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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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Leinster into another final, but are their fans buying into their URC run? · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

We took plenty of shots to the back of your shoulders, back of your necks.

But my head was also completely U-shaped.

So I was able to hold my weight because I'm not very tall.

I used to be able to get over into a position where I'd get over the ball, beat defenders into that space, beat rookers into that space.

But I had my head fully, I wasn't looking up.

You can clear me out here.

I've got like you're lifting something.

What do they say?

Like knees, hips, shoulders, knees.

Lift with your knees, not with your back.

I wasn't giving them a place.

I was fully curled over.

And the only way to hit me was to come basically under in and then kind of hit up or to the crock row that came in as a result of it.

So everybody on the defending team that goes into rucks now, and you can argue the toss whether they're supporting their weight.

Anybody whose hands touch the ground isn't supporting their weight.

So if you look at Rowan Keller, he looked like he was more or less supporting his weight.

But if you give them that immunity from contact, because there is no way you can hit him otherwise, we're killing the rook.

And I don't know what the solution is for the players going into it.

Maybe you get rid of Jackling if there's two people in the rook.

And then the counter is that if you don't have a contester in from the opposition, if you don't have a defender in contesting at the Rook, they just fan out across the field.

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