Nathan Johns

When Bordeaux came onto the pitch to warm up, the first thing by BLBRA did is he went up and down the five meter channel next to the touchline, just chipping and chasing.

You know, how many tries does he score doing that?

It's something instinctive.

Then they did a drill where I think no McNamara kicked it to three attackers and there was two defenders chasing them and they just had to run it back and make the right option to find the space.

And then they did another drill where they would manufacture a line break for a forward.

So one of their big forwards gets over the gain line.

What do you do then instantly?

Jalabert comes from the backfield or wherever he is and hits this space right next to the

you can hit the space right next to the rope really quickly.

It was just really telling to see.

So all these things that we see them doing and they score all these tries, you literally watch them doing the work on that in the build-up and just how they frame their entire pre-match.

It was fascinating.

I mean, it was an interesting window into how they see the game and how they see the game slightly differently.

Oh, that's a good question.

They've, I can't remember which game it was.

No, not in the same way.

Yeah, exactly.

They're in a really interesting place.

And sorry, just you made James Lowe, who wasn't in the 23 and who was one of a number of non-playing players who was enjoying the sunshine and the wares of Bilbao before the game.

There's a big group of them interacting with fans, enjoying a drink or two pre-match.