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Published 12:58 17 Mar 2018 GMT
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"I never once got in my boat and said, 'right you're part of Great Britain'. I can't be held responsible for it. It's an easy motivation factor for other sides because of the long, entrenched history. It's very difficult for us to feel the same. If you know your history we are partly to blame. I try to approach my life in sport with passion, intensity and a desire to come out on top and win, but I don't hate anyone."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/974990997124976642 While England's formidable home record may be seen as a considerable obstacle for Ireland to overcome, Haskell insists that form won't matter when it comes to the visit of Ireland.
“I don’t want to burst any bubbles here,” Haskell said. “There is the comfort of being at home on your territory where you know the crowd will be on your side for the most part. But because we travel all the time it doesn’t really matter where we are playing or what the records are. “When you sit at dinners, people are saying, ‘you must think this’, or, ‘you must think that’, but you don’t really. We are so focused on turning up, training, playing and trying to put a big performance in that it does not really matter where you train or play. For the most part it is background noise. “We have loads of people who watch training here, you completely zone them out – it is the same at Twickenham. It is only when you have a stop in play, or they play the big screen or you have been a naughty boy that you are aware of what’s going on.”
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