Eddie O'Sullivan
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I don't know Noel really that well, but I know of him.
And I know he's a technically very good coach.
He could be the key for their willingness.
If he puts together a game plan to crack the Blitz, and the thing that worries me is that I've been saying this all season, someday some coach is going to come up with a really, really smart structured attack, a game plan to beat a Blitz.
And if it clicks, we know the Blitz is all or nothing.
And if he gets thrown numbers around the corner with their wings, I mean, it's curtains.
So Noel McNamara could be the piece of the jigsaw that undoes Leinster.
No, if Bordeaux don't put a really good game plan together, the blitz works on that basis that the other team are not sure what they're doing against it.
And then you pick them off.
So that to me would be a very interesting watch.
But I do think Noel McNamara is a very smart coach.
Interestingly, you saw one of Benetton's tries last weekend was exactly how to break a blitz.
It was a spot off a second receiver, took it around the corner and scored.
So to me, my worry for Leinster on their defense is the team they play on any given day.
Yeah.
come up with the right game plan to crack that defence.
And then there's a lot of line breaks at wide.
Now, what Leinster do against line breaks very statistically, they scramble brilliantly.
It's the turn and burn.
It's turn and burn and reel them in.