Gary Keegan

But are they psychologically flexible?

Can they adapt?

Can they deal with when momentum has changed?

Can they deal with that?

And can they stop that momentum shift and take the game over again?

Can they remain present?

Can they remain outward focused?

So the plan was for me that if a player...

If a player thinks he's prepared, if a player feels he's prepared, he'll not cope with pressure because pressure is always there.

He'll leverage pressure.

he leveraged to up-level his performance.

Pressure is always there.

Pressure is always within the high-performance one, not just in the game.

It's in the training environment, selection, injury, all the sorts of things trying to stay atop your game is part of being in these environments.

So the plan was really important.

in my mind, how they shaped it was really interesting because players were innovating on ideas that I had.

And then I'd say to a player, I'd say to you, Joe, Joe, you're really good at this, right?

If I send a player or two to you, will you show them how you did it?

Sure, no problem, right?

So we had forwards sharing their ideas with forwards who were trying to win the jersey off them.