Gordon D'Arcy

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

Gordon D'Arcy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So again, defence very, very strong.

Tygburn was incredible.

He's going to leave a very, very big hole in this Irish team when he eventually stops playing.

He was immense.

But yeah, the attack never really stressed New Zealand.

I don't think you can underestimate how good the defence from McKenzie was.

So Hugo ran a lovely straight line.

There's very little Hugo Keenan could have done other than what he did and McKenzie bought time for his cover defence.

So you want a defender to make a decision in that situation and McKenzie didn't do and he just bought time.

I don't think Balikun had Enzi one-on-one.

But yeah, I think what was very stark for me in the 10 minutes was how much Will Jordan and Morby.

So what was really stark for me in the opening 10 minutes was how many times Morby and Will Jordan touched the ball and McKenzie compared to ours.

I think Jimmy O'Brien got one touch and that was it.

But Balikun, I think his only touch in the first half was a kick.

Just offloads.

So one from McCluskey and I think one from Joe McCarthy or it might have been Jack Conan.

And lo and behold, they break back-to-back offloads to show how valuable they are.

That's the point of difference for Ireland because what you had... Do you remember Tom O'Toole's knock-on towards the end of the game?

I think it was our last passage of possession.

And that was the Irish systematic attack in a nutshell where we have...

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