Darren Shand

In fact, I remember one day Dan Carter's agent said to me,

Dan wants you to organise a reunion because he wants a party with the team again.

But then just out of the blue, probably the beginning of this year, we got a note through Rob Nickel, actually, through the Players Association.

So that's sort of taken an initiative, got a few people together, and they just pulled it together.

And we started at the All Blacks Experience, Ian Jones hosting us, and we actually went through the experience, which was, I guess, personally set up for us

And so people that were absent, I don't know if you've done the All Black Experience, but there's a section where you go into the changing room and you sit there and there's some monitors that share stories of All Black history.

But these were stories from people who were absent, stories about the tournament.

And to my great delight, I still feature as the, okay, five minutes to kick off the tournament.

That's my voice, yeah.

Oh, how good.

And so then we walked into the room where the hooker is and you have this big screen and it was both the hookers from those finals.

And we're standing in front.

Yeah.

But you know, when you walk into a room, when you've done something with people, it just feels right.

Like it was, it just took me back straight away.

The conversations, everything just flows.

People just walk in the room and the conversation started.

There was no...

No need for introductions or just, there's just a connect, it's hard to explain, but there's just a connectivity that happens and, you know, walking, oh, Wasaki Naholo, where have you been?

Yeah.