Aoife Wafer

Everyone is the best in their position for their country.

It's how you set yourself apart from those players.

To be world-class, it does come down to fine margins.

I'm going to keep chasing that until the day that I leave the game, which hopefully is decades away.

Well, I realised I definitely wasn't a home bird anyway.

I don't go very home very often.

So like, yeah, my mum kills me a little bit for that.

But no, like with rugby, like I think the way, I guess, the different players see the game.

Like, yeah, you do the likes of Kayleigh Powell, who was phenomenal at Wales, I thought.

Like how she sees the game, what she's trying to target.

You have the likes of Liana McGay too.

And we often talked about different kind of,

like skills are like different bits and pieces where it's like I don't know like different carry bits where it's like oh what do you reckon are the most important factors in this carry or like that carry and I suppose just bouncing off each other for little different details and then obviously like Jay Conco in terms of like leadership and how she's kind of like played as well but

To be honest, I could probably rattle off a rake of names and what I've learned from all of them.

Because I guess when you play in an environment where everybody is completely different, where they've all come from different environments, whether it's a country or whether it's just different clubs, they all have something to bring to the table.

And I guess it's once you open your ears and just start chatting and kind of trying to dissect what they do, even just by watching them, it's really interesting.

And I guess I've kind of just tried to add as much of that to my game as I could.

Yeah, definitely.

Like, look, I've been in the HPC since I was, gosh, probably like 17.

Like I've been in the system since I was, I'd say about 14 or 15 or something like that.