Lions trying to play it cool at Jersey training camp

Tadhg Beirne and Tadhg Furlong at a Lions Gym and Cryotherapy Session in Jersey. Picture: Inpho/Billy Stickland

The British & Lions began preparations for next month’s tour to South Africa yesterday as their training camp in Jersey got underway in temperatures warmer than Cape Town and Johannesburg.

With 11 of the 37-man squad still involved with their clubs in either the English Premiership play-offs or, in Finn Russell’s case, the French Top 14 equivalent with Racing 92, Lions head coach Warren Gatland has 26 of his tourists assembled on the Channel Island.