Gordon D'Arcy
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And I think that fed into how they played.
And Leinster never really needed, Leinster were never really stressed.
I thought Scrum Half, Pepier?
Ambrose Pepier, yeah.
Pepier, okay, well, I've actually surprised myself.
I thought he was incredibly poor at the fundamentals of a Scrum Half job.
which was box kicking.
I thought his box kicking was absolutely abysmal.
And that is so fundamental to a set piece, heavy, tight five driven game.
So I lost count at about six when I was looking at there going, that's a, that's a two out of 10 kick.
And, you know, when you look at the players they had competing for it and Leinster are not historically and
I say when I say historically, the last couple of years and this year, they're not very good in the air.
And like, you're not even firing a shot in that key driver of transition phase, which they are very, very good at.
You look at the transition for when Sam Prendergast had to make that intervention in the UK.
in the bottom corner when he beat the two players to the ball.
And, you know, a big pat on the back for Sam Brandegast for dropping it into second and getting there.
But that transition play was quite a key part of what the Bulls do and what's that African rugby do really well.
But when your number nine can't place a box kick and he was under no pressure, you know, a really poor piece.
You've got Willy LaRue having a horror show
Pollard never really got into the game.