'I've learned an incredible amount over this World Cup cycle off all the coaches, they've definitely made me a better player, a smarter player.'
AS TADHG BEIRNE gears up for his second taste of a Rugby World Cup, the Munster and Ireland forward hopes the experience proves to be more fulfilling than 2019′s trip to Japan.
“Overall just disappointment from the get-go, even when you talk about warm-ups we didn’t particularly play well in them, did we? And that fed into the World Cup in terms of our performances over there. “The game has changed a lot as well , in fairness, but I think I’ve learned an incredible amount over this World Cup cycle off all the coaches that have come in here, they’ve definitely made me a better player, a smarter player definitely.
“I think it certainly lifted our spirits, that’s for sure. We have been to semi-finals and finals so many times over the years and lost, it can take a while to get over that. So you kind of feel the pain for the Leinster lads as well, what they went through. Just for us it gave us a little pep in our step coming in, we didn’t have our heads down like we have probably in the past. It was a nice feeling for us, for sure.
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