RUCK N ROLL
GAVIN RICH: Lions need to regain their self-belief and start roaring again
During a stoppage in play in the Lions’ clash with the Hurricanes in Wellington, the catchy tune and lyrics of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing were played over the stadium’s sound system and transmitted to TV sets across the globe. This was apt and ironic for the Lions because at the time they were down 14-0 and half-time was approaching. The Lions had been pretty much shut out of the game at that point and needed something. Clearly, they did have some belief, for within a few minutes of that moment their scrumhalf, Nic Groom, crossed for a try. It brought the Lions back into the game as they went to the break with just a seven-point deficit. Being so close after having been dominated for most of the half would have flooded some more belief into the players’ systems at half-time. Hope, though, can be tantalising, and the Hurricanes extinguished it in the third quarter. The million-dollar question is: do the Lions have the belief that they can go a step further than previous years and...
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