Eddie O'Sullivan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But he really should have made that tackle by any metric.
It wasn't a difficult tackle.
He went up and he potted him.
He tried to glom at him.
And Durant just pushed him away and battered him off like a kid.
So that is a worry.
I don't want to be unfair to Sam, but it is a huge flaw in his game, his tackling.
And we give him excuses.
Sometimes we say, he's not the biggest guy, he does his best, but you've got to make that tackle.
Size has nothing to do with that.
And it was a really bad moment.
And that almost...
At the end of the day, it could have cost them the game because he puts Drennan to touch there, or Drennan's put in to touch.
They're coming back for the penalty and end up defending again.
But the point is, your defender was 15 guys in front of the ball.
So I just thought it was a really bad look for him.
And you can't hide from that.
You've got to do better than that.
Yeah, I thought my take on the game was Leinster were comfortable everywhere.
And the pack did exceptionally well.