he won again in the feature race at punchestown this afternoon on the favourite, galopin des champs. start a salad of the lions tour to south africa with a serious knee injury. he ruptured a list and explain over the weekend. let us speak to our report that. as the word heartbreaking. he said that's an understatement. now this quite is named next week. he would have been in that and he said that he would have been pushing for a place in the starting 15 as well. yes. i don't think there is any real debate that he would not be on the plane at all. he has such pedigree when it comes notjust that ibm's international rugby in general. he went on the last two toys to australia and also to new zealand. he passed the 100 cap mark for whales in the last six nations but it's not that this experience, it is versatility that really would've got him in that squad. that is because many people when you say the name george north you think about all the fantastic tracy scored. in recent years he has been pulled in and playing more and it's hard to see really where the player is that would replace geo