Former Wales and Lions three-quarter Dafydd James says the shortage of a Welshman within the line-up “says precisely the place Welsh rugby is and it is worrying”.

James, a Lions Check cap in opposition to Australia in 2001, stated: “I did not assume he’d [Morgan] get in, sadly, as a result of except he was going to start out, I did not assume they had been going to place him on a bench, which is a travesty.

“However simply purely on the idea of there’s so many back-row choices there, it did not look from the primary couple of video games that Jac was figuring as his [Farrell’s] most important seven, which is bitterly disappointing.

“It is sobering and a tragic indictment of the best way the sport has gone in Wales. Solely two gamers being chosen is tough, and also you’d must say on the again of 18 losses we had been all the time going to be up in opposition to it attempting to get many extra gamers.

“I believed there might need been 4 happening the tour, and we would be in with an opportunity [of players in the Test XV].

“And I believed with Williams, who began his marketing campaign on the Lions tour, he was trying sharp.

“He was in all probability my tip for beginning 9, however sadly he pulled a hamstring after which Jac stood up. He did not actually determine that a lot within the Argentina sport, however that could possibly be just a bit bit rusty, not figuring out the workforce members round you.

“After which he had an distinctive sport the place he had a person of the match efficiency and put himself again in competition.

“I might have picked him personally, however I am simply studying between the traces he [Farrell] appears to favour Curry, [Josh] Van der Flier and clearly [Henry] Pollock.”