Gordon D’Arcy

You are what you do every day.

So this has been my argument.

It's not a tap you can turn on, you know, where you're encouraging players to drop out of the front line as early as you possibly can to get back so you can actually have four people in the backfield to try and pass the ball.

But you also have to work bloody hard early to get back there to be a viable option in a counterattack.

When was the last time Leinster scored a counterattacking try?

But it's not, it's not something that jumps to mind.

So transition turnovers.

And this is where, you know, Leinster just looked short of a player or two.

And this is obviously why Ireland are successful because the next thing I'm going to say, if you look at, say, Ty Burr, the type of interventions he has in games, turnovers and then

invariably when he gets a turnover or when he's involved in a turnover first thing he does is throw the ball wide so sounds simple but players get used to having someone like that in their team and they go as soon as he gets it they're always like oh he might have that you drop back five or six meters because they're going I might get this

Do Leinster have a player like that?

Probably not.

So if we have all the type of same players that think the same and play the same and do the same, you need to break that groupthink.

And that's what Gibson Park has done for years and that's what James Lowe has done.

But that's why Geordie Barrett was so powerful when he was in last year.

But that's what a Ryan Baird does.

But then we're also in the danger of if you don't facilitate a player like that, Ryan Baird goes off on a run and people aren't reacting to him and he gets turned over and then suddenly you're going, oh,

Should he not do that or should players get there quicker?

You end up in that thing.

So that's where you have to break the mold a little bit.