Well, this is no easy task, with four long years to go and a generation or two of players to choose from.
As a sage counterpart from another newspaper pointed out, the temptation when choosing a British & Irish Lions Test team for the next tour, scheduled for New Zealand in 2029, is to think of youngsters like the 20-year-old Bath hooker Kepu Tuipulotu.
But the side who have just finished their Australia tour with an average age hovering around the 30 mark show we need to be thinking more in the 24 to 32 age bracket – with just a few fun exceptions!
One thing I would like this team to do is excite the spectators with the capacity to produce the unexpected, but of course they will also need the muscle and savvy to stand up to the always formidable All Blacks in their backyard.
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Backs: Blair Kinghorn; Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Tommy Freeman, Macs Page, Louis Rees-Zammit; Sam Prendergast, Ben White
I reckon Tommy Freeman will have completed his widely-predicted transition to centre by 2029, if not much sooner.
And if he and our first exception to the no-youngsters rule – Macs Page of the Scarlets and Wales – may be considered too alike as No 13s, don’t worry as they will be bashing the ball up.
Blair Kinghorn and speed merchants Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Louis Rees-Zammit will do the rest on the ground, with just enough nous in the aerial contests to deal with the up-and-unders if they are still in vogue.
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In the half-backs, I am banking on Ireland’s Sam Prendergast to fill out and mature after being unimpressed with his performance for Leinster in their Champions Cup semi-final this year, while a 31-year-old Ben White should be on the top of his game, a la Jamison Gibson-Park right now.
Forwards: Ellis Genge, Dan Sheehan (c), Afolabi Fasogbon, Maro Itoje, Joe McCarthy, Tom Curry, Jack Willis, Henry Pollock
Okay, this is a fairly lightweight eight, and among a few unlikely circumstances it needs the game-breaking Henry Pollock (our second youngster) to fill out a bit at No 8, and Jack Willis to find a way to qualify for the Lions, while our third and final comparative rookie is tighthead prop Afolabi Fasogbon, who has four years to round out his exciting talents of physical stature, scrummaging force and close-quarters heft.
The rest of the pack has a more familiar look with Ellis Genge (too old at 34? no way), tour captain Dan Sheehan, cabinet-minister-on-secondment Maro Itoje, Joe McCarthy and Tom Curry back for another tour of duty, even if Curry may by then be held together by bionics and 3D-printing.
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