The seven time All-Ireland winner Johnny Cooper was talking on The Sideline Live podcast and revealed that he flew over to London to have a chat with one of the best fly-halves in the game of rugby.
“I flew over to London, took a taxi up to their grounds, watched their session and next thing I know I’m in a cafe 20 minutes down the road with Owen Farrell for an hour and a half, two hours, talking about all sorts of different things,”
“That type of thing, the captain of England at 25 or 26, and he’s obviously done lots since then, he’s a massive role model and that type of a thing and you obviously get a bounce from that
“It’s not that I didn’t believe I had something to offer but I was going there very much with a, ‘What can I pull in to me, to help my team-mates?’
“Whereas I guess he had the kind of the same thing in mind and I’m not surprised given his level of performance,”
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