Gordon D’Arcy

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1,870 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · What to make of Andy Farrell's Ireland squad to tour Australia and New Zealand · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

And if you have a big gap, and Gordon touched on it there, say Jamison Gibson-Park tears a hamstring, all of a sudden it's now you're running around and it's a kind of chopping and changing situation.

And we've seen it in the provinces where it's either or for positions.

One player gets in, plays okay for a match and a half, doesn't play well for the second half of the second match.

drops out, they replace him with another player.

He comes in and plays well for a match and a half.

And it's kind of an either or.

The worst case scenario is that either or situation in selection terms.

You want a pecking order.

You want your best player.

You want somebody pushing him really, really hard as backup.

But we don't have that with Ireland.

And I think while it can be very strong, they can be very strong if everybody's fit and firing.

I think that there are holes in the, if you like, in the roster beneath Ireland.

And I'm glad to see that somebody like Sean Jansen gets his opportunity.

And Sam Miller, again, we've spoken about him on the podcast, and I think he gets an opportunity.

What might have gone under the radar a little bit here is that Finlay Beelum is the player that misses out.

I think it depends on what he wants from this.

The other thing that we didn't identify, which was probably the first question, is what do you think that Ireland need to or want to achieve from the Nations Championship in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer?

So if Andy Farrell goes and says, I want to win all three matches down there because winning is good for culture, it's what I want to do, then he's picked a squad to try and do that.

What we're talking about is...

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