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Published 14:29 23 Jan 2015 GMT
Updated 08:02 24 Jan 2015 GMT
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Reddan quickly stepped into Matt Dawson's boots as Wasps' starting scrum-half. The club, he feels, was six or seven years ahead of their competitors when it came to strength and conditioning, and fitness, work. He won his first Heineken Cup with the club, in 2007, and captained them for a large portion of their league-winning 2007/08 season.
He returned to Ireland in 2009 with a switch to Leinster and prospered there - winning two more Heineken Cups, two league titles and a Challenge Cup. On Saturday, Reddan and Leinster take on Wasps at their new ground [the Ricoh Arena] in Coventry.
'Wasps coming in was massive,' he comments. 'I was going to retire but everything that has happened since then [three Heineken Cup wins, 58 Ireland caps] has been down to one or two coaches seeing something in me and having a gamble. Hopefully, on both sides, it paid off.'
'I enjoyed my time there,' he adds. 'I'll always feel indebted to the club. Great club, great fans but I'll have to put that aside for the weekend.'Brilliant footage shows Toulon doing training drills on Dublin street ahead of Leinster loss
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