Try, try and try again: Lions need not worry too much about aesthetics | Gerard Meagher

A lineout drive or a dazzling, length of the field score are still both worth five points and the rolling maul ought to be among the Lions’ most potent weaponsA trivia question: who was the last team to beat New Zealand at Eden Park, the stadium that hosts two of the three Tests against the British & Irish Lions? The answer is, of course, France in 1994 in a match best remembered for Jean-Luc Sadourny’s “try from the end of the world”.Contrast that unforgettable moment in rugby union history with Dan Cole’s quip last week that, “the quickest line to the tryline is a straight line”. Related…