Like most players at Munster right now, Shane Daly is enjoying his rugby.
Winning certainly helps, and Munster have done that seven times in a row in the BKT United Rugby Championship in their rise to third in the table.
Scoring tries does a world of good too. In Daly's first 13 appearances of the season, many of which came at full-back during the province's injury crisis, the 27-year-old crossed the line once. Five tries in his last six games have changed that ratio considerably.
The secret?
"Just being in the right place at the right time, I think," the Corkman says of his recent hot streak.
"Playing in a good team like this, playing on the wing is a good place to be, and the way we're moving the ball at the minute is definitely suiting me, so I'm happy to stand out there and wait for the ball to come out."
There's obviously a lot more to it than that, particularly with how Munster use their wingers, with both Daly and Calvin Nash consistently encouraged to move infield to get involved in play, rather than stay at their post and wait for the ball to come their way.
The high-energy style of play took a while to get used to when attack coach Mike Prendergast arrived to work with head coach Graham Rowntree in 2022, as they went through a rollercoaster season that ultimately ended in a URC title.
At times it can be a high-risk style of play and lead to a high turnover and handling error count, but for Daly, there's no better way to approach the game.
"I'm loving it. Since the lads have come in, I have really enjoyed my rugby. I love the way we are trying to play the game and even when we haven’t performed, we are still trying to play the right way, we are trying to play to space.
"There are games when the passes don’t stick or the ball goes down but I feel our intent is always in the right place because we are trying to do the right thing.
"That’s all I have ever wanted as a player, to have that kind of freedom to take the opportunities that I see and the lads definitely empower us to do that."
Daly, who won two caps for Ireland during the 2020/21 season, has been almost ever-present for Munster in the last two years. Last season, he missed just three games, and all of those due to his commitments with Emerging Ireland on the tour of South Africa. This season, he's started every URC game, and missed two Champions Cup ties due to illness and injury.
For the first few months of this season Daly had to fill in at full-back due to the lengthy injury list at the province, which saw them hit a rough patch of form in December and January, winning once in just six games.
"I think we never lost faith or lost sight of what we were as a team. We knew what we achieved at the end of last season and the performances that we put in at the end of last season.
"We knew nothing really changed, we just struggled with a bit of injuries and different things happened throughout the year that were always going to happen, but unfortunately, we probably were less fortunate than other teams.
"There were games where we were very thin on the deck but we made it work, we kept ourselves in a position to have a good run at the end of the year," Daly added.
Since winning the URC title 12 months ago, the province have added to their coaching team with the signing of Mossy Lawler from Connacht, who joined as skills coach.
And Daly believes the former Munster wing has added another layer to their attack, as they look to win back-to-back titles.
"Mossy has layered little micro-details onto the back of that, which has given us a clear idea of what we are trying to do and achieve off each play, and who we are trying to sit down and things like that.
"So, it’s just having a deeper understanding of what the role we were previously doing is definitely the layer that was added this year."
Those "micro-details" really are micro.
"For me, it’s not just how good is your pass, it’s how early you catch the ball, where you catch you ball, how many times have you looked before you have caught the ball to see where the space is or are you listening to the chat outside?
"There are a million different things that people don’t really see when you are watching a game that someone is doing.
"When you watch the world-class players do it, it’s clear as day. If you watch someone like Beauden Barrett or Richie Mo’unga, how they scan the pitch before they touch the ball.
"Bringing those kinds of details into it has definitely made us all better rugby players.
"He can make sure he is on top of those smaller things which can have an impact on the games."
Standing the way of Munster and an eighth URC win in a row are Edinburgh, with Sean Everitt's side desperate for points themselves to stay in the play-off mix.
A win at the Hive Stadium on Friday night would see Munster - temporarily at least - move above Leinster and Glasgow to the top of the URC table.
Pulling the strings of the Scottish attack will be the familiar face of Ben Healy, the former Munster out-half who moved to Edinburgh last summer.
The Tipperary man has been a perfect fit in the Scottish capital, and is the URC's top scorer this season with 153 points, while he's started every game of the campaign.
"I would have been good friends with Ben here so it's been great to see how well he's been going over there, he's been a talisman for them," Daly said of his of his former team-mate.
"He's definitely somebody we respect and we all have a good relationship with, so I'm looking forward to playing against him and catching up with him after the game.
"We had so many good tens that he was in and out of the team, but he’s playing unbelievably well and he’s obviously got a tremendous passing and kicking game that we’re going to have to respect this weekend.
"He’s really steering the ship over there and it all seems to come through him so it’s been a good move for him and to see him go well in the Scottish environment as well is great. So we’re all delighted for him here."
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