After months of pundits being asked to pick a Lions squad, the question will now be slightly different: pick a starting test side from the 41 players chosen in Warren Gatland's squad today. It will narrow focus somewhat, so no longer will we have any utterly mad shouts like Will Greenwood's for Adam Byrne.
That said, it's still a pretty bloated squad, and if one were to put all of the Scottish players into the starting test team, they wouldn't even make up a fifth of the team. Yep, despite Scotland's fine Six Nations showing - in which they beat Wales - they have just two players included in the Lions squad: Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour.
It's pretty disappointing from a Scottish point of view that there as many people born in Scotland in the squad as there are from Australia (Ben Te'o and Billy Vunipola), New Zealand (Jared Payne and Mako Vunipola), and Armagh (Iain Henderson and Rory Best).
To put the extent of that snub into perspective, the Daily Record have dug up a pretty incredible stat.
It's the first since 1908 a Scottish forward hasn't been included in a touring squad from these isles since an Anglo-Welsh side were defeated in New Zealand.
Scotland have traditionally been the poor relations on Lions tours, and on the last tour to New Zealand - the disastrous 2005 sojourn under Clive Woodward - no Scottish player participated in the series until hooker Gordon Bulloch came off the bench with ten minutes remaining of the final test. It led to a bitter chorus of Flower of Scotland from the Scottish journalists on the tour.
The Gray brothers can count themselves slightly unfortunate not to make the cut, although their form in recent months has been well below that of the other competing second-rows, which is a fiercely competitive position.
Perhaps the unluckiest to miss out is Hamish Watson, the flanker who, despite being particularly impressive against Wales in the Six Nations, misses out on a back-row spot to, among others, Welshman Ross Moriarty.
