British & Irish Lions 2017 New Zealand tour tickets

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The British and Irish Lions rugby union team is selected from players eligible for any of the Home Rugby Unions, as well as the national sides of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. British and Irish Lions is coached by Warren Gatland. The British & Irish Lions will compete in a not-to-be-missed tour to New Zealand beginning in June 2017. All matches will be played in New Zealand. Great rugby tickets for the tour are already for sale securely online from the LiveRugbyTickets.co.uk rugby union tickets marketplace.

Excitement is building up as UK rugby supporters anticipate the announcement of the 2017 British & Irish Lions squad. Once every four years the chosen coaching staff gathers together to choose their side from player options from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to put together a 37-man squad assembled to take on one of the SANZAR powerhouses. This time the staff will be making choices for the British & Lions upcoming tour to New Zealand. After the squad names have been revealed comes the unveiling of the new chosen one and tour captain. Sam Warburton was selected as the man to lead the Lions to Australia 2013 and his name will surely be in the hat for New Zealand.

Anthony Watson and Jack Nowell are out injured for England's upcoming Autumn International series. England National Team manager Eddie Jones has been impressed with 29-year-old Semesa Rokoduguni this season and is considering adding him to his side. England’s Fijian-born flyer, Semesa Rokoduguni has one England cap to his name to date, won back in 2014 against the All Blacks. Rokoduguni was a key player in deciding a hard-fought encounter at Sandy Park in Bath’s favor with a late try that defeated Exeter Chiefs. The Blue, Black and White were trailing their hosts 10-6 but were still pushing hard for another score to win. A succession of scrums on the Chiefs line turned the pressure on in Bath’s favor. England fly-half George Ford fired a pass picked up by Rokoduguni who then easily brushed off Gareth Steenson and scored the game’s winning try.

A performance like that may persuade Jones to give him a starting berth on the England team this fall for the Autumn Internationals and keep British & Irish Lions Head Coach Warren Gatland interested as he prepares for the 2017 Tour to New Zealand. Mike Haley celebrated his England call-up with a top performance for Sale as they produced five tries to defeat a winless Bristol. Aviva Premiership games on Sunday saw Wasps close the gap to Saracens on top of the table with a bonus-point win over Newcastle Falcons. Warren Gatland will continue as British & Irish Lions head coach.

Looking ahead to the issues of a global rugby season with the Autumn Internationals, Six Nations, British & Irish Lions New Zealand Tour and 2019 Rugby World Cup there is concern that the current workload is unsustainable. Premiership Rugby’s chief exec, Mark McCafferty, has criticized the “punishing” itinerary that the British and Irish Lions are involved in next summer in New Zealand. The Lions will play 7 matches and three Tests in six weeks, beginning on June 3, beginning seven days after the finals of the Aviva Premiership and Guinness Pro12.

“Personally I don’t know why that was signed up to,” said McCafferty referring to the 2017 British & Irish Lions New Zealand Tour. To play 10 games over that period of time, I think, is a lot. It’s a punishing schedule. For sure there’s going to be a difficulty for players coming back off that tour into the Premiership for 2017-18. The stats will show you that countries that have had a very large contingent of Lions players, and Wales were the most recent tend to suffer more injuries in that following season. It does have an impact. I think the Lions is in the mix as we move towards the season structure post-2019. You can’t do anything about this season. That’s been set some time ago. But 2021, the agreement is up and that will presumably involve the schedule for 2021.”

“Just to be very clear, the Lions is a fabulous brand and an important part of the economics for the southern hemisphere and it should carry on. But it’s one of the elements that’s not sustainable to think that players can go through a club and international season and be involved in that scale of a tour and then be in shape for the following season as well. We’ve got to sit down and have a look at that. It will not be until we’ve sat through that and understood how crucial it is to the financial picture in the south and what might be done.”

“Do you need to play that amount of midweek games? All the economics are driven off the back of three Tests in the main. I know there are views and counter-views but it would helpful to sit down. People behind the Lions need to listen to some of other aspects to it. No-one’s operating in a vacuum.” Rob Howley took over as Wales head coach for the season.

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