None more so than back home in Britain where all things have been far from great or mighty for the predictable politics played out by the reigning rulers. So what went wrong? We all have our post-pollster theories, so here's my two bobs' worth.
Giving Theresa May the ball and kicking to the Tory touchline was same old same old - just like the Lions, and the opposition read it well by seeing it coming.
As coach and captain it has cost her and her team dearly as it will Gatland, if he does not go for game-breakers and break the mould of predictable rugby.
Relying on the same old, same old has left the Tories in turmoil and Theresa looking like a lost cub in a pride of grumpy politicians, all with a troubling toothache.
The good news for the rest of the world, especially us who are about to also wake up to an election, post the Barmy Army leaving it out and heading home with a few wounds of their own, is the sleeping giant of digital democracy has woken up.
If ever there was a game-breaker in the political process of choosing new leaders with a vision for the future it has to be the influence of the internet.
The future face of digital democracy has arrived and not a moment too soon in my humble opinion.
If we are to turn these moments into movements of lasting change where the taniwha in the whare is greed, it is now.
Just like a discerning coach who sees the future talent of game-breakers and lets them loose on a predictable opposition, so too will be the success of future political parties all across the globe.
For France and now Great Britain, the new face of digital democracy has been born and listened to by a new breed of politicians. Will it be a game changer here in September?
More and more I see and hear a growing interest in what is going on in "God's own" by a new generation of voters, who are turning on via the switch of social media.
The other post match election observation to be savoured is the "know all-stars" or pollsters as they profess to be. They sure knew bugger-all about the latest two elections in Europe and the other crazy one in the Excited States of Donald Duck Land.
Pour moi, I am tres happy they got it wrong. In this age of digital data, pored over and processed by pollsters who know it all, it is somewhat comforting that the hits and misses and head high tackles of human nature make it hard to quantify our voting intentions.
The more they get it wrong and they have been as consistent and predictable as Pommy rugby, the more exciting politics becomes, especially the week of September here in the land of the long line of voters on the 28th.
Right now, the pollsters and the party strategists here will be zoning in on the game changers that is if they want to win. Playing it safe and kicking to touch will end in tears as it has for Theresa.
Will housing be the game changer? This pollster says so. I guess we will just have to crouch and hold - before we engage in three months' time and see who knows it all.
Will it be the coachers, the players the pollsters or the punters.
One thing is for sure - history never repeats itself but it does rhyme, on the rugby field as it does during elections, and know-alls like moi who sometimes know nothing at all make it more fun.
Hear hear!
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