One week, goodbye Cardiff.
The next, hello Dunedin.
That has been the story for the Highlanders' new analyst, Andy Watts, who started with the franchise last week and arrived in time for the side's win over the Blues last Saturday night.
Watts (30) replaces Chris Lapage, who resigned for personal reasons.
Watts is a Welshman, although he was born just over the border in Hereford in England.
He is married to a Dunedin girl, Leah (nee Crosby), and with two children, Seren (6) and Petra (3), the family were keen to come to New Zealand.
Watts was the analyst for the Cardiff Blues team in Wales for seven and a-half years and it is the only job he has ever known.
He left school a keen squash player and one of his squash coaches was involved in the sports science course at the University of Wales, Cardiff, so he enrolled.
After three years' study he graduated and, straight away, joined the Cardiff Blues. He was involved in that outfit until earlier this month.
''I just sent my CV out here and if the opportunity came up here, I would love to work in the Super 15. One of the former Blues players, [former Hurricanes lock] Paul Tito, was handing my CV around and this opportunity came about,'' he said.
''We always wanted to come to New Zealand but to come back to Dunedin, to where my wife comes from, is pretty lucky. You couldn't have asked for anything better, really.''
An analyst is seen these days as a vital part of the coaching team in professional sport.
He provides data to the coaches during the week - how players are training and what they are doing well in and not performing so well in.
He is also scouting the opposition, with video of the team stripped down into various set pieces and phase play.
He also sits in the coach's box during the game, giving the coach information on where the team is performing, both good and bad.
There is a lot of data to work through.
''Over the last seven, eight years that I have been involved, it had developed so much. The amount of data you can provide during and after a game is so much more than what it used to be.
"As soon as a game is finished, you start inputting key areas of the game to provide the data for the coaching team and see how the players performed.''
Every Super 15 side has an analyst and they have access to three different views of the game each week.
Watts said it was too soon to notice any marked differences between rugby in Wales and New Zealand.
But he is glad to be in New Zealand.
''It was tough to leave there [Cardiff], as it was the only job I had ever had, really. But when this opportunity came along, it was a no-brainer, really. I could not turn it down.''
His family are due to join him in Dunedin next month.
