If there was a Lions tour this year not only would Jamison Gibson-Park and James Lowe be certainties for the squad but there’s every likelihood they’d be Test starters too.
With increased exposure to Test rugby, each has taken their form onto a new level this season, demonstrating that even in their mid-20s gems can be plucked from the New Zealand system and polished into top class international players.
Compared to Lowe and Bundee Aki, Gibson-Park is arguably the least obvious of the trio to have made such spectacular progress. Pitching up in Leinster at 24 six years ago he’d only started seven Super Rugby matches. Only four years ago his selection for Leinster’s Euro semi-final against the Scarlets was seriously questioned by at least one former player.
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- May 11, 2022
