Donncha O'Callaghan

And then like the Friday morning, we're all back in the gym, back doing our rehab, back doing our physio.

But you get such a bond.

But then, like, I remember doing Nick Williams or Marcel Couttsy at one stage.

Like, we were both out with knee injuries for ages.

We were both trained together.

But then you see them return to play earlier than you and it breaks your heart.

Yeah.

you're running oh shit okay and like they go off and you see them come back in absolutely punctured and then for the next couple of weeks they're returned to play returned to play and trying to build themselves back up and you're just back at square one oh man it's heartbreaking but you're right you're right what you're saying though in terms of the loneliness and actually how important it is

and how nice it is almost to kind of, as a coach, to bring you back in and kind of go, listen, will you do the prep work for Leinster this weekend and maybe take a video analysis session with the whole team and kind of point out a few areas of weakness that you can really, that they can attack.

Oh, is that what that is at the front?

You're just filling the day.

Well, it just, yeah, I just, yeah, like I love that actually just being brought along with this.

When you're out of it, you just feel so far a distance and so far removed.

Did you like, did you ever spend much time without injured for any long periods?

No.

No, it wasn't.

I was out for 11 months.

11 months with my PCL one time that I got this real bad bone bruise and I just couldn't get rid of it.

Yeah.

But I remember the time I did my...