Summary
IF NATHAN Hines scores for the British and Irish Lions against Western Province this afternoon, he will break a duck which now stretches back over eight years. It was on 8 June, 2001, in the opening match of the tour to Australia, that Simon Taylor scored for the tourists - the last time to date that a Scot has done so.
The rest of that tour, and all of the 2005 one to New Zealand, went by without another Scot getting on the scoresheet. Including the drawn warm-up game against Argentina four years ago and the quartet of matches played to date on the present tour to South Africa, 24 matches have gone by since Taylor's try.See the full content of this document
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Hines Can Bring End to Eight-Year Wait for Scots Scorer
A total of 862 points has been scored in those games, each and every one by either a Welshman, an Irishman or an Englishman. If we includ...
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