Gordon D’Arcy
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1,870 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Gordon D’Arcy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can do it without out and out paint.
You can, but it's so much easier.
It is so much easier when you get it to width and all of a sudden you've got somebody who can run, who only needs half a yard or a yard.
Like that's the thing that Irish rugby has been lacking and we're not going to go back down this rabbit hole.
But there is an element of that is something that's missing from the Irish DNA.
Make them hesitate, make them think.
Yeah, I think I think that's it.
I think he can scrummage.
He's done remarkably well.
Like, I mean, when you think I think in September, he was still working as a sales rep and Vodafone.
So on Friday, obviously, he plays in the UFC grand final.
He plays against probably the top scrummaging side out of international rugby, certainly in the world.
He will play against two stellar tighthead props.
And I think, yeah, they have invested in him and his ability to be resilient and hang in there and hang in the fight and scrummage.
Alex Lusinov won't be 21 until July the 10th, I think, sometime around then anyway.
So he's a 20-year-old loosehead, lots of ability, good character, tremendous potential, all that sort of stuff.
So...
what I'm sure Leinster are hoping for is that they reduce.
And I mean, in an ideal world, you reduce the number of scrums and you take away one of the strengths because I was on a zoom call with Easton Osoa and Victor Matfield and 70% of the questions that were coming from South African journalists were about how dominant the bull scrum could potentially be.
Andrew Porter's injury, the fact that the bulls have a brilliant scrum and Victor Matfield was pointing to this as well.
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