Midway through Jamison Gibson-Park's first season at Leinster, we wondered whether he would take Luke McGrath's place or end up holding on to his coattails.
He had left Wellington to escape the shadow of TJ Perenara at the Hurricanes. To be honest, Perenara blocked a lot of light. He was bigger and stronger than Gibson-Park, a man who was hard to miss, a physical fighter who knew how to get over the line when it mattered. Perenara was part of the All Blacks World Cup-winning squad in 2015. He was the man.