Caelan Doris conducted the post-match pitch interview with the air of a man arranging his thoughts into substantive sentences on the fly, fully formed reflections rather than trite soundbites. He brought presence to the process in much the same way that he does in the match environment.
Following a change of direction in questioning from general to a more pointed inquiry about lineout woes, the psychology of the moment was not lost on a man pursuing a master’s degree in applied neuroscience.
He spoke about the noisy stadium acoustics that compromised the communication bandwidth, plausible deniability to argue against anything more ruinous, as there was no point in getting into the weeds of the issue, publicly. He didn’t take umbrage. Was it the acoustics?
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