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Maro Itoje (C) warms up with team mates Jamie George (L) and Mako Vunipola during the British & Irish Lions training session at the Queenstown Event Centre in 2017. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)[/caption]
Ross went for Cian Healy, Ken Owens and Tadhg Furlong as his front row, with Wyn Jones, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Kyle Sinckler backing them up. There was no place for Saracens and England's Mako Vunipola and Jamie George.
It was a similar rough ride for the Sarries boys in Stuart Barnes' latest Sunday Times column. While he feels Maro Itoje will definitely travel and Owen Farrell is 'a near certainty', Barnes argues that George, Mako and Billy Vunipola and Elliot Daly are all up against it. "So much for the Saracens contingent," he notes.
In is interesting to see how quickly the tide has shifted. Ahead of the 2021 Six Nations, the BBC's Rugby Union Weekly show tasked host Chris Jones and former England stars Ugo Monye and Chris Ashton with selecting a Lions XV for the Test Series.
Their selection had four Saracens starters. None could confidently claim they would start that First Test against the Springboks now, although Maro Itoje is the best shout.
The players highlighted in bold (below) are the ones that made their fans' XV after the Six Nations championship concluded.
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