Jake White
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And obviously others.
I mean, we play to our strengths and make sure that we believe the things that we work for us work.
And, you know, one self-explanatory is you're only going to get X amount of chances.
Make sure you use as many as you can.
You can't let them slip out of your hands.
So if you get a five-meter scrum, five-meter line-up, just make sure you call the right play.
Make sure that you understand and you give it a full go.
You know, the interesting thing, Bernard, you would know as well, that altitude is one of those, you either go seven or eight days before, either way, or you go the day before.
So some teams that used to come and play in South Africa, they used to spend the whole time in Cape Town or Durban and literally on the day before the game, come and do the captain's run and play.
Because then it doesn't... They say if you do it more than that, in those you come in the middle of the week, it actually hits you.
Look, I don't think going to sea level hits the players as hard as it does for those sides to come to altitude.
So that's one area.
But I would have said that the first prize would have been, I mean, if I'd been coaching, I probably would have done what I did last year.
We went to Biarritz.
Remember, we spent three weeks in Biarritz and we used Biarritz as our home base.
And we then went from there and we beat Glasgow and we beat Munster from Biarritz.
I probably would have asked for the same, to go to Biarritz, base ourselves there, you know, there in the sun, be close enough with a quick flight over to Dublin.
Also probably would have helped with a bit of
with team spirit and a little bit of focus on the final.
Again, as a player, that doesn't always go well because players are going to go away with the box and then they're away for another two months and they go away another two weeks.