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Article: NO MORE EXCUSES; Edwards lays it on the line for limp Lions.(Sport)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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Byline: PETER JACKSON reports from Johannesburg
THE LIONS will emerge into the towering temple of Springbok rugby tonight with a three-word dictat ringing in their ears: 'No more excuses.' After days of their management making public allowances for last weekend's shoddy start, defence coach Shaun Edwards acknowledges that the time has come for the British and Irish to deliver at Ellis Park against their native namesakes in the first all-Lions fixture of its kind.
The fact that only last week their opponents threatened to go on strike makes it all the more imperative that the tourists show they mean business.
Excuses about rustiness and ...