Gordon D'Arcy

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1,219 appearances 11 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · As Leo Cullen prepares for his final season in charge, why haven't Leinster strengthened? · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

But New Zealand are a a a a use case.

So they're playing this wide style of moving the ball away.

But you now have to question New Zealand do they have the ability to to stump up in those close quarters?

Because you can be sure that style of rugby, that wide expanse of rugby, will get you

two knockouts, but we know what wins knockouts.

Front fives win knockouts.

I'm not convinced by Reuben Love.

So I I think David Rennie has looked at it and just was said that Bowden Bart is not the player he was a little bit what I said about um James Lowe, he's not the player he was twelve months ago, let alone twenty-four months ago.

So they need to find an alternative, but I don't think that Ruben Love is as good as Bowden Bart would have been twelve, twenty-four months ago.

I think New Zealand are in that position where they're trying to develop a new way of playing, that more New Zealand identity of creating more one on ones, which sounds good on paper.

You've got a coach like Tony Brown in there, of course they're going to it's going to be it's going to become part of the game.

And I suppose that's the and I think we talked about this when he was appointed as coach, that is the existential threat of New Zealand that if they added a little bit more continuity to their power game, uh

Jesus, they could be devastating.

But my view on watching that series was it is going to be easier for big powerful teams to shut down New Zealand than it has been in the past.

And I mean in the kind of professional era, I don't think they have the same level of game breakers that they had previously.

And they definitely don't have a tight five.

I saw a great piece somewhere where there was a comment about we have taken Brody Ritalic and White Lock for granted.

Because I don't think second rows get quite the applaudits they get for the how instrumental they are in the in the overall architecture and performance in a game.

And when you have functioning pair like that, you go back to Ireland at our pomp, you can go to Pauly, Donica, Malo Kelly being like intrinsic to that.

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