Jono Gibbes

what opportunities that we had, what moments that we had that we possibly didn't control and that we knew we were going to have to meet them somewhere in the playoffs and that we would have the opportunity to show in a playoff game things that we'd learnt in our hard fought wisdom and we'd be able to put those things into practice.

I think the formula that's worked for this group, they're a mature group and they've played a lot of games together.

I think the formula that's worked for us is just trying to nail the thing that's right in front of us and concentrating on if that's the day, if that's the gym session, if that's the field session, we just try and make sure that we can walk away from that satisfied.

We put our best efforts into that and

If we can stack those days up, we end up having a good week and feel good about our prep and go play the game.

So in all honesty, I think for us, we just want to enjoy this moment right now.

There's a lot of people who've worked extremely hard to put ourselves in a position to go back to the final.

And we've got a couple of hours where I think it's important that we serve this moment.

And then we switch over, we get going, and we get excited about a pretty awesome opportunity next week in Wellington.

So for us, it's just what that week looks like.

We know what works for us, and we'll just keep going.

Yeah, I think the Hurricanes are playing good rugby and I think on past months evidence you'd suggest that it'll be the Hurricanes, yeah.

I think I've been lucky enough to work with teams that have had games like that.

I think what's more important is about this group, this performance.

what went into that the week.

I think, you know, Lukie Toopes, the leaders had an awesome influence this week.

They did a great job and, you know, their voice was the loudest.

Their example was the best and I think, yeah, like really satisfying but incredibly proud and, you know,

lot of admiration for how the team was led this whole week.

I think it's a week that we will need to recover.