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Published 13:39 2 Mar 2019 GMT
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"Gatland loved you getting on the smash, and then turning up and doing a session and fronting up; not giving up. Tim Payne was a master of that. "Payner, he said he's got extra red blood cells so he could essentially get on the steam and then turn up and kill everyone on the fitness test. He was unbelievably fit, Tim Payne. An incredible swimmer, really, really fit. "[He would go out after a match] and then he would front up on the Monday or Tuesday and smoke everyone, be the most professional, kill it in the [next] game and I was just like... in awe of the man!"The other player that has won the respect of Haskell is his Northampton Saints teammate Dan Biggar.
The Saints and Wales outhalf came off the bench against England and helped his country to a crucial win with some superb tactical plays.
"When Bigs first came into Saints - he obviously started the same time as me. I haven't ever seen a fitter guy, really, in terms of his fitness and his endurance. "I don't know what I expected. I met him on the Lions Tour [in 2017] and if you met him he'd tell you he thought he'd hate me, but he only mildly hated me! "he's an incredible team guy and he turns up for everything. He's always out with the academy lads and he's not big-time at all. And his fitness is just insane. He just keep running and running and running and running. He's a real professional, but not such much that he's blinkered and he doesn't have any chat or life."Going back to the topic of big nights' out, win, lose or draw, former England captain Mike Tindall told a fascinating tale about John Mitchell and how he often responded to his Sale Sharks side going through a tough time. The former All Blacks coach, who is now assistant to Eddie Jones in the England sit-up, would apparently lock his Sharks squad in a dressing room with ample supply of beer and tell them they were not leaving until every last drop was consumed: https://www.instagram.com/p/BueAYhTF6Bj/ That's one way of doing it.
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