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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It doesn't mean you have to go 80 metres and score a try, but you can try and pull players out of positions.

You can try and maybe create a mismatch and you can maybe try and create a little bit of space in a wider channel

and maybe put a kick through or something.

Or you can just maybe make 20, 30 metres and then you can build a kick on your own terms.

If you look at what France did, look at the interplay between their outside backs and what do I mean by interplay?

The amount of times they were passing and getting the ball back

And the running arcs they're doing, that was a huge second half from them against Australia.

But their ability to create mismatches and take them, regardless of where they are in the field.

And we are not there yet.

So that's OK.

We kicked an awful lot of box kicks.

We were reasonably competitive in the air.

But when we got transitioned, there was still no appetite to capitalise on it.

How we manage those possessions in that area of the field will be enough against lower ranked teams.

It will be not enough against teams with bigger packs and the top one, two in the world.

But did you see their footwork into just before?

And it's not into contact.

Their footwork is to actually beat players.

I think that's a really important difference.

We're talking about footwork into contact for Ireland as opposed to footwork to beat players with the French team.

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