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Published 11:44 9 May 2017 BST
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Almost as many members of the backroom staff as players. If you want to know where the Scots crew is, Greig Laidlaw, Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour are planted in the back row.
Former England international Kyran Bracken was not the only one to notice the national divides in the room.
https://twitter.com/KyranBracken/status/861660364794155009
Bracken is not wrong. Our crude graphics show how players from each our the four 'home' nations were grouped together.
However, knowing how Gatland and his staff handled the matter of four countries, one team last time out, there is a simple explanation for the divide.
Players from each country were directed towards the seats before, when the meeting commenced, being told that this would be the final time they would be looked upon as Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English.
Following Warburton's speech, the squad were told they were now one unit and that pulling together for one cause was the goal, and the mind-set that would see the Lions through in New Zealand.
Once that wrapped, and the photo-call was announced, the players were immediately mingling.
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Conor Murray, Jack McGrath and Dan Biggar (©INPHO/Dan Sheridan)[/caption]
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