Plenty of changes have been made in the 16 year since Ferris played at the World Cup.
Nine years on from injury enforced retirement, Ferris has recalled the days when Ireland's professional rugby players were training on bog-like school pitches in preparation for the biggest tournament of them all, the World Cup.
The grass was way above our ankles, we had flooded pitches, our scrummaging machine was sinking. We were getting a bus half an hour from the team hotel to Bray school, and then back again. "The coaching set-up, coming into the Joe Schmidt era which I experienced. And now Andy Farrell and his team.Ferris admits the rise of Irish rugby shouldn't come as a massive surprise.
"I always say to Peter O'Mahoney that he's never thanked me for having the career he's had. Pete won his first cap with me.
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