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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okay and then they play the next game they play okay for 40 minutes or 60 minutes get taken off somebody else comes in and plays brilliant for 20 minutes oh now you get promoted to the to the first stop it's really hard to do anything with that
Yeah, and I guess the players have to push for selection.
Sometimes you just actually have to go, OK, well, he suits the style we want to play or they suit the style they need to play.
And it's not...
And you kind of have to take that Andy Farrell approach to it and just go, okay, we're just backing them.
And we say, we've settled on this, bar some massive individual shocker that you kind of have to go, we have to stay with this thing.
And I wouldn't say you could pinpoint Harry Byrne in the final and go, he was the reason that the attack fell apart.
I think he was as good as everybody that was on the field, equally as bad as everybody that was on the field.
So what's the rationale then for going, okay, well, you're out against the Stormers?
It's unlikely to be an issue this time around, bar the Bulls catching them cold.
But you're looking next season going...
Deciding on Harry Byrne or Sam Prandegast doesn't fix the attacking inadequacies.
So they're really going to have to have a look at how they attack and how they structure their attack.
Actually, structure would be the wrong word, how they approach their attack.
It's just regressed so much over the last three or four years.
You're looking at this going, they really need to start fast-tracking some academy players into the first team and actually taking risks with them.
I was kind of looking at Munster and you look at the players that are being forced to come through their academy.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
I was kind of half-hoping Tom Wood might have started that last game.
just to see like you know what JJ Hanrahan is going to do and that conservativeness you're kind of going okay well Tom Wood has done he's done a little bit he's done has he done enough is this a you know and that's a brave coaching decision to throw someone like him in and go okay well this is your sink or swim moment but there's no good or bad in it if you do well great if you don't do well it's still good because you've got experience we're going to have that experience banked for next year
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