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News Maul: Lions tips, Wales masochism, Zinzan gets nasty

The News Maul brings you snippets of the latest titbits from the world of rugby, before it's brutally pulled down by a forward.

- Scotland and Northampton prop Euan Murray has played down talk of a Lions Test berth after some impressive games recently, saying, "I can't listen to that stuff."  Whether he says this because the tour is still eight months away and, unlike journalists, he has some sense or he is actually deaf is unclear. 

Rumours about the cloning of Lee Byrne and Shane Williams for the backs are still being denied by the tour management

- Warren Gatland has revealed a cruel and unusual streak by scheduling more games for his Wales team against Southern Hemisphere teams.  Gatland insists it is to increase the competition for his team in order to prepare them fully for an brutal assault on the World Cup in 2011.  We think he's done it because he get some sick pleasure from inflicting suffering on his players, the pervert.

- Not that any of this will worry Zinzan Brooke, who has used his BBCi column to tell the Northern Hemisphere they are all shit and have about as much chance in the next World Cup as Ugo Monye getting a membership at Augusta National.  "The gap is just too wide" said the former drop-kicking show off, "and you have to remember that Australia, New Zealand and South Africa came to the UK off the back of a long hard season. They'll be better prepared come the 2011 World Cup." 

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News Maul: Lions tips, Wales masochism, Zinzan gets nasty

The News Maul brings you snippets of the latest titbits from the world of rugby, before it's brutally pulled down by a forward.

- Scotland and Northampton prop Euan Murray has played down talk of a Lions Test berth after some impressive games recently, saying, "I can't listen to that stuff."  Whether he says this because the tour is still eight months away and, unlike journalists, he has some sense or he is actually deaf is unclear. 

Rumours about the cloning of Lee Byrne and Shane Williams for the backs are still being denied by the tour management

- Warren Gatland has revealed a cruel and unusual streak by scheduling more games for his Wales team against Southern Hemisphere teams.  Gatland insists it is to increase the competition for his team in order to prepare them fully for an brutal assault on the World Cup in 2011.  We think he's done it because he get some sick pleasure from inflicting suffering on his players, the pervert.

- Not that any of this will worry Zinzan Brooke, who has used his BBCi column to tell the Northern Hemisphere they are all shit and have about as much chance in the next World Cup as Ugo Monye getting a membership at Augusta National.  "The gap is just too wide" said the former drop-kicking show off, "and you have to remember that Australia, New Zealand and South Africa came to the UK off the back of a long hard season. They'll be better prepared come the 2011 World Cup."