Brett Igoe
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493 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Brett Igoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you go through, we had something like 55 or 54, 55% possession and it looks really impressive.
But if your possession is not really going forward and it's a bit like Barcelona playing football where we just kind of pass the ball around the back and we keep possession for the sake of keeping possession.
So it took 19 phases to score that first try.
If you go through the tap play that we played just outside our own 22 in the last minute of the first half,
There's phase after phase where, yeah, we've got across the halfway line.
We were eventually picked off at that intercept.
Well, that's phase after phase of keep ball, keep ball.
My concern would be that the phase set up and the shape set up isn't really a threat to the defense.
So when you go through Bordeaux and watch them again, they have a tackler, that's it, a tackler, that's it.
Whereas Leinster are resourcing rooks with four or five bodies.
And if you put it really, really simple, the resourcing four of your team means you've got 11 people ready for your next attack.
One of them is your nine.
So essentially, you've now got 10 attackers.
They have one person in the tackle.
That's against 15.
So you've turned the game into 15 versus 10.
I know there's two in the backfield, but the front line now is 13 in the line and 10 attackers.
They have the numbers all the time.
And I just think we didn't really find that solution.
And on the rewatch again, the amount of times we created two on twos,
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