McCall: Gatland is 'comfortable' with Saracens players' game-time before Lions tour


  • Rugby
  • Friday, 05 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union - Premiership - Saracens v Wasps - Allianz Park, London, Britain - September 5, 2020 Saracens' Head Coach Mark McCall at the end of the match Action Images/Paul Childs

(Reuters) - Saracens director Mark McCall said his players have received assurances from British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland that a lack of playing time will not count against them when he selects his squad for their proposed tour of South Africa.

Saracens, five-times Premiership winners who were relegated to the Championship in October after breaching salary cap rules, begin their campaign away to Cornish Pirates on Saturday - more than three months after the top flight began on Nov. 20.

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