Gordon D’Arcy
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And that will come from the defensive intensity.
We'll see at the start.
So we have to look at that and just go...
they can't get drawn into an arm wrestle with too long.
They've got to come out of the blocks fast.
defensive intensity which needs to be a lot better than it was on saturday based on what you're saying massively like but they also need they also need key players back they need joe mccarthy they need james ryan you know these are why you want the big guys uh the big names uh for the for these matches you know if it's not uh tag furlong uh clarkson has to has to put in a serious shift so leinster have the potential to look a little bit light in the tight five
And that is a worry against a very, very big Toulon pack.
So yeah, they need a little bit of fortune to go their way this week.
Every game we've talked about it and next week again.
It kind of like frustrates me.
It's like we make a very complicated game really, really complicated.
Very simple game.
No, it's a very complicated game.
Oh, okay, go on then.
We'll make it way more complicated.
When you try to explain rugby to kids that haven't watched it, it's bizarrely complicated.
We made a really good fist of making it even more complicated.
Get quick rucks over the game line and then you just attack space.
We've moved so far away from that, but paramount to that is a really rigid, really rugged type five.
You need scrums, you need line outs, but you also need, and that's why I suppose I mentioned Edwin McDogbo in his impact at Rooks.