Danny Grewcock." The tone for the tour and the opprobrium heaped on the Lions by the New Zealand press was set the day they landed. "One of the Sunday tabloids had a cut-out picture of Clive to put on dartboards and fill with 74 pricks - one for every member of the squad."
As for the attitude of the players, he said: "I noticed I had very quickly become fair game for the players' banter." After addressing the squad for the first international and making a joke about Grewcock and Thompson, "Paul O'Connell tried to debag me, and my BlackBerry fell to the floor. By the time I had got my trousers up, the BlackBerry was gone and for the next half-hour I was convinced a journalist had picked it up."
And before the second international? "I did my talk to the team and although some of the coaches and players came up afterwards and said it was the right message at the right time, I could tell some of them felt it was inappropriate coming from someone who had not played rugby at their level."
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