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I am joined today by Mark Evans. We all know Mark by now if you listen for any length of time

you'll know he's the guru of all things rugby and indeed business.

Currently based out of Fiji running the Dreyer Rugby team.

He joined us all the way from that beautiful island.

Mark, how are you?

All right, thank you, J-B-B-B-Cyrbie.

Considering we have an absolute towellling in Western Australia at the weekend, which was probably our worst performance of the season,

having played extremely well the week before away at the Brumbies in Canberra, which on papers

a much more difficult fixture.

But you know, that's sports, isn't it?

Yeah, what happened, Mark? When you're in charge of a sports team obviously these things do happen

Do you then immediately run a bit of an inquiry or do you just let it slip and say look it's it's a rugby thing and I'm thinking

like this actually because it happened this weekend with Gloucester I mean not to

that extent of course but what what do you do? It really does depend. Every situation is different and there is no set

answer to it. And also you've got to be a bit careful in my position.

You're not running the team.

You know, that's the coach's job.

But having said that, and you don't react to a single result. Although sometimes

individual results are a bit of a watershed or a tipping point to whichever

particular phrase you want to use.

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