The talk from the Leinster players had left us in no doubt that Joe Schmidt wasn’t going to be more of the same. Leinster were so far ahead of the other clubs in Europe, and we were keen to see what was going on. Everything changed from the moment Joe arrived. It was a different environment. The intensity was different. Some people struggled, but I loved it. You quickly learned that if you didn’t know something, Joe would fucking annihilate you. But if you put a bit of thought into what you had to do before a session and were…

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