Australia ponder backline options with only one 'Amigo'


SYDNEY (Reuters) - While the consensus is that Australia's best chance of beating the hulking British and Irish Lions will be to unleash their backline, exactly which seven backs will face the tourists in the first test is still far from clear.

Coach Robbie Deans still has three weeks until he names his side for the June 22 opening test in Brisbane and has been clear he will be thinking as much about what is "coming the other way" from the Lions backline as what damage his men can inflict.

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