Given there’s only 114 days until that first Test, it would be one hell of a shift for Shaun Edwards – the Wigan-born defence ... upon by Lions head coach Andy Farrell to serve under the ...

Andy Farrell ... including Farrell Jnr, despite the fact that the fly-half has not played Test rugby since the last World Cup and has endured a difficult, injury-disrupted season with Racing ...

Andy Farrell is set to appoint Simon Easterby ... It is understood that the French Rugby Union are not willing to release Farrell’s former Wigan team-mate Shaun Edwards with the Six Nations ...

Andy Farrell, when quizzed about the prospect of including his son for the tour, responded: "Same as everyone else. He's just coming back from injury. You keep an eye on everything, so yeah." ...