Gordon D’Arcy

James Ryan, brilliant.

Just has great timing.

entry into into rucks and i'd say joe mccarthy probably not as good but joe mccarthy has lots of other strengths um like james ryan can't carry the ball the way you say joe mccarthy can but say tyke burn not prolific rucker but his timing over the steel we used to spend an

team skills as opposed to individual skills and now I'd say the balance has kind of shifted a little bit more into unit skills and not as much team skills so things like that rucking continuity like that was probably 60 70 percent of our training when we were 15 16 17.

Can you go to tackle school to get your hand reduced?

Yeah, that's fairly soft.

You're kind of looking at that going, oh, this is when the system does not work well.

If South Africans are quiet, then they know they've gotten away with something.

Come on, the Gunners.

They've got two weeks to find some miracles.

I was rambling about Prendergast in behind the rook and trying to kind of swing either way

I think that's usually predicated on a pullback pass from a forward.

So he's got two passes in the sequence before he gets the ball.

Whereas you look at Feinberg, so there's one pass and then he's moving.

And I think when Frawley came on and moved to 10, he's much more inclined to attack the line.

And I think Leinster looked a little bit more direct.

With Prendergast, I think having those two passes predicated

Prior to him getting the ball, while obviously that gets him a certain amount of movement and shape him in behind, I think defences have figured out how to read that because the forwards are never really going to engage the line the same way as a 10 or an outside back.

Same point.

I think it's going to be a tough preseason for him.