Prem Final Preview with Furbank and Baxter

Well, one thing, well, sort of, one thing you do definitely know about is Prem finals.

However many technicalities there are out there, you've played in a lot of them.

Mm-hmm.

You know what they're all about.

You know how cool they are, how special they are, how the week feels differently, how hot it can be because we're sitting here around the corner from Twickenham 48 hours out, and it's boiling.

All comes into it, I imagine.

Well, of course it does, and, um, on a few occasions, we try to get on the front foot of that by doing heat training to acclimatize as much as you can.

But this weekend is properly hot.

That is, like...

It can be game changing.

Remember a couple against Exeter where we just had nothing left in the legs.

Thankfully, you had enough of a lead.

You've got to hope you've got enough of a lead to counteract what's gonna happen on 60 minutes because...

And this is, again, where it could affect Exeter more than Saints, just because of what they went through last weekend was proper battle, weren't it, to get themselves in that.

Even the f- just the 40 phases alone at the end is enough to take you another day to recover.

Plus they've already had a day.

Extra, uh, added-

Yeah

... shorter-

Yeah

... sorry, with the game when they had their game.

So yeah, that, all that stuff can play into the hands of, of Saints.

But that would be too easy, wouldn't it, to just play it like that?

Oh, yeah, and, and-

That's why it's sport