CENTRE SPARKS
LLIOT DALY was chief coffee maker on the recent Lions tour. And on a trip where extracurricular activities were limited due to Covid-19 protocols, it was a vital role. Coffee mornings may be more commonly associated with charity events or OAP get-togethers but they were crucial to team bonding for the tourists.
The in-house café service provided by Daly and Jamie George was hugely popular.
The pair took the role seriously too, sourcing bags of coffee beans from places they’d been to on their previous travels to South Africa. Daly – on his second tour with the best of Britain and Ireland – is quick to name himself as the best barista in the squad and even George concedes his Saracens, England and Lions team-mate is more talented in that department. As Josh Adams said in one of the Lions’ Inside the Bubble videos: “I watched him make three this morning and every single one was on the money.”
Satisfying the caffeine demands of a 40-strong squad no
