Um, Billy Hogan. Thanks for so much to talking to us. Some rather auspicious surroundings, nice and pleasant out in it.

Well, not quite the sunshine, but certainly the good weather.

The weather's okay. The weather's okay. This this the reason why you drag?

You can be behind dragging and pull over to the states.

So you can get put back closer to the home but also get away from the rain a little bit as well.

Well, we haven't had much of a summer in the UK. I would, I would agree with that.

No, coming, coming to, coming on tour, number one, is an important part of what we do at the club.

And it's something that we work very hard on.

Lots of people across the club are involved in the preparations that start about a year out actually so this would have all started last summer and having spent the previous two years in Asia

and then obviously we weren't on tour for two years because of COVID so it felt like the

right time to come back.

2019 was the last time we were here.

And then, you know, then we start to look at what are the different markets that we might go to.

And one of the important things that we were looking at this year was making it

logistically and operationally a bit more efficient and so having cities that

were a bit closer together cutting down the travel in between those cities and making it easier for the team

and then some of the facilities that we're in which obviously the first team isn't

here but you know the three stadiums that we're playing in the training centers

that we're at are all

world-class so I think it's interesting that you mentioned that because yeah it

does feel at times like it can be quite a grueling all deal almost you know

because obviously you've got to balance the commercial

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