British and Irish Lions

The diary will be featured on the Lions website and give those not travelling a supporters-eye view of the trip. The Lions Tour will be an unforgettable experience in an amazing country, with a great fixture line-up including games against the Royal XV, Sharks and the Springboks themselves.

To get involved and become a part of this once in a life time event, in 100 words or fewer, explain your favourite Lions moment and what it means to you. Those with the most lucid and entertaining writing style with a real Lions passion will be picked to write the diary and feature online throughout the tour. The blog can be done via email or over the phone.

To qualify you must be a Lions Supporters Club member, attending all three test matches, and you must commit to send at least one update a week along with match reports for each of the games you attend. Please visit the Clubhouse for more details on how to enter. Closing date is 11 May at noon.

If you are not a Lions Supporters Club member, join now whilst there's still time to enter.

Qantas Wallabies head coach Robbie Deans says he picked his Test team for Saturday's opening international based on how his side plans to play rather than on what The British & Irish Lions will bring to the table.

Warren Gatland says he and his British & Irish Lions Test team are fully aware of the size of the threat posed by Qantas Wallabies wing Israel Folau this weekend.

Less than four kilometres away from the Suncorp Stadium, venue for the opening Test between the British & Irish Lions and Qantas Wallabies on Saturday, lies the grave of the man who took the starring role in the first international between the two teams in 1899.