“I was 14 years as a rugby pro, and had done three or four years before that in the amateur days, working as a police officer, it’s a nice feeling to be really good at something, you do take comfort in that,” he said. “It’s quite a common conversation among my generation of players, how it feels to go from being really good at something to not good at something, over the space of a weekend. The question is, how quickly can you fill that trough and get back to being competent, knowledgeable and confident in what you’re doing?”
