Tony finally has a run in NZ

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Great afternoon at Hobbiton Movie Set

More photos from today. 

Great morning at the Te Puia Geothermal Park and Maori Cultural Experience. 

Amazing height of spray from the Geyser. 

Great mud pools.

Great welcome from the Maoris 

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Good win for the Lions over the New Zealand Maori this morning.  Three days from now we will be flight bound to New Zealand via Hong Kong and well on our way towards the first test – exciting!!

Good win for the Lions this morning, two wins out of three. 

Only two more matches before we arrive in New Zealand for the first test – getting excited!

Game three this morning, against the unbeaten Crusaders. Lions narrowly won the first game and lost the second. Today will be a massive test but the Lion’s have a very strong side for this match.

Two weeks today is the first test match – looking forward to being there! 

Minutes away from the opening match of the tour, against the Provincial Barbarians.  

Lions have a strong team so hoping for a good start.

Just over two weeks before we travel to New Zealand, getting excited!

Squad announced – Warburton Captain, 16 English, 12 Welsh, 11 Irish and 2 Scottish players – Getting exciting now. 

Full squad

Forwards: Rory Best (Ireland), Dan Cole (England), Taulupe Faletau (Wales), Tadhg Furlong (Ireland), Jamie George (England), Iain Henderson (Ireland), Maro Itoje (England), Alun Wyn Jones (Wales), George Kruis (England), Courtney Lawes (England), Joe Marler (England), Jack McGrath (Ireland), Ross Moriarty (Wales), Sean O’Brien (Ireland), Peter O’Mahony (Ireland), Ken Owens (Wales), Kyle Sinckler (England), CJ Stander (Ireland), Justin Tipuric (Wales), Billy Vunipola (England), Mako Vunipola (England), Sam Warburton (Wales)

Backs: Dan Biggar (Wales), Elliot Daly (England), Jonathan Davies (Wales), Owen Farrell (England), Leigh Halfpenny (Wales), Robbie Henshaw (Ireland), Stuart Hogg (Scotland), Jonathan Joseph (England), Conor Murray (Ireland), George North (Wales), Jack Nowell (England), Jared Payne (Ireland), Jonathan Sexton (Ireland), Tommy Seymour (Scotland), Ben Te’o (England), Anthony Watson (England), Rhys Webb (Wales), Liam Williams (Wales), Ben Youngs (England)
Less than 9 weeks until we travel to New Zealand.

Really excited, we are all going to New Zealand courtesy of Jacqui Tours!