Kieran Read

And I felt like we were too, like, man, both teams just smacking the shit out of each other, like, and just defences were strong.

It was just awesome.

Yeah.

Then, like, you felt a little bit of pressure, I guess, when they made that little break and scored the try.

But,

You know, like it was pretty, like just tit for tat.

And we couldn't quite break them down.

We missed a few kicks and, you know, they couldn't break us.

We weren't letting them break us down.

Yeah, it was intense.

Did the group always feel in control?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it did.

Yeah.

We'd done a lot of work on that kind of mental side of things coming from 07, like the guys who were there in that period knew the importance of being really switched on mentally.

And that was probably the number one difference for us to be able to get over the line in a real hard pressure environment.

Yeah.

So we felt pretty calm.

Off the field, it was more nerves and everything.

But as soon as you got on that, in between those white lines, like...