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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It would be unfair.
I think the way they've been coached this season, you are what you do every day.
And they are exactly what they're trying to do, what they do every day.
I don't think they moved away from it.
Even the try, you can still see the pivot pass to Prendergast and the second wave of attack to Jamie Osborne.
He gets it to Ioane.
But Leinster aren't particularly good in the air, so they've been kicking a lot all season.
Even though they're not particularly good in the air, they don't play in the middle part of the field at all, ever.
And they box kicking off a lot, even though they're not particularly good at competing in the air.
I think I said this before a couple of weeks ago, it's very hard to find out exactly what Leinster are very good at, apart from being hard to beat.
And Saturday would have been no different for me.
how much more threatening he looks when he's the second receiver rather than the first if that makes sense when he has that extra split second behind whoever it is doing the pullback be it osborne be it a forward i mean this might be every out half ever but he just looks well how much did it actually threaten scored one try of it how much did it now up until the point where they there were two players down and even then the storm is still where a couple of moments where they're like oh sugar if we had one more player here we'd probably score a try
I think it looks good without delivering a huge amount, if I'm honest.
They can't move away from the system they've put in place because it would just be too, you would just get caught between half a player is adopting a new system, half a player is having an old system and everybody's brain just gets scrambled.
So you just have to stick with it.
How many other teams that are attacking well are using a pivot system?
You look at Northampton, Harlequin is probably not a good example, but you look at
Any of the French teams in the top four, top six, they're not doing mad big pivot plays.
They're playing with the 10 in the front line.
So 9 is still the main tempo driver.
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