection headache for Farrell ahead of 'biggest game of our lives'

With doubts over Mack Hansen and Joe McCarthy availability due to injuries Lions head coach Andy Farrell has some selection challenges ahead of their second Test.
SELECTION HEADACHE: Lions head coach Andy Farrell has a decision to make whether to stay with last weeks winning side or make a few changes. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom Maher

SELECTION HEADACHE: Lions head coach Andy Farrell has a decision to make whether to stay with last weeks winning side or make a few changes. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom Maher

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The mantra which usually applies in terms of selecting a team to back up a victory is “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Yet listening to British & Irish Lions head coach Andy Farrell in the wake of this midweek victory at Marvel Stadium gives one the sense that the golden rule of not changing a winning side is by no means hard and fast.

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