O2 Inside Line: The Next Level | A kicking masterclass & hosting Ireland | Season 2 Episode 5

Be prepared for it, we're going to have to win it, like I said, at least twice, at least twice, so let's make sure we're here. We changed the training this week. We felt that having been here three weeks we needed a bit of a change usually on Mondays we have a run but this week we decided to go to Twickenham and did more jogging, Tuesday was more of an active recovery day and then Wednesday we split the training in two sessions, a short session in the morning and then our normal session in the afternoon the quality of work was really good excellent young players they are very different today they like the changes in the calendar 10 years ago if you changed the calendar you would have players on strike, but now young people like change.

It's a bit like the Internet. You know, things are changing rapidly, so it's much easier to start the change now. What did we say? We want to continue with that session. Probably yes, you do it. Good, good, good clarity, good questions. along the way, I used tomorrow's news tomorrow to help anything else as far as unity, team, we're not sure, so on Wednesday we'll fly, we're trying to really emphasize how easy the kick can be, so we're trying to kick it. like 30 and for sure what we get from the kick versus what we put in it percentage of the kit we want to try and put in is a 30 kit, so we should be able to get 30 40 meters, very good for 10 4. still going 30 to 40 meters, which makes it look effortless, it's basically just a wave at the beginning of the week, we just perfected our technique, so that's what my dad and I are trying to do here on this

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, even in normal

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s, you want to have like 50.

Percent of the mentality of the effort that is put in we want to keep our body, not just our leg, so basically the reason why we kick and we have that movement with the shoulder forward and the chest still on the ball it is because we believe that if we achieve that. Move without having any rotation from the shoulders or hips that will make the ball go straight down the channel, please try to finish this, okay, yeah, everything you bought, yeah, I'll try to finish even your left side, man, You know? uh obviously together a lot during the week, and we always have when we were in camp, so it's great, we really both want to try to improve as much as we can every day in terms of those things and obviously we're lucky that Johnny to come and help us with our sessions, which is a real privilege and we've learned a lot from him, so to be able to do it, you know, there's two or three of us.

Great job with Johnny, obviously you cover a whole range of things, knowledge, um, technique, um, huge things, but probably the most important things, um, are the parts that go into everything, which is kind of a way to get around it. , um and obviously, this, this, links. to kick friends links certainly links to everything and those will probably be the most fascinating things that you get into a lot of the things that I do when I kick, like the weirdest little things to see rc when I do kick, I probably did it for instinct as I grew up.

I guess I obviously put the ball down. If the wind is coming from the right, I would never aim directly at the middle and then hit it. to the right, I would aim directly to the right, I turned the corner quite a bit, therefore giving myself space for the ball. I'm a valve in the middle, but I give myself a bit of an angle with the ball out to the right, so it looks attractive to go and kick and then take a couple of steps back and then three or three to the side. I get the feel of the ball at the back of my position from the point where I'm standing and then and then I draw a

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between the ball and a point beyond the post and then I see the line and hopefully I kick it.

You are in the heat of a normal rugby match. You could be above and below the ground. You could be. When doing tackles, you could be chasing someone or whatever and then the

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thing you have to do is get yourself together to try and kick a goal kick, so for me, trying to catch all my breathing as much as I can. To calm myself down physically the only thing for me is probably not to think about things too much, to be honest people always say like when you're a kid and you go out and play with your friends and just have fun, that's when the best things happen. happens in terms of what you do with the ball in your hand and the way you kick the ball and you're not even potentially thinking about how you're doing it or what you're actually doing at that particular point, there will be times where you made a couple of efforts that mean you're, I don't know, out of breath or heavy-legged or something.

I've always been loading the way I play and what you see is what you get. I've always been good at putting myself in a place ready to kick, I don't know why I didn't know why it was that way, but I've done it since I was younger, I think it's almost sometimes that kicks have shown me the way in terms the way it should be played. Sometimes there will be times when I haven't stabilized enough, but generally over the years the kicks have pretty much shown me the way. you want to make a difference um you want you want to make an impact again that's one way to do it yeah yeah john john hill with the fade that's perfect isn't that really a good shot that good shot good shot 12 minutes to three?

We've been queuing since 10 because it's the three o'clock snacks and the days are like the little meal of the week before the game, maybe we very famous cookies, we're actually Richard Hill, you have to ask where they originate from and the recipe I started with. and now we have them every Friday or Saturday depending on when the game falls the day before the three guzzons we couldn't train all week and we will be fine and we can train all week and not have our chocolate cookies at three in point from the day before and we won't be okay, we won't be alive at all, that's the important thing, oh delicious, I guess the first time the chocolate chip cookie came into play, I think it was 1999, they also bought it as a genuine gift. done during the week, he snuck into the team room at four o'clock and was well received, all the players would have supported him wholeheartedly, it became a regular thing, he would turn up at four o'clock if he didn't appear there.

There would be all kinds of phone calls to the head of SNC at the time, Dave Reading, wanting to know where he is. I don't think things have changed since then, but then, for no reason, one day I think they probably decided. that we probably need to get a little bit healthier, they took it out the day before a game we lost the

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day, so that's why it went on for so long. We said he became superstitious, he had to stay and to this day here. It's 20 years later, more than 20 years later, yeah, the excitement is so much, it was cookie pie at four o'clock, now it's cookie pie at three o'clock, um, I guess Schumer just gives more time to be able to find the SNC boss if If you don't arrive on time and if you need to prepare it fresh, you know, I couldn't help but notice that there were one or two left after all the players left the room and you miss the first 20 minutes of the game.

It will be crucial that we establish a good platform, but we won't win the game, so we will have to win it again. They all keep coming, they're all good players who keep coming, so we're going to have to win it again so that our finalists have a huge job for us guys to shore up all this, guys, it's our way of thinking, we're going to go up, man, come on then and mario said they picked this great team, they tried them again on us, they got it. some doubts and that is beautiful, let's hope that they come tomorrow thinking what they are going to do to us because that means that we have to do our best to understand what it takes to be relentless, to continue supporting everything so as not to give in and suffocate. behind that we're not waiting for opportunities we're going to make things happen we're going to make some happen being tough on the ball playing through them I'm working on reforming them so we don't miss them whatever happens constantly, Mike, yeah, come on, there's a lot more to us, I said yes, which is exciting, but it's a good win against the good side, although enjoy it again guys, quite a bit over the last few weeks about selfless actions and just putting your body on your line to the person next to you and I think it really showed there today, the guys got in the position that they needed to get in, we found it and, yeah, we're pretty dominant, which is fine your