Mike Catt predicts a Welsh Lions, and a sore head or two, for this summer's tour to South Africa in The Daily Telegraph.
Some of the Welsh lads may have got in a bit of bother last weekend, but once every four years you need to go out and get absolutely smashed. We did it as a group of Lions on the first weekend of the last tour to South Africa and it was the making of us.
From then on we were absolutely together. I believe a similar session will be the making of this year's Lions squad.
"As an American Ryder Cup captain once said: "I've got a real good feeling" about this tour. Make no mistake, these will be the Wales Lions and they will have to play like the defending Grand Slam champions if we are to have a chance. Ian McGeechan may nominally be in charge, but he will be more of a manager and a counsellor to the players. Warren Gatland and Shaun Edwards will run the show.
"They know the importance of players having down-time as a group. After it got a little out of hand in Cardiff over the weekend they didn't start putting everyone on the naughty step, but had a word and moved on. If only the more recent Lions tours had been so mature."
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