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 · Where do Ireland go from here? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

There isn't a rook here.

There's three Kiwis on the ground and there's me and the scrum half and you're saying, I can't go for it.

I'm here before the scrum half.

And it was called like, no poach, no poach.

And it kind of grew as the game went on.

Now, I think it was equally bad to both teams in that regard.

It was a funny interpretation of the breakdown, wasn't it?

But equally, I do wonder if the fact we're seeing... Peter O'Mahony probably would have spent a lot more time in the bin if we were as binary as that.

I think you would have that for a piece, right?

But what you have is you have players like Tygburn and their rugby smart or their rugby IQ is just, it's at a different level to everybody else on that pitch.

People like Geordie Barrett as well, like Artie Sevilla, they're less than you would think.

And I think it's where we've ended up in that we're all trying to create certainty in a very dynamic game, which doesn't.

So players kind of almost cede their responsibility to the ref or keep going until the ref says stop.

And that's the kind of line in the sand, which is just wildly stupid.

So like when you're Geordie Barrett, and as John said, had two coaches that absolutely were him.

So when he's sitting in that meeting, he's there going, the review is on two penalties.

It's like, they're never penalties.

The coach is going to go, yeah, you're absolutely right.

Don't stop doing that because you're right.

Tyke Byrne, how many times does he get penalized wrongly as opposed to being the right person at the right place and turning it over?

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