Gordon D’Arcy

Take it to the line and then be a distributor.

And I think Harry Byrne and Frawley give you that option.

See, Harry Byrne's game management is probably a little bit better.

And I think he's going to be better for it.

for the semi-final run out and realising you know what I didn't have a great game by my own standards I didn't have a particularly poor game the sun came up the next day Leinster still won the game and he will be better for that pressure for that pressure that taste of the pressure environment and hopefully I hope that he went away and realised that actually I quite liked being there because you have to like being there you have to enjoy that pressure cooker

And it was a junior cup match.

But it was the injustice of it all because we were down in Cladair.

We were training ourselves.

We were doing everything.

And you have such a confirmation bias that you think you're doing everything right.

And then you go, it's exactly like that Mike Tyson quote.

You think, you know, everybody has a plan to get punched in the face.

And Black Rock punched us in the face and we had nothing.

absolutely nothing scrambling everywhere chipping from behind my own goal line and not actually i was playing at half of the time not a clue what was going on what to do where to go i just completely beat so i remember it so it's been back in school and you know it's february and your season's over and just chatting to the coach at the time and their prefect frank kelly and he

I was fully giving up rugby.

I was like, I can't do this.

This is just, it's not fair.

And I love just how he, I can't remember exactly what he said, but the sentiment was basically, you've had a bad day, but there will be good days.

You've got to be willing to come back for the good days and have the bad days as well.

But everybody, but every player has those.