A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

David has forced his way in. We're be playing against a physical Italian pack so we selected a back row to meet that. David has played well in the last month or so and has forced his way into the team.

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

My missus knows to leave me alone.

Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.

It's happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm.