Gordon D’Arcy
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And you're not going to make him into a Jack Crowley type defender.
We don't need him to.
All you just need him to do is to be a little bit better than he is.
But that's going to take a little bit of time.
The biggest disappointment for me was the falling over when he took the kick and looking to try and milk a penalty or a card or something.
And that's a poor decision from a really young kid.
I can think back to many of the poor decisions I made as a kid, but I would have always had somebody pull me aside, like Keith Wood, put an arm around and just like, no, we don't do that.
It kind of needs a little bit of that now.
Senior player to kind of have a little chat and just go, don't do that again.
Because you forget how young and inexperienced he is.
Like, I don't think I've ever played with a player that fell easily or something like that.
It's all about DNA of rugby.
It's about showing no weakness, not falling over.
You think back to, like, Sexton playing in the 2015 World Cup and what France tried to do to him.
They're going, like, that's the bar.
If you're going to base yourself off of a player like him, you don't just get to be angry with players.
And, you know, just, yeah, look angry.
You've got to live and breathe it.
And that means...
every side of it so yeah I was a little bit disappointed with that because I just went it's a young kid really inexperienced and maturity wise still a bit to go but with all the pressure that's on him and focus on him and the negative stuff why would you ever in a month of Sundays do that maybe a sign of a player under pressure and