It seems somewhat churlish to be ramping up the importance of a game of rugby for a player, when you consider the journey that Warringah’s talismanic no.8 Sam Ward has been on just to get here.

With two Ken Catchpole Medals to his name, Warringah flyhalf Hamish Angus hasn’t exactly underachieved in his time guiding the Rats around the park over the last few years. But that absence of a Premiership title, or even a place on the biggest day of the club rugby calendar, has been gnawing away at the flyhalf and the team mates he grew up with for a while. Now they’re finally here, they want to make sure it counts.