Taulupe Faletau scores at Eden Park last year - Brooke says he is soft. Photo / Nick Reed
All Black great Zinzan Brooke has labelled one of the Lions forwards as soft.
Brooke says the Welsh No. 8 Taulupe Faletau lacks the "mongrel edge".
"Quick lesson for anyone playing the All Blacks - if you don't have that mongrel edge, you get found out pretty quickly against the
best team in the world," the former All Black No. 8 told the Daily Mail.
"It's not that he isn't a good player, he just isn't a key player...(he's) pretty much good at everything but doesn't have that mongrel edge."
Faletau has played for Gatland's Lions once, in the third test drubbing of Australia in 2013 at Sydney, with Ireland's Jamie Heaslip playing the first two tests.
