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Dawson Lions

Some legendary players have worn the famous red shirt of the British and Irish Lions as well as the black, green and gold.

Leading the total number of Lions appearances is Dickie Jeeps with 13 from his three tours. Jeeps is also unique in this list for being capped by the Lions before playing for England.

There are several other players who have toured more than once - Jeff Butterfield, Keith Savage and Matt Dawson, who has also gone into Lions folklore for his spectacular try in the first test against the Springboks in Cape Town, 1997. In Sir Ian McGeechan Saints also provided the head coach for this successful tour of South Africa as well as five players, the highest number to come from the club for any one tour.

The most recent Lion was Euan Murray, who toured South Africa in the summer of 2009.

Year	Country Toured	Players
1955	South Africa	Jeff Butterfield, Dickie Jeeps, Frank Sykes
1959	Australia, New Zealand	Jeff Butterfield, Dickie Jeeps
1962	South Africa	Dickie Jeeps
1966	New Zealand	David Powell, Keith Savage
1968	South Africa	Peter Larter, Keith Savage, Bob Taylor, Bryan West
1993	New Zealand	Martin Bayfield, Ian Hunter
1997	South Africa	Nick Beal, Matt Dawson, Paul Grayson, Tim Rodber, Gregor Townsend, Sir Ian McGeechan (coach)
2001	Australia	Ben Cohen, Matt Dawson
2005	New Zealand	Steve Thompson
2009	South Africa	Euan Murray

In 1899 and 1904 Blair Swannell was capped seven times by a British touring side, an early forerunner of the Lions.

Alex Day and Danny Hobbs-Awoyemi will be facing the Haka tomorrow evening when England Under-20 come up against New Zealand in the IRB Junior World Championships semi-finals.

Tom Wood will head into his summer break with his undefeated record as England captain intact after leading his team to a 2-0 series win in Argentina.

Stephen Myler says that the half-dozen Saints who are in England's match squad this weekend are looking for a good performance, not just to help achieve a test series win over Argentina but also to dedicate to Leon Barwell, who passed away yesterday.