It varies a little bit if you’re on site or off site. If you’re on-site you want to get in early and head up to the commentary box and start doing all your technical checks.

You’ll meet up with the Director and take a look at the different graphics that you’ll have on the broadcast – like the order of play, the draw, etc – so you can familiarise yourself with all the main talking points. You’ll do a little run through of everything that you’re going to see and make sure all the sound is working properly so you can hear them and most importantly, they can hear you.

Then you might go for a bit of a wander around the stadium to see who you can bump into, whether it’s a team captain, a player, or even a coach to get any sort of insight on the nominations. For some teams it might be glaringly obvious but in a competition like this, you will spend the night before prepping for each member of the team so you can put together any combination that might turn up.

Once the nominations are out, it’s a bit of a mad scramble to look through all the various stats and look at the players’ head-to-head records. Ahead of a normal competition you know X will play Y, but here it can be a bit of a rush to get everything ready once they are announced.

You’ll then head up to the commentary box and you just get absolutely absorbed in the match with whoever you’re working with. It’s amazing how you just get lost in it, like you’re in your own little bubble.

It’s a little bit like Groundhog Day – but in a good way – because once you’ve finished you’re straight on to preparing for the next tie and going through the process again, but it’s great fun!