Matt Sherratt, the new Wales interim coach for the rest of the six nations of 2025, led his son to three different sports occasions last year.
As a couple, they went to see the Giants of the Premier League Liverpool, a Cricket match in The Hundred and a rugby game, which was not an international Wales.
It was the last of the ones that appealed.
“I took him to a rugby game and he asked if we could go at 55 minutes,” said Sherratt this week. 'It was a kick festival. I thought: “How sad is there a 12 -year -old boy who loves sport and wants to leave the rugby game?”
It is not that experience only the one that influenced how Sherratt wants to do his business in professional rugby, but he certainly had an impact.
“I am probably in the stage of my career where it is important for me that people come and enjoy watching a team play,” he said. 'Not at the expense of winning because that is really important, but I want the players to leave and be brave.
Matt Sherratt has been appointed interim until the end of the six nations
Sherratt ran so fast for his presentation that he was still carrying cardiff training team
'I think we have a duty to make sure people enjoy watching rugby. That is what I really believe. It is what I love. I am quite ready to play.
Sherratt is determined to follow its principles after being parachute to replace Warren Gatland as the man in Wales, even if only for a short period of time.
Gatland departed from his role on Tuesday, for what Welsh Rugby Union executive, Abi Tierney, was a mutual agreement, after presiding over a minimum record for a proud nation of Rugby of 14 consecutive defeats of evidence.
Gatland's position had become unsustainable. But such is the madness of the Welsh rugby that only 90 minutes after Gatland's departure, Sherratt met at an improvised press conference with Tierney to confirm his new role.
Tierney has commissioned Sherratt to bring back 'Hope'. He will be in charge of the games with Ireland, Scotland and England before returning to their daily work with Cardiff, the team whose training team was using in their Wales presenting and who will train against Connacht on Saturday before joining the Welsh configuration properly.
It is a task for Sherratt, who has a Welsh mother and an English father and still does not know the National Welsh anthem, to assume.
But its attacker rugby brand will be an update welcome of what Wales has produced under Gatland in the last 18 months. Sherratt, 48, is also a popular coach, whose approach to the person has first seen him win admirers wherever he left.
Sherratt has first progressed to teaching and a development role with the RFU of England through Worcester, Bristol, Ospreys and Cardiff to the work of Wales. He only became a chief coach for the first time in Cardiff a little less than two years ago.
Sherratt, seen here with Alun Wyn Jones, was Wales Assistant Coach in 2017
He is a popular coach, whose approach has seen him win admirers wherever he left
“I've been in sport enough to know that it is quite full of potholes,” he said. 'They will never offer you an opportunity when things are going well. It is not something to expect it to happen. It was a surprise.
'My experience is as a teacher and in community coaching. So, having the opportunity to be a senior coach of a fantastic Nation of Rugby and a group of players and staff that I know is quite well is something that I could not reject. ''
Sherratt will not be the long -term successor of the country in Gatland, unless something remarkable happens in the next five weeks. He previously worked as a Welsh assistant in short -term roles in 2016 and 2017 and his work was well received by the players.
On Tuesday, after leaving a club training session, Sherratt revealed his commitment to the capital side of Wales with which he has signed a new agreement.
Although it will have a minimum time with Wales before facing Ireland, it will aim to bring a factor to feel good to the team outside the field and a more attacker approach to it.
“Cardiff had a little minimum when I entered and told Abi, I think the first thing that will begin is the mentality,” said Sherratt, who is universally known as 'jockey' in Welshman's circles because his little stature resembles him of a racing driver.
'I have trained International Rugby before. It will be very difficult to change a lot of technical and tactical amount in what will probably be three or four sessions before playing Ireland.
“I think we can get a change of mentality and have a real emotion in playing international rugby for Wales, no matter what technical and tactical things you put in the field.”
Sherratt will lead his Cardiff Club in his match against Connacht on Saturday before joining Wales to lead the accumulation of Ireland's visit a week later
Sherratt's first decision before the Ireland game will be to decide on the state of the assistant trainers who worked under Gatland
Sherratt's first decisions before Ireland's visit on Saturday will be to decide on the state of attending coaches who worked with Gatland. It is likely that, given the knowledge of Sherratt attack, Rob Howley will depart with the other remaining current staff.
Sherratt could also make changes to the Wales game team. For example, Gatland played Ben Thomas of Cardiff in the middle of the fly in the defeats of France and Italy, but Sherratt has always seen him as a no 12 when he works with him in his club.
Sherratt could also call new players not at the Wales Championship party, such as Gareth Anscombe, Max Llewellyn, Jarrod Evans and Dewi Lake.
When asked if he knew the words of the National Welsh anthem The old land of my parents, Sherratt replied: 'I will be on YouTube tomorrow. I have had two meetings with Cardiff today, execute a session and literally left the field as quickly as I could, which is not very fast, and led here.
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Many people are interested in me that yesterday! It is my first year as a chief coach, but I have been in the game 20 years.
'When I meet the team on Monday morning, they will want to beat Ireland. If I enter there and talk about doing our best and play a good rugby, you have lost the room immediately. We went out to win each game, as in Cardiff.
Even one of the next three games of Wales and Sherratt will be proclaimed a hero given the horrible race of the team under Gatland.
Doing doing seems unlikely, but he is the right man for an emergency situation and does not bet against him causing a surprise in the coming weeks.