{"id":49029,"date":"2025-08-06T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:49:11","slug":"all-blacks-lions-should-not-go-to-new-zealand-in-2029-uk-rugby-writer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49029\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks: Lions \u2018should not go to New Zealand in 2029\u2019, UK rugby writer says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veteran British rugby writer Stephen Jones believes the British and Irish Lions should not tour New Zealand in 2029.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Sunday Times following the conclusion of the Lions current tour of Australia, Jones suggested it was time for a change to the historic quadrennial tours.<\/p>\n

\n The Lions are
\n scheduled to tour New Zealand in 2029, but Jones believes the Lions would be better off touring France with maybe a game in Italy.\n <\/p>\n

He believes they could then tour New Zealand in 2033 before touring the Americas in 2037.<\/p>\n

The Lions are due in South Africa in 2033 and Australia in 2037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 6 Aug, 2025 09:00 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[41691,3265,64,63,36042,9658,35393,41690,4717,10969,4443,4127,3127,6314,760,4215,10804,85,6182,319,245,5429,38303,26184,3205],"class_list":["post-49029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-41691","tag-all","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-believes","tag-blacks","tag-british","tag-go","tag-in","tag-irish","tag-jones","tag-lions","tag-new","tag-not","tag-rugby","tag-says","tag-should","tag-sports","tag-stephen","tag-to","tag-tour","tag-uk","tag-veteran","tag-writer","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}