In a hot and humid Hong Kong, O'Connell is set to lead out the team against the Barbarians -- a scratch team of international players -- with 17 of the 23 players in the Lions' match-day squad pulling on the team jersey for the first time.
The first exhibits are sarcophagi decorated with mounted Roman soldiers trampling half-naked Barbarians.
Barbarians coach Philippe Saint-Andre revealed his side's social commitments this week contributed to their poor display before their late revival.
"We have been very impressed with Rowan's contribution to the game in Hong Kong and have no hesitation in inviting him to be part of our squad, " Derek Quinnell, team manager of the Barbarians, or Baa-Baas, said in a statement following Varty's selection last month.
Among those were Fourie, who was forced home after an injury in the first game against the Australian Barbarians, and Doran-Jones, who earned a cap as a replacement against Argentina last autumn amid an injury crisis and who impressed the coaches with his attitude on tour.
The British and Irish Lions, a team of the best rugby players from the British Isles, got its 2013 tour off to a winning start with a 59-8 victory over the Barbarians, an international invitational team, in a warm-up match in Hong Kong.
Hape made his first England appearance in the non-cap, pre-tour game against the Barbarians and has been preferred at inside centre to Bath team-mate Olly Barkley, alongside Mike Tindall in midfield.
After a fortunate 28-28 error-strewn draw against the Barbarians in the opening match of the tour, and a 27-17 loss to the senior Australian team, Johnson's tourists needed a morale-boosting performance and result from this game.
McCarthy makes a persuasive case for - in this "confrontation against barbarians who make a mockery of the civilizing impulses behind international law" - a new legal paradigm that balances national security interests with due process principles.
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After a barrage of replacements there were no further scores until the 57th minute, when Smith pilfered Barbarians ball and hooker Moore goose-stepped his way over.
While the Barbarians await replies from those star names, Llanelli Scarlets once-capped All Blacks centre Regan King has accepted his chance to play for the Barbarians.
The Blues pair helped the Barbarians beat World Champions South Africa 22-5 at Twickenham in November.
Banahan seized his opportunity in the 33-26 non-cap loss to the Barbarians to earn a starting spot against the Pumas.
Stoddart was Man-of-the-Match with a two-try display in the 40-24 win against the Barbarians in a match to mark the official opening of Parc y Scarlets.
Lock Dave Attwood escaped sanction over two stamping charges following last Tuesday's 28-28 draw with the Australian Barbarians after England complained that the citing commissioner should not have been Australian.
Sounds like someone might need to re-read their copy of the classic Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.
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This plays out in video games and fiction and comic books and movies, where we play as near-invincible soldiers, ninjas, or barbarians or read about super heroes or powerful wizards, or watch Chuck Norris lay bearded waste to wave upon wave of bogies.
Philippe Saint-Andre and Kingsley Jones will coach the Barbarians, who will take on England at Twickenham on 30 May before facing Ireland at Thomond Park on 4 June.
The Barbarians, playing their first match in Australia in their 119-year history, beat England at Twickenham last week but could barely get their hands on the ball in the opening period.
Wilkinson's expected two-week recuperation will rule him out of England's match against the Barbarians at Twickenham on Sunday 30 May.
His absence means a total of 13 of the Springboks' World Cup-winning squad are unavailable for the tour which also sees them play the Barbarians.
"The match against the Barbarians at Twickenham on 1 December will be my last as Springbok coach, " the 43-year-old said in a statement.
The former Ospreys player has been included in Wales' 45-man preliminary World Cup squad, and featured in Wales' defeat by the Barbarians earlier this month.
If the ancient Greeks referred to the Macedonians as barbarians only because of political conflict, then why other Greek tribes are not called barbarian or non-Greek by the ancient Greeks.
Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution, the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux.
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