Ryan Baird: I've learnt to be like Bruce Lee and go with the flow
When it's not always raining, there'll be days like this.
When there's no one complaining, there'll be days like this.
Days like when you create a try for Craig Casey with a deliciously delayed Snymanesque offload. Days like when you pinch three Georgian balls at the front of the lineout and disrupt another. Had there been a man-of-the-match award, there was every chance that Baird would have pinched that, too.
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