Gordon D'Arcy
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Do you know what it kind of struck out to me?
It was a little bit like the Champions Cup final.
Very heavily one-sided.
One team never, never showed up, never got off the bus, never got off the plane for the Bulls in the Bulls case.
And the team is better equipped, kind of just took more advantage.
So Bulls had more disadvantage coming into it.
Those Leinster going into the Champions Cup final were heavily underdogged.
So, yeah, it kind of just felt a little bit like that.
If things went Leinster's way, they always had that in the back pocket.
You wanted the Bulls to get off the flight and to really show up.
That passage, maybe 65 to 75 minutes, where you're looking at that going...
If the Bulls were able to deliver that for 50 minutes, what would the game have been like?
What I'm feeling is for the Bulls to be able to do that, it needs to be in South Africa.
The overarching thing that I have in the back of my head, kind of rooting around, is if anybody's watching the State of Origin, I've been following Andrew John's fundatory and it's just been eye-opening.
It brings me really back to the fundamental time I started playing rugby and started thinking about rugby.
One of the overarching comments he's talked about is talking about the jump from club rugby to State of Origin.
Stuff that gets you away at club rugby won't get you to, you won't get away with it at the state of origin.
You have to be better, you have to be a better coach, you have to be better prepared, you have to be all these things because you're playing against better players.
And in this instance, I think a lot of the Bulls players, a lot of key individuals had really, really poor games.