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Alan Quinlan

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618 total appearances

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

I think in games like that, Colm, you've got to look at what you can be better at and some of the defensive mistakes that they probably made for the Italian tries.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

And that's nitpicking.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

But that's what sport is about.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

You've got to find ways of... It's a completely different opponent this week.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

You can't make defensive errors like they did last week and be a little bit soft and switch off because France will go the length of the field and score and punish you.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

So I think that's what they've got to focus on.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

And just there's a little bit of an edge to them.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

There's a little bit of a physical edge, which is good.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

And that's probably where they've come up short in the last few years, aside from, you know, making errors.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

But I mean, just that physical presence.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

Rugby is a physical game and...

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

Just being able to mix it and make those hits and when they carry, their accuracy first of all at the breakdown and then there's a physical presence there.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

But I think Aoife Wafer and Erin King, obviously Aoife Wafer got a number of tries last week.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

She was very prominent, so was Erin King.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

But I think the English game, they were...

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

They were, you know, feeling their way back into it and getting the pace and tempo of international rugby.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

They need big games.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

There are big players, you know, Dorothy Wall coming back in.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

She's got to be really, really, you know, prominent.

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ALAN QUINLAN: "Not their most flamboyant or exciting win!" | France vs Ireland preview | Leinster team

Kleena Maloney.