18 months after the 1997 Lions tour to South Africa. However, the modern player does need to learn to chill out. That dimension has been sidelined. For example, I hear the England squad touring Canada in the summer might fly in and out of Victoria on the day of one of the midweek matches. Give the boys a chance to rub shoulders with other people from other cultures.
Club tours are a thing of the past too.
So the guys are not as rounded as they were. It's something we need to work on. The game has not lost its characters. It has redefined them. Old men may rightly shed a tear for Gordon Brown, but little boys will still queue for the autographs of Brian O'Driscoll and Jonny Wilkinson.