Gordon D'Arcy
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1,219 appearances
11 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
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But where they go from here, I think, as you said, there's a lot of players to come back into that team.
And there's, yeah, cautious optimism.
I wouldn't be saying, like, it's not as if we're kind of going, okay, well, this
five players from the under 20s that are going to come through and five players from an academy system somewhere that are going to fight their way through this is more or less the group that's going to have that's going to go into the World Cup so we will need to evolve what we're doing and how we're playing to make sure we have a decent run at a World Cup in about 14 months time
a conscious effort to try and rebuild the phase play attack or if they just reverted to type after a long season and tiredness I've no idea but it didn't seem like they kept going you've got to generate transition ball to play that so we didn't generate any so you can't I suppose it's not comparing like with like suppose we were contestables we were reasonably good in the air with box kicks and that's where the most of the transition comes from is those turnover balls on kicks and actually the
We weren't really contesting in the air.
We didn't create much opportunity to play that game.
I think also an important part of that as well is he was at 10, so Jack Rowley is probably better suited to that game.
Brendan Gass is more of a system player, so it'd be unfair to maybe ask him to play a game that doesn't fit his skill set.
Lots of changes, lots of debuts.
It was a game, you know, that you wanted to go really, really, really well.
And you wanted Ciarán Froli to be at his swashbuckling best.
And then after 30 minutes, you realize it just wasn't going to be that game.
So that's fine.
This happens, you know, a lot of players getting exposure at this level.
You know, I was joking with Stuart Lancaster in the taxi on the way here.
And he was saying you sometimes get matches that you don't want as a player.
And you'd prefer to be last week in the team or potentially shine.
But it was a game it was hard to stand out in.
Now, I will caveat that by saying that for me, a couple of players did stand out.
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