John Danaher

And shockingly, in the space of less than 12 months, we went from rock bottom to having a more successful ADCC competition.

team performance than we did the previous ADCC.

It was in fact the most successful team performance of the event and is testimony to how hard those young men worked in the course of less than a year to prepare themselves.

It was, you know, I'm not a particularly emotional person, but it was an emotional time for everyone.

It had an element of tragedy insofar as not only was it a team breakup, it was also a family breakup, which is much more serious.

I do believe that in time,

even the most intense family breakups can be reconciled.

And I also believe that once dialogue begins, people will remember just how easy it was for us to get along and how tight we were for many, many years.

It's so easy to let a minute of anger destroy

10 years of friendship.

But there's also the weight of those 10 years.

Like when I ran into the old squad members at ADCC, we got along like a house on fire.

It's like we never had a problem.

Yes, yes.

Sorry, that's a New Zealand expression, yeah.

Yeah, they definitely could have gone the other way, right?

Only a New Zealander would say that it's a good thing, yeah.

I still believe in time things will be fine, but there was an element where youngsters need to grow.

And sometimes, think about it this way, from the athlete's perspective.

There's definitely a generational problem.