British and Irish Lions: The logistics of life on the road

Boiling four nations down to one team, cooking up a gameplan in four weeks and getting to Test match temperature on enemy territory.

A Lions tour is unique for players and coaches.

But for the team behind the team, a whistle-stop itinerary, vast distances and a host of unknowns also present a recipe for potential disaster.

Safely in Sydney for the tourists’ final stop, Tom Day is one of the team to help avert it.

“This is a mammoth undertaking when you consider transporting a playing squad and backroom team to and from the southern hemisphere, and then around the touring country itself,” says Day, the team’s logistics manager.