Gordon D'Arcy

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1,219 appearances 11 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard today

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

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The earlier you get set, the more time you can read to see where the defences have responded to you.

Have your players got set?

Are you just throwing a pass to somebody who's not in a position to run onto it?

So there's a huge amount of decision making goes into it.

Ultimately, the more you practice, the more comfortable you get with those split level decisions.

And I've said this about the best players in the world.

So you can start with, you know, with Johnny Sexton, you can go to Dan Carter, you can go to Johnny Wilkinson.

They've been doing these type of split second read decisions.

Read, appreciate, decision, execution moments.

It's obviously in that key position from a very, very young age.

And they have to be the best at those reading of decisions to get to the positions where they had to be.

So the theory of you are what you do, you know, kind of holds through in that.

The more you practice, the luckier you'll get.

was

isn't it?

So many, so many, so many rucks I carried, so many tries I carried the phase beforehand.

But I think the modern version is the, who did Finlay Beelum pass to?

Was it Hugo Keenan?

against.

Yeah, I just... There's a Stuart Lancaster effect, I think, second season coming in there.

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