Clear game plan comes up trumps in contrast to England who hauled off Marcus Smith

The role of the inside centre is letting the No 10 flourish is one of the game’s key combinations

Ross O’Carroll Kelly: It’s the night before Sixmas – and Ross is feeling ignored

Almost half of Eddie Jones’ 37-man training squad have never appeared in Six Nations

Welsh outhalf believes he and his Ireland counterpart have many similarities

A total of 39 players have been named with Scotland opening campaign against England at home

Memorable victory over New Zealand was one of the best-ever Ireland displays

Scottish outhalf provides the telling pass for four of the five tries in bonus-point win

Winger Makazole Mapimpi scores two tries while Stuart Hogg grabs double for Scots

Townsend opts to make six changes to side that started the 10-try victory against Tonga

Ireland secondrow suggests coach didn’t pick on form and questions gameplan

‘It was a good lesson for me in terms of not planning too far ahead’

Few of the legacies of the tour to South Africa will have been the result of the actual rugby played

Penalty call against Lawes harsh but butchered try-scoring chances lost it

In practically every metric bar the final score the visitors were the superior team

Head coach picks out a few calls that went against his side in third Test

John O’Sullivan hands out the marks after the series decider

Veteran outhalf reprises his heroics from 12 years ago with late penalty winner

Warren Gatland's side must find a way to get round the South Africa defence

Attacking coach admits more creativity is required after return of just one try so far

British and Irish Lions head coach explains the six changes made for series decider

Changes in back three and backrow look to be on the cards after defeat in second Test

South Africa’s director of rugby highlights incidents from first Test on Twitter

Alun Wyn Jones calls for improvement as he expects a stronger South African side

Of the 41 players now in the squad only Finn Russell has been ruled out with injury

Backs coach Gregor Townsend praises Ireland centre ahead of Stormers clash

There are four Irish players in the starting team, with Robbie Henshaw at inside centre

Finishing the campaign with five successive wins tilts ledger towards positive

‘We’ve just got to go with the flow and react to whatever is thrown at us’

Tadhg Beirne, Jamie George and Anthony Watson each score two tries in victory

Adam Beard comes into the side and Bundee Aki on to the bench

Warren Gatland’s tourists bring up the half century against Sigma Lions at Ellis Park

Scotland’s ‘maverick’ outhalf will make his Lions debut on Saturday

Iain Henderson, Tadhg Beirne and Jack Conan will all start in pack for Saturday’s match

Eight Irish players received Pfizer jab during administration day for South Africa tour

Party to tour South Africa consists of 16 backs and 21 forwards

Kicking coach says decision ‘very, very tough’ on Ireland outhalf

John O'Sullivan: Recent history shows that squad will number in the 40s by the end

It’s nearly decision time for the Lions coach - who should make the South Africa tour?

The arrogance that has been wafting over the French set-up needed to be cleared