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 · Where do Leinster and Ulster go from here? · 26 May 2026 podcast

So when you sit down with your squad, when you're a player and you're sitting there and the coach comes in and you try to sum up the season and you look for the

You look for the positive in the season and what next year holds.

And you give the key messages and say what you expect from them.

And there's the physical stuff and everything like that.

But I've been there, I've sat in that changing room and I've had a coach and I have not believed a word they've said.

I'm just like, this guy's bluffing.

He's saying what he wants to say and he's saying the right things, but I don't believe him.

But I've also been in that changing room when the coach is saying the things that you believe yourself and it resonates really powerfully and you finish the season.

So even though it's not perfect, you know you're training in the right way.

So we would have had that with Cheka for a number of years before ultimately winning in 2009.

So I think, you know, this is a really good season for Ulster.

Yeah, he's not Stu McCluskey.

So yeah, all the little, all the little things when you are the underdog going in, you need everything to go perfectly.

And it didn't.

But that's okay.

They didn't, they didn't completely wilt, didn't go into the silk.

They still kept playing.

They got carried out in their shield.

As I said, scored tries.

I was talking with my one of my neighbors and he plays tennis and he was talking about he lost his tennis match was there at least maybe you won your tennis match and say somebody could have won this weekend I said no he said I said I don't mind losing he said I played horrific I said that's the bit that killed me and the previous week he said I won but I also played bad there can be a comfort in performance

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