Gordon D'Arcy

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1,219 appearances 11 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Where do Ireland go from here? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

They're your four out-halves.

You've got to figure out how to play with them.

What is the way, shape we have to do?

Because the biggest takeaway from this whole Nations Championship is that we are really good at what we're really good at, which is...

close in scoring, just the dog of determination, just the attitude and then the squad, all those, you know, the intangibles are still very good and our defence is still, is very good and the scramble, like really, really good.

Discipline's got better, so there's an awful lot of positives in it, but our attack has not clicked.

For these three games, I'm really blown away with how average our attack was.

So that is what Andy Farrell needs to find out what is going to work for these players over the next kind of 15 months.

A couple of things on that.

They have all regenerated their player pool as well.

So you look at the team that Ireland are playing against New Zealand, you go back, there is more players coming through in New Zealand, France...

South Africa they have that turnover of players you can already see Razzy talking about oh you know the good pressure that's coming on from some of the debutants 12 months out from the World Cup we don't have that coming through

So you have this quality of players that are coming through teams ranked 1, 2 and 3.

We don't necessarily have that quality coming through or that turnover of players, that competition for places coming through.

So we are comfortably the fourth best team in the world at the moment.

That gap has widened between 1, 2 and 3 and us.

And...

I don't think we have the same raw materials to talk about closing that gap.

There is also a piece around defending your position here.

So, you know, just because everybody else is playing at a game that is X, Y and Z, whatever France, whatever New Zealand, whatever South Africa are doing,

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