‘Four years ago I was 24 and had played very few games of rugby’
ALMOST FOURS AGO to the day, Warren Gatland took a seat in Auckland’s QBE Stadium and explained to a room full of journalists, microphones and cameras why he was handing a Lions Test start to a relatively inexperienced 24-year-old prop from Wexford. “He’s still pretty green but he’s got something about him,” Gatland explained, clearly…