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Published 11:02 18 Jun 2017 BST
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Jeremy Guscott knows a thing or two about the Lions given that he has been on three tours as a player.
The 51-year-old recently wrote a piece for the BBC about the upcoming test match against New Zealand.
In it he says,
"I don't think the Lions' tour captain Sam Warburton will start, he may be on the bench. That's because Sean O'Brien had such a big game and it would be a strange selection if he didn't continue at open-side flanker."After the 32-10 victory over the Maori All Blacks, New Zealand media obviously paid great attention. One such newspaper is the reputable New Zealand Herald and they labelled O'Brien as the star performer in the win. Their writer, Peter White, had high praise for O'Brien and was in the same frame of mind as Guscott in his review of the players.
"Tour captain Sam Warburton is still not at his very best so Ireland's fearless openside flanker has taken every opportunity to show he deserves the No 7 jersey against the All Blacks. Against the Crusaders and the Maori All Blacks he was superb on defence with a similar approach to knocking over the ball carrier to Sam Cane. In a word, ruthless.
"The Lions could do worse than start the fiery O'Brien next week in Auckland and have Warburton on the bench."
Former England international Ben Kay also chimed in on who he thinks should start.
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