Ulster Rugby vs Edinburgh

SEAN REIDY CELEBRATING 50 CAPS

Against Edinburgh you will achieve 50 caps for Ulster, an exciting time? Yeah, it’s come up pretty quick, after my first season here I didn’t think I would hit 50 caps so it’s good to get there. You seem to be really settled here? Yeah, I’m settled now, my wife and I have just bought a house, so we’re ready for our next three, three and a half years here, we’ve really made Belfast our home.

We know it’s not the weather, but what’s the best thing about Ulster? The best thing, as I’ve mentioned, is the people I’ve met here, everyone is so friendly. Even in the team everyone has the same goals, the same ambitions and everyone’s driving each other on. Afer a disappointing run of games, what are you guys doing to move forward? We’re looking at our mental toughness to close out games, there’s been a few opportunities in the last ten to fifteen minutes of games where we haven’t quite stepped up and got the win. So we’re looking to push ourselves hard, working on erasing those errors and really trying to be clinical in the right areas. This game against Edinburgh is a big one? Yeah defiantly, we didn’t perform very well over there and everyone here knows it. Edinburgh’s been our focus for a while, so we’re putting all our effort into that and hopefully put on a good display and get a victory here for our supporters. With the international guys away, is it more of a challenge? To be honest not really, obviously the international guys are away for the Six Nations but we’ll probably get a few back. There’s a lot of young guys who are really stepping up especially in training and in meetings, everyone’s throwing their hand up to play, it gives guys an opportunity and we’ve got good depth in our squad, so guys will put their hands up and I’m sure they’ll step up and perform. What do the next 50 caps have in store for Sean Reidy? I’m not too sure really, hopefully I’ll clock them up pretty quickly again, it’ll be a massive honour to get to 100, but first things first, I’m going to try and get number 50 out of the way and try my best against Edinburgh and then take it game by game.

SEAN REIDY

What would you say is your favourite memory to date?

It’s more about the people I’ve met and friends I’ve made along the way, obviously with rugby a lot of friends come and go but there’s been a lot of good people that I’ve met here in Belfast, who I will continue to know for a long time. What has been your biggest challenge? Probably just adjusting to the lifestyle over here and being away from home, it’s always tough being away from your friends and family and your support base back home, but then again it’s been fairly easy as well in the sense that there’s a lot of foreigners out here and everyone here makes you feel really welcome and settled.

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