Gordon D'Arcy

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Reaction: Ireland run in five tries as they beat Japan · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

I think New Zealand are at that level as well.

we don't have to be there, but I just think that is a difference between teams at the moment.

It's also worth pointing out that at no point should Ireland be trying to play like that because they don't have the players to play like that.

You need to have the capacity to have that as part of your game.

And I think that's going to be the Irish way where, when the opportunity is on, that you have to be able to take some of them.

And where the French teams, the French philosophy is, they will just keep going.

Once they have quick ruck ball, it doesn't matter for them.

Because they have pace, they can move.

As you said, they have that fallback where they can just move it to the wider channels and they have pace there, which is going to get defences to sit off defensively.

by virtue of that which we don't necessarily have there was a couple of opportunities where Ireland could have been more adventurous today and I think we have to get a little bit more of that back into how we play

And they're going to be a little bit harsh here for a couple of players.

But it is not good enough.

So when Jansen makes the line break, was it with Timoney?

Makes the line break and offloads to Jansen.

And then they're really smart by Timoney.

He offloads and passes early to Jansen and then actually gets into a slip scene.

So he gets the guarantees to quick both.

Casey Osborne.

Henshaw and I can't remember who's on the outside they completely butchered it and the main reason was nobody took a draw so that just isn't good enough at this level I said it in commentary it should have been either Craig Casey it should have been Jamie Osborne somebody

Just to your point, John, about creating opportunities, they've done them in a moment of magic, which is the line by Timoney she was doing all day.

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