He may not have been talking about the selection of a British and Irish Lions Test team, but poet John Lydgate neatly encapsulated the problem with his belief that “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”. Lions head coach Warren Gatland is not known for his love of poetry, but he would heartily concur with those words and Conor Murray is the latest to suffer at his selectorial hands to the consternation of…

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