John Cooney tore his calf around 25 minutes against Connacht last season which changed his whole mindset during the game
"I’m playing a high-level game here – a quarter-final – but I’m looking into the crowd and I can see my girlfriend. I know I’m off..."
Cooney has offered a brilliant insight into a player's mindset during those passing moments in a high-pressure game, and how it can impact on performance. View gallery "Not only that, but I’ve had this before. That last time, I played on and the tear got worse, and in the end I was out for eight weeks. So is it a dead leg or is it a tear, because I can play on through the pain if I really want…"
"It is such a weird feeling to have through a game! It turns out I did have a tear, and we didn’t win. "Sometimes it’s a big game and you want to find a way. I’ve done it before with other injuries and I’ve gotten through the game and we’ve won. But this time, with all of the different thoughts during the heat of the game, and then not being able to sprint, my energy levels went down massively."
"Kicking in the warm-up was out, due to the the pain. So I relied on visualisation. I was going up to the ball, like I would in my normal routine, but then just walking past the ball and pretending I’d kicked it! That was my whole warm-up. I just went into the game cold.
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