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Does Farrell add ballast to his back row by including Ollie Chessum, more usually a second row, to counter their direct threat?

Tadhg Beirne captains the Lions from the second row.

Back then, you had a set of mostly unchanging and hardcore forwards playing the big games - a front-row of Mako Vunipola, Jamie George and Tadhg Furlong, a mix of Alun Wyn Jones, George Kruis and Maro Itoje in the second row with Sean O'Brien, Taulupe Faletau and, when fit, Sam Warburton in the back row.

"For us to be much closer and be on the second row, and for Charles who is on the front row, I think that's really fantastic."

Dixon, the 2008 Indy 500 champion who will start Sunday’s race in the second row, agrees.