Lions team to play Waratahs

15. Leigh Halfpenny, 14. Sean Maitland, 13. Jonathan Davies, 12. Jamie Roberts, 11. Simon Zebo, 10. Jonathan Sexton, 9. Mike Phillips, 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Tom Youngs, 3. Adam Jones, 4. Alun Wyn Jones, 5. Paul O’Connell, 6. Tom Croft, 7. Sam Warburton (captain), 8. Jamie Heaslip.

Replacements: 16. Richard Hibbard, 17. Alex Corbisiero, 18. Dan Cole, 19. Geoff Parling, 20. Dan Lydiate, 21. Ben Youngs, 22. Owen Farrell, 23. Rob Kearney.

Horne and Dennis released to play for Waratahs as well as Foley from Aussie 7's. Sio and Kimlin released to play for Brumbies.

ARU making an effort to have remaining matches competitive.

i didnt realise the team had been named, got a pretty good idea who the waratahs will be playing but this match should be all right.
with folau not being released, thats a very strong indication that folau will be playing in the first test. IMO it would have been smarter to send folau out for the waratahs, the more gametime he gets under his belt the better.

not bad options for selections testrugby wise, ive got 17 transfers left and need to fill in the last spot with whoever the waratahs will be playing lock, hopefully ts will skelton.

 Budget crunch will surely come with the Tests - a little surprised that they don't have the Australian values yet but you would think that they would be similar to the Super Rugby values which are not cheap.