Gordon D’Arcy
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1,870 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Gordon D’Arcy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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really good place.
You talk about that Munster attitude that they had when they were at their peak in the 2000s where they just created that feeling that nobody backed them and they had that chip on their shoulder and they loved that underdog's mindset.
I think Leinster have embraced it a little bit.
I don't necessarily think it's an underdog mindset.
I think they have embraced the fact that people have written them off
I mean... No, but I think it's more fundamental than a siege mentality.
That is... Siege mentality is... That's a team under pressure.
That's a team that are scrapping for... You know, you could say that about Wales.
That's a siege mentality.
This is a team who's on the cusp of winning.
It's more fundamental than that.
Yeah, I think you have to channel it a little bit more than just, you know, being angry.
The days of the look at the newspaper column up on the changing room walls and sell tape to it going, this is what they're saying about us and that's enough to get you over the...
to get you over the line, that's short of the stereotypical GAA manager shouting at players 15 minutes before they go out and lads headbutting the waltz.
That's not what we're talking about here for this game.
I think that drive to succeed is channeling the disappointment of the last five or six years
into something more than just trying to win a final.
So it's that bigger purpose.
And I think that's where they've got it, that bigger focus, which is around this is more than just winning the final.
This is about rewriting the history books, all of those things.
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