'They can say what they want to say. 'I’m here, I’m doing my bit, enjoying my rugby.'
JEAN KLEYN IS a local in Limerick these days. He arrived from South Africa in 2016 with hopes of simply making his move to Munster a success. Little did he know how the place would become home.
None of this is what Kleyn imagined when he was growing up in Linden, a suburb of Johannesburg, and going to Hoërskool Linden, where he played rugby “for the craic.” Even when he was breaking through with Western Province and the Stormers, Kleyn had no idea where rugby would take him.“It’s an odd one but it’s incredibly heartening to know the move at the start was worth what’s happening now, where I am now in my life.
The lesson he took from that tough experience was simply to block out the noise from people whose opinions don’t matter. This applies to the good stuff as well as the bad. “Then, on top of that, you don’t bounce back from that because you’re in this rut and because you’re in a rut you play poorly and you get more bad reviews and it’s like an endless cycle.
“He is very focused on things like lads cleaning through [the ruck] and doing the unseen things, working back, once you are actually working off the ball, that is the way we describe it. “With the way we are attacking at the moment, all the forwards, all the tight five, we are being asked to do a lot more in terms of carrying the ball to the line, being able to play those inside, outside balls, blind sweeps, that kind of thing, playing the ball out the back,” says Kleyn.
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