After 11 months as a Test coach, Paul O'Connell can't waste a minute

The biggest lesson on the other side of the coin as a coach was maximising the precious minutes you get to work with players

Autumn Nations Series, Aviva Stadium, Dublin 6/11/2021

Time. It’s always more time international coaches want with their players and you can understand why.

Such is the nature of this new season, with the provinces only getting their United Rugby Championship campaigns underway at the end of September and no time for the customary October rounds of European pool games, it was an undercooked group of players received into Ireland camp by Andy Farrell and his assistants 10 days ago.