Props like to move forward so it's no surprise Cian Healy isn't looking back to 2022 when the Bulls got the run on Leinster in the BKT URC semi-final.
It was the first year of the new format in which the cream of the South African crop had swapped Super Rugby for European companionship.
No one was quite sure how the newbies would adapt but they were soon to find out; South African teams have made up three of the four finalists in two seasons.
After finishing fourth in the table, the Bulls, the premium export from South Africa, faced off with champions Leinster at the RDS and came away with a 27-26 win.
That Healy scored the last try, with the clock in red and Leinster down by eight, means nothing to the 36-year-old Ireland prop.
"Not personally, no," he replies when asked if that defeat, that came two weeks after the Champions Cup final loss to La Rochelle, still sticks in the craw.
"Kinda moved from that and dealing with what's ahead. I don't tend to look back at too many games."
Speaking to media on Tuesday on a virtual call, the five-time Six Nations winner was getting into the swing of things on a very unusual week for the province.
While Healy went on tour in April among a largely second string outfit that lost to Lions and Stormers, the 'A' team are more used to URC play-off games on their home turf.
Saturday's game at Loftus Versfeld is their first URC knockout match on the road since 2019, and even that was a short hop to Celtic Park for the final.
In the immediate aftermath of Saturday's 43-20 win over Ulster, head coach Leo Cullen spoke about the difficulty of arranging a long haul flight at short notice.
Healy, who may have pulled rank as a senior member of the squad, revealed some of the logistics involved.
"The travel was a bit split," he explained.
"A group left Sunday afternoon and a larger group left Sunday evening.
"Big enough layovers for some lads, some guys were probably 10 hours in Dubai waiting over.
"There's a bit of routine in place where it's don't spend your whole time seated.
"It was all right, it was good. We got looked after pretty well. We got enough time to have a stretch in the middle.
"The general stuff, get up and have a bit of movement and get your fluids in, all that. We had some stuff to review while we were on it.
"We got a nice one, we got an hour and a half so quick enough transfer for us. Arrived in yesterday [Monday] evening around dinner time, some more lads arrived in around 10.30 at night.
"A good bunch of us got to the gym for a spin out on the bikes to get the legs going .
"Today [Tuesday] was a morning of meetings and pitch in the afternoon and gym afterwards.
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"It's a good buzz traveling with such a big group. You get a bit of craic out of it and it's a bit different to the norm.
"Especially with club, you don't do a whole lot of big travel or full week away with a club so there's a good energy about it."
Leinster beat Connacht and Ulster in their two games since the disappointment of losing a third straight Champions Cup final and Healy suggested that the road trip may help them to win a first trophy since 2021.
"We haven't been successful in the last couple of years so maybe it's something that's needed, I don't know," he said.
"A challenge on the road, a week spent together as a group where you live together and band in and do everything together. There's going to be some big positives from it."
The eight-time champions routed the Bulls 47-14 when the sides met at the RDS in round 13 and Healy said key to repeating the trick is not allowing Jake White's side, who beat Benetton 30-23 last weekend, to get the upper hand in the scrum.
"Their setpiece is very strong, it's probably the heartbeat of their game and what gets them going," said the Dubliner.
"It's a huge test ahead to deal with that and assert our own set-piece on top of theirs."
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