Four Scrum Sleds, 53 Truck Journeys - Logistics Of A Lions Tour

Third Test: Australia v British and Irish Lions

Date: Saturday 2 August Venue: Accor Stadium Kick-off: 11:00 BST

Coverage: Live matter commentary and post-match study connected BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC iPlayer and online

Boiling 4 nations down to 1 team, cooking up a gameplan successful 4 weeks and getting to Test lucifer somesthesia connected force territory.

A Lions circuit is unsocial for players and coaches.

But for nan squad down nan team, a whistle-stop itinerary, immense distances and a big of unknowns besides coming a look for imaginable disaster.

Safely successful Sydney for nan tourists' last stop, Tom Day is 1 of nan squad to thief avert it.

"This is simply a mammoth undertaking erstwhile you see transporting a playing squad and backroom squad to and from nan confederate hemisphere, and past astir nan touring state itself," says Day, nan team's logistics manager.

The Lions travel pinch sizeable baggage - almost 10 tonnes were brought to Australia pinch them.

It consists of 4 sets of identical training kits, which were past divided up and sent astir Australia. Wherever nan Lions arrive, they find a lorry instrumentality of equipment, including a scrum sled, connected nan broadside of nan transportation to thief them prepare.

One group was driven nan 2,390 miles from Perth to Sydney, a region balanced to London to Siberia, to beryllium successful nan correct spot astatine nan correct time. In total, nan scheme stretches to 53 abstracted motortruck journeys covering astir 7,000 miles.

"One group of kit will ever beryllium up of america and nan sets of kit yo-yo astir nan country, truthful that erstwhile we time off 1 city, nan presence into nan adjacent metropolis is already sorted arsenic location is kit location and nan hotels and training grounds are already set-up," explains Day.

He is besides portion of an beforehand statement that is 1 measurement up of nan squad connected nan ground. Along pinch a personnel of nan information team, Day makes judge immoderate last-minute wrinkles that person cropped up since recce trips successful September and January are ironed retired earlier nan players arrive.

After Saturday's 3rd Test successful Sydney, nan Lions will caput backmost location pinch a bid win, but without their kit.

It is being near successful Australia and donated to section clubs and schools, alternatively than shipped backmost to Dublin.

The long-haul quality of a Lions circuit intends it besides comes pinch sizeable c cost.

A return formation from London to Sydney generates astir 2,484 kg of c dioxide per passenger, conscionable from nan burning of fuel. Emissions astatine precocious altitude are besides almost 3 times much harmful than astatine crushed level.

The Lions person committed to offsetting each of nan carbon, external created by their circuit party's travel, arsenic good arsenic that created by their fans' recreation and nan team's business operations astatine a costs of much than £250,000.