Brian O'Driscoll's list of fans grows with Peter Jackson adding his name to the list in the Daily Mail.
"Rarely have the Lions had to choose between two more impeccably qualified contenders. Each meets the basic criterion of being sure of his Test place, something which the Lions ignored to their cost for two New Zealand tours, each one resulting in a 4-0 Blackwash.
"...As head coach, Ian McGeechan will have the final say. Significantly, he was a central figure 12 years ago when the Lions management, faced with a choice between Johnson and the equally outstanding Ieuan Evans, decided they wanted to send a ‘big, ugly’ lock to knock on the Springbok door rather than their comparatively diminutive Welsh merlin on the wing."
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