Donncha O'Callaghan
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But they were the characters, like the brilliant, like when you mentioned Fergus Sadry, but like Willie Duggan, the amount of brilliant stories about Willie Duggan, Moss Keane.
And I do think there's an onus on us not to lose that.
You know, rugby is to reveal characters.
And you know what I mean?
Like we mentioned there, he was magic both on and off the pitch.
And that's what we need a little bit more of.
I think we should champion the brilliant characters that we have in our game.
And I think we need to reflect them in it.
Kind of say, no, come on, lads.
We need to see a little bit more of you.
You know, you need to be a bit more craft, a bit more fun.
More of it.
Honestly, more of it.
Just, ah, brilliant.
Yeah, you've nailed it.
That kind of one word, one score game and off the kickoff to make a big poach kind of changed the game, isn't it?
It's mad.
I remember we used to do a thing that we would only celebrate a score after we exited the kickoff, if you know what I mean.
It just helped with the mentality of...
don't switch off don't switch off the kickoff is you know what I mean because you know after you've conceded a try that's the first place to get back into the game so and that was just a bit of a soft entry look you don't want to be overly hard on the players we played at altitude it is horrendous but for me I expected a little bit more I know there's a massive amount of injuries in terms of their you know what I mean and that team to be fair are dealing with an awful lot but I don't want to go too easy on the players I