Gordon D'Arcy
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5 series
first heard Jun 2026
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It's too small of a subset of games to draw any sort of meaningful conclusion from.
But it does feed into the same kind of a narrative that happened within New Zealand and South Africa.
And I wonder, is that kind of setting the scene for the season ahead?
that with the way the game has gone in the last two or three years, that really one of the big influences on games, influences on how you're going to play your game is going to be around the tight five.
Because everything that you're talking about there, the ability for Ireland to keep playing, the ability for New Zealand to keep playing, it's predicated on a functioning tight five.
And when you have bigger, stronger human beings that are able to win collisions and win malls, the balance seems to have shifted that way considerably over the last kind of 24 months.
it's probably the oldest adage in sport as well.
the concentration element probably switched off a little bit.
When you're 20-odd points up, you've played well, that complacency can creep in.
We've seen it so many times in games, and I think that's...
That's probably the biggest learning that they will have from that.
They're not a team that will be able to, I suppose, rest on their laurels and just rely on players.
In the way that kind of, you know, the top one, two or three teams can usually, they can coast into it.
I'd
for the Irish, they're probably going to be looking at that going, OK, well, if that is, if there's a, and I hate that word, learning from it, but if there's a rocket...
From that experience of going, okay, well, we need to find a way to stay focused for 80 minutes.
That
dreams to me a little bit.
And that goes into that individual responsibility piece.
Well, I think that even that, John, I just had a thought percolating there in my little noodle while you were talking.
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