The British & Irish Lions is today welcoming Bath Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Leinster Rugby players to its squad ahead of facing Argentina on Friday.<\/p>\n
The British & Irish Lions is today welcoming Bath Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Leinster Rugby players to its squad ahead of facing Argentina on Friday.<\/p>\n
A total of 15 players who were involved in the Premiership Rugby and URC finals on Saturday will join Head Coach Andy Farrell\u2019s group this afternoon.<\/p>\n
They will then participate in their first training session on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Blair Kinghorn <\/b>(Toulouse Rugby\/ Scotland) is the only player who is yet to join the squad as he remains on TOP14 duties in France. <\/p>\n
Jamie George <\/b>(Saracens\/ England) #819 and Asher Opoku-Fordjour <\/b>(Sale Sharks\/ England) <\/b>will train with the Lions today at UCD (Dublin), before returning to their clubs. <\/p>\n
PLAYERS JOINING THE SQUAD TODAY:<\/b><\/p>\n
Ollie Chessum (Leicester Tigers\/England)
\nJack Conan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland) #839
\nTadhg Furlong (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland) #818
\nRonan Kelleher (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJoe McCarthy (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nAndrew Porter (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJames Ryan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nDan Sheehan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nWill Stuart (Bath Rugby\/England)
\nJosh van der Flier (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJamison Gibson-Park (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nHugo Keenan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJames Lowe (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nGarry Ringrose (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nFinn Russell (Bath Rugby\/Scotland) #835<\/p>\n
The British & Irish Lions Squad<\/b><\/p>\n
Forwards:<\/b><\/p>\n
Finlay Bealham (Connacht Rugby\/Ireland)
\nTadhg Beirne (Munster Rugby\/Ireland) #838
\nOllie Chessum (Leicester Tigers\/England)
\nJack Conan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland) #839
\nLuke Cowan-Dickie (Sale Sharks\/England) #851
\nScott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors\/ Scotland)
\nTom Curry (Sale Sharks\/England) #853
\nBen Earl (Saracens\/England)
\nTadhg Furlong (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland) #818
\nEllis Genge (Bristol Bears\/England)
\nMaro Itoje (Saracens\/England) #825 (C)
\nRonan Kelleher (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJoe McCarthy (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJac Morgan (Ospreys\/Wales)
\nHenry Pollock (Northampton Saints\/England)
\nAndrew Porter (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJames Ryan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nDan Sheehan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nPierre Schoeman (Edinburgh Rugby\/Scotland)
\nWill Stuart (Bath Rugby\/England)
\nJosh van der Flier (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)<\/p>\n
Backs:<\/b><\/p>\n
Bundee Aki (Connacht Rugby\/Ireland) #837
\nElliot Daly (Saracens\/England) #822
\nTommy Freeman (Northampton Saints\/England)
\nJamison Gibson-Park (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nMack Hansen (Connacht Rugby\/Ireland)
\nHuw Jones (Glasgow Warriors\/Scotland)
\nHugo Keenan (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nJames Lowe (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nAlex Mitchell (Northampton Saints\/England)
\nFin Smith (Northampton Saints\/England)
\nGarry Ringrose (Leinster Rugby\/Ireland)
\nFinn Russell (Bath Rugby\/Scotland) #835
\nMarcus Smith (Harlequins\/ England) #855
\nSione Tuipulotu (Glasgow Warriors\/Scotland)
\nDuhan van der Merwe (Edinburgh Rugby\/Scotland) #841
\nTomos Williams (Gloucester Rugby\/Wales)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British & Irish Lions is today welcoming Bath Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Leinster Rugby players to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114692499951427949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}