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.
