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British & Irish Lions Tour Will Be Shortened, Premiership Rugby Says

The British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand this summer will be "the last in its existing six-week format," Premiership Rugby confirmed, according to Mark Dobson of the London GUARDIAN. Premiership Rugby CEO Mark McCafferty "echoed the stance" of Rugby Football Union CEO Ian Ritchie that the tours "must be shortened as part of the new global season" that comes into effect in '20. Former Lions captain Brian O'Driscoll is "among an army of dissenting voices who have demanded that tours are retained in their current six-week, 10-match guise," but McCafferty said that "things need to change." McCafferty added, "We have been fairly outspoken. At the start of the season we said we were unhappy about the intensity of the schedule that had been signed up several years ago and it needs to change. ... Ultimately it is up to the Lions how many games they put into the time frame, but we have a big interest in how players are managed through that" (GUARDIAN, 4/26). STUFF reported Ritchie called last week for "future Lions tours to be reduced to eight games." McCafferty "expects the reduced format to be in place by" '21, when the Lions are scheduled to tour South Africa (STUFF, 4/26).

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