but this season there has been so much more to his game than those mighty spiral kicks and long-range penalties and drop goals.
Healy is still in his first year as a professional, after three years in the academy, and Larkham has clearly been invaluable. If the 22-year-old has been like a sponge in soaking up information, one imagines he’ll soak up every little morsel from the former World Cup-winning, Super Rugby-winning, Australian hall of fame outhalf in his last season with Munster.
“One of the first things I noticed with Steve early on was that he’s not afraid to break the rules in terms of what you are told growing up. Little things, like you are always told to run square or run straight as an outhalf for example, whereas he’ll tell you that in different situations you need to be able to drift on to the pass, you need to be able to cut under the pass. In terms of passing in wet conditions, he’s got little cues.
“But that was probably the first thing that struck me with him, and I was able to learn that pretty quickly – that you need to be able to break the rules.