Lions: the key issues for Warren Gatland and his squad in New Zealand

The arguments will always rumble on about selection, but Gatland has the experience to give the tourists the best possible chance against the All Blacks come June and JulyThe single most important decision the British & Irish Lions had to make was settled back on 7 September, when they chose Warren Gatland as their head coach. It is, Graham Henry once said, the “toughest job in world rugby”. The Lions coach does not only have to tackle the preposterously difficult job of trying to knit together a functioning Test team in the space of a couple of months and steering them through the toughes…