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AN UNFORTUNATE PART of life as a professional sportsperson is that when you experience a day you’d rather forget, you instead have to pore over the painful moments all over again as part of your review process.
“We kind of just tested each other on our mental resilience. We’ve been really good at that at times, the best in the world really, in terms of getting back to zero and then playing on regardless of what happens in the game. And we felt we let a few key moments slip at the weekend. So we are looking to nullify that and it’s a new week. It’s exciting.
Friday’s game was Hansen’s first Test appearance since last year’s World Cup quarter-final defeat to the same opposition, with a shoulder injury ruling the Connacht man out of the Six Nations and Ireland’s summer tour to South Africa. “Things like that kind of go through your head, especially with the way the guys were playing, sill winning Six Nations and winning tours when I was away. A lot of guys really stepped up and played great, like Nashy and Jamie and those sort of guys coming through. So yeah, things like that do go through your head and to get it again was just it was another dream come true almost.“It’s a hard one to kind of navigate through.
I found it was a pretty hard game for me to get into as a winger. I felt sort of everytime I tried to get involved and get a hand on the ball, it just seemed to fall apart a little bit. “But you get games like that unfortunately. I tried to flip my mindset a bit and just try and get my hands on the ball as much as I could. I feel like I did that in the last 10/15, maybe a little bit more involved, but now I’m working on just doing that for the whole 80.
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