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Aoife Wafer

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581 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And I guess like there comes a day where you just like you need something new, you need something fresh and fresh.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I guess coming here has really opened my eyes to that as well.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

It is that thing of you sit down in a meeting and you're looking at clips on the telly and you have the Welsh girls saying that they do it this way, you have the Spanish saying they do it this way, and you have me saying, oh yeah, I can see where you're coming from, but I'd try this.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

We all come together to try to bounce off each other, to get on the same page, first of all with Quinns, but as well to explore how

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

Each team, I guess, target different things.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And then you learn a lot as well by literally just watching how people prep.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

Let's say I live with Alex Callender.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

How does she go about a session?

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

She's obviously renowned for jackling and getting the ball back for Wales.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

So it's like, how does she target that in a week?

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And how does she prepare for it?

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

What sort of drills does she do to be able to be the best at breakdown?

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And it's little things like that that I've then added to my game and being like, oh yeah, if I approach this in whatever way, then maybe it'll make my game a percent better.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

So yeah, look, I think I've taken something from all the girls, whether it's our 10, whether it's our centres, our forward pack, no matter who it is, there's something you can learn from everybody.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

Yeah, yeah.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I mean, like we don't really chat, like we chat a bit about Nations, obviously, and I think more so probably off-field stuff than on-field.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And I suppose seeing how different Nations approach their culture and what's important to them, like what do they value?

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

Which I guess then just gives an insight into how different Nations approach things and

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

It is fascinating and the nerd in me is curious and I just keep asking questions and seeing where I can learn next.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I've really enjoyed my time here and I'm glad to be able to sign on for another year to hopefully keep challenging myself.