Lions must put a back-room team together now for All Blacks’ tour | Robert Kitson

Warren Gatland will be handed the reins for the 2017 summer tour to New Zealand on Wednesday and his support team could prove to be as important as the players in New ZealandThe selection of a British and Irish Lions coach seldom involves a trip into the less trodden grass of left field. For years it was largely a matter of phoning Sir Ian McGeechan and asking what role he fancied next time. Increasingly a text or WhatsApp message to Warren Gatland is the modern equivalent. Let’s just say the “mystery” man to be unveiled in Edinburgh on Wednesday will need little introduction to rugby in New Z…