{"id":17636,"date":"2025-07-28T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/british-and-irish-lions-the-logistics-of-life-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:09:47","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-the-logistics-of-life-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/british-and-irish-lions-the-logistics-of-life-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: The logistics of life on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Boiling four nations down to one team, cooking up a gameplan in four weeks and getting to Test match temperature on enemy territory.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Lions tour is unique for players and coaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Safely in Sydney for the tourists&#8217; final stop, Tom Day is one of the team to help avert it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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,&#8221; says Day, the team&#8217;s logistics manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cy5pyq7w1n7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17638,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions\/17638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}