Gordon D’Arcy

Building shape, building shape.

And ironically, the thing that undid them was the fact they had no shape in the last passage of play.

And Prendergast just pops it to, I think it was Frawley, who runs aimlessly, isolatedly into defence and nobody reacts around him.

And they get turned over and the penalty given up against them.

So this is the thing that's often frustrated me with a lot of the Leinster carries is it is usually a static player.

being past the ball from Gemma Gibson-Park and then trying to generate momentum into the contact.

Whereas you look at what Dan Sheehan does.

So Dan Sheehan's running and he's almost running sideways along the defenders and then straightens up into the pass.

But what's really fun about that is, and really important about that is,

The defenders can't come forward until Gibson Park releases the pass.

So Dan Sheehan wins that by the fact that he is already moving onto the ball.

And he decides that he times his change-up straight and to go between two defenders off of Gemma Gibson's park.

I've always wondered, why would you not, as a forward, want to be carrying the ball?

Because the defenders can't, they're not going to stand two metres back

and try and get their timing off the attacking scrum halves pass.

But as a forward, you can decide, you can go back three meters and start running and generate that momentum.

It's a funny one, but I just thought it was a really good example from Dan Sheehan of like,

what actual timing like what Pollock does for that Northampton game when he just slid through our defensive line because he ran he was running for about 5 or 6 metres before he got the ball

That's not something that is an innate skill.

That is absolutely coachable.