within the squad.

"I knew the captains fairly early on in my own mind on the tours I had," he said. "The best example is probably Martin Johnson who hadn't captained anybody [in 1997]. I had seen the impact Johnno had had on other players - his own team-mates and opponents - and particularly my team at Northampton when he was playing against us. That was an argument I had to win in some respects but I immediately felt he was the right personality to build a group around."

But McGeechan was also keen to stress the key influence of others who emerged during the course of a tour - in particular the Lions' last visit to Australia in 1989 that produced their most recent victory over the Wallabies.

"Australia inlocations, are highly camouflaged and are most active at night. However, like many challenges, brute force is a viable solution. Whilst beating the trees in Vietnam, entomologists triggered a common fear response in branch-hugging insects: They played dead. The “dead” insects loosened their grip on the branches and fell onto a sheet below where they were collected and studied. (Although this method was used in the study, the record-setting walking stick, according to Wired, was technically discovered in a bush.)

Phryganistria heusii yentuensis (above), was found in a Vietnamese nature reserve northeast of the Hanoi. (Credit: Belgian Royal Institute of Natural Sciences) The record-breaking insect, Phryganistria heusii yentuenis, measures 21 inches long with its legs fully outstretched. P. heusii yentuenis, like other stick insect species, is sexually dimorphic, meaning