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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that's one of the challenges with all your players coming through a school system but like you just we just don't produce props in the fashion of south africans or even ty furlong or andrew porter two absolute anomalies that have come through and same with kianili like an anomaly that came through the system the system gave him very little you'd say the same with porter and furlong they were just naturally gifted athletes
There's a very small subset of games for all of those players.
It's an unknown quantity.
They look like they have the raw materials, but the problem we have and we still have in this Irish system is when they come into professional rugby, it still takes them two or three seasons to get up.
You have a development period in the Irish system rather than that physical development happening at, say, 18 or 19 because they've been scrummaging since they were young.
12 or 13 so it's still still the same same piece could they would they be able to stand on their own two feet in a game like that maybe maybe not the point i'm trying to make is the props props tend to develop much much later in the irish system absolutely yeah especially when it's it's we've had this conversation 100 times but it's a point worth making
In no short way, the reason why he's doing really well is because he's playing AIL every week and has to scrummage.
So you can argue the toss and say, well, it's not at a really high level, but he's come into a really high level now and he's scrummaging every week and he's doing okay.
just about enough it's the same observations defence set before the Leinster attack and the Leinster attack did very little to and they didn't win collisions so then they don't get quick ball but it's also got to the point even when they got quick ball they didn't really know what to do with it bar Jemison Gibson Park picking and creating the tempo in around there so do you know what I thought it was a
Really odd game because it scored the opening try and that was fine.
It took a long time for it to score despite all the pressure.
And you were looking at that going, OK, can't break this down.
So that type of game they're playing against a bigger pack, they struggle because they lose collisions.
And then Caelan D'Arce took three points.
And then started kicking for the corner.
Kevin Darius had one of his best games.
He's one of the few guys who was winning the collision.
But I didn't see any rationale for moving away from taking points.
But yet they did.
Didn't get it until the Stormers' discipline evaporated.
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