Santiago Cordero will feel like a kid playing for the first time if he starts against Leinster on Friday.
He had left Bordeaux for Galway, turning down other Top 14 offers because after four years of playing non-stop in France and seeing his own game suffer, he needed a change. "So, first couple of weeks were very, very tough. Very, very tough mentally. Just waking up every morning and looking at my knee and thinking, 'yeah, it's still there, it's still the injury'.
Cordero even took a three month course on how to start your own business. "Just for fun," he said. "Then just trying to help the team from where I was standing and try to rehab and get fit." "It was very weird. I knew it was going to be my first and my last in this place because everything is going to be gone so I couldn’t get used to that normal feeling."