We’re nearly through the Lions tour with just a few more days to go and back to nor­mal­ity for us all.

The camper vans are pil­ing up from the South, the bars are hanging Welsh/Irish/English and even Scot­tish flags and the events coordin­at­ors are pan­ick­ing with the final details. We’re even bump­ing into Lions fans hail­ing from our school days!

You will have settled on a place to either view the game or avoid the mad­ness.

She's a beautiful thing .. is one of his favourite sayingsOf course the media will be in full force and we’ve just heard that Tony Veitch and Radio Sport will be broad­cast­ing live from the Back­bench­er this Fri­day in pre­par­a­tion.

Demon­strate your pas­sion for the All Blacks with either the nation­al anthem, haka or All Black chant to win double tick­ets to the Bledis­loe game in Auck­land on 3rd Septem­ber includ­ing return flights and accom­mod­a­tion.

Show starts at 6am and runs to 9am.