Darius McNaughton
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174 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Darius McNaughton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that was a pretty decent Scotland performance as well.
and you know they're missing maybe 10 players in that squad and you're like oh god so maybe it's a less of an issue with south africa because they have that depth and not just they have the depth they put it into practice as well and if those players are international rugby ready uh so i don't know it's hard to know like
Listen to Grace Davitt there with Ireland and players getting rotated and stuff like that.
Some of it can probably be done a little bit better, but some of it is by necessity.
You look at a guy like James Gibson-Park, who, again, played on that line sore, has been a key cog for Leinster, does get rested a bit for Leinster because they have the capacity to do that with their depth.
But for Ireland, he's just absolutely crucial.
We're a different team without him.
Craig Casey's a guy who probably hasn't kicked on too much over the last couple of years.
Nathan Doak is only starting out as an international so they can't really throw him in there and play 60-70 minutes and test rugby so a guy like him Andy Farrell probably feels like he can't trap him in these big games you need him there and so that that
There's a couple of issues there, you know, in terms of, you know, he is 33, I think, or 34 now.
So at some point you do need to bring someone else through.
But there's also the thing of that he's a 33-year-old rugby player that's playing, you know, 70, 80 minutes in big games.
He played 80 minutes against Australia.
And that's extremely rare in modern rugby if you're nine to stay on for the whole game because you have someone on the bench.
Pretty much, like, pretty much.
Yeah, yeah.
Because he's a rare case in modern rugby that the keys of the attack have been given to him, you know, that he's kind of the base of everything we do.
So when he comes off or when he's not playing, we do look slightly different.
Yeah, it's a weird one to get around because rugby's in a place where it needs to be marketed better and...
to market something better you probably need more of it and being out there and you need bigger games and you need them more often because there was conversations I think it was pre-2023 that we don't see enough of Ireland versus South Africa we don't see enough of Ireland versus New Zealand now that we've got it it's like oh shit we've too many games
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