by Paul Cook - As the saying goes ‘for every negative, there is a positive’ and so it is with the controversial elements of the British & Irish Lions tour Down Under thus far. Last Tuesday’s 64-0 whitewash of a NSW/QLD Combined Country team, following hot on the heels of last week’s 69-17 despatching of a ‘second string’ Western Force outfit, has led many, for the most part of a Northern Hemisphere persuasion, to question the very existence of such ‘one-sided’ affairs. While the validity of these fixtures as a true contest may be rightly questioned given the apathy towards them shown by the decision makers in Perth and the sheer inevitability of the mismatch in Newcastle - certainl