947, Tuesday evening

So Haran was sharing a room with Butta Chamberlain. But a Chamberlain is taking so long in the shower. Ten minutes later, he's wondering why his teammate is taking so long in the shower, and of course, then goes to knock and then see, and then, wow, it all just unfolds. This is like 9 a.m. on a Friday morning.

They're playing La Rochelle the next day. So, how does that deal with that? You know, how does a team deal with seeing paramedics coming into the hotel and then the unfortunate finality of it all? And, you know, his hiring gets taken away and so on. And then there's obviously a team meeting. And they've got to now decide: guys, what do we do? Do we honor?

Fixture? Do we honor Hiran? Or do we say we can't deal with it? And look, then there's also logistical things, you know, they've got to come back and play the game again. But I don't think that was their motivation. Their motivation was: what would Hiran have wanted us to do? And he would have wanted us to go out and just play our backsides off, just give it a full go. And that's what they did. And

You know, the thing to take away from this weekend, and I'm not saying other sports don't have the same camaraderie as rugby, but I do think rugby does have something special. And from what Julian said, he said, you know, there were three South Africans in the La Rochelle team: David Creel, Salmon Murat, Dylan Lades. He said, those guys came straight over and said, We're here, we're with you, we're going to mourn with you. The La Rochelle.

Management owners came, they did everything they possibly could. The Lions then decided to play the game, and it was to honor Hiran. He wouldn't have wanted them to go home. And you know, the Lions guys, Julian said, you know, we arrived in our team bus, and when we got off, there were just thousands of people clapping us, and they clapped us all the way through into the

Stadium, they clapped, they continued to applaud when we warmed up. It was just so emotional, so nice to see rugby. I mean, every game in the Northern Hemisphere that was played had a minute's silence. I think you're right, Mike. And I'm glad that you were there to hear in on this press conference because, I mean, we saw the visuals, we saw the tears, we saw, you know, the fall.