Gordon D’Arcy
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And he said, you can't do that because it's not a tackle.
Or you can't just lie on the ground to stop someone.
Anyway, I thought it could have gone the other way.
But yeah, there's lots of examples of where you were there.
And particularly that try because it was a line break.
It was going through.
It was, you're like, oh, you're definitely going to score.
And then it's like, oh, no, you're not.
But it changes the whole
dynamic of the game.
And this will feed into the broader conversations with the URC over the weekend.
Momentum is a massive beast in rugby.
They're seven points up with the yellow card.
One of those tries stick and it changes the whole dynamic of that half.
And when you're up against a bigger team, you need all those things to go your way.
It reminded me of when Ireland were playing against France in the early 2000s.
Did we really have a chance competitive for 60 minutes, but would have needed everything to go your way and invariably stuff doesn't go your way?
There's a couple of things to that, I would say, Nathan.
The important fix is getting the basics right so you can build on to all these things.
So that's the next layer of growth.