Gordon D'Arcy

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · URC big preview and how did Ireland throw away victory vs the USA? · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

And I think this is, so it's easy to say, don't take your foot off the throat of the opposition position.

You know, you don't have to be, you don't have to have watched rugby for a very long time

understand that.

But I think sometimes players can nod along to that type of analogy without necessarily knowing what they needed to do differently.

I think that is definitely something that has crept into the game because I'm going to flip into a, like say, a player like Marcus Smith, you know, has been sprung from the New Zealand bench when they're chasing games.

And that's almost...

You know, it's an easy understanding that the game plan hasn't been working or we need to change something and you're kind of throwing caution to the wind and it's usually 50-50 whether that works or doesn't work.

The bit I'm kind of interested in is about, I think it's a lost art.

Well, maybe not a lost art, but it's basically not something that's overly...

overly evident in the modern game, is actually protecting a win.

And

mean that.

I would sometimes have played against teams, an English team, a French team, and there was a high level of frustration from us and from me not being able to find a way to unpick them.

And a lot of that was down to,

where they gave us possession, where they controlled the game and how they controlled the air.

And that's not something you see on a team sheet.

And I think that's something I think is really,

The dynamic as the game has changed, when you're 20 points up, you've prepared your game plan by what you think the opposition are going to do for large parts of the game.

But actually, when you're 20 points up, they have to change.

And we see this all the time.

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