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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Hey, listen, I just thought I was going to
it.
There's a lot of players to get a lot of game time into.
And like, yeah, I think it makes sense to be bringing these players that haven't got a huge amount of game time towards the end of the tail end of last season.
Injuries, whatever that might be.
But they're going to have to reintegrate 20 plus players or 20 players
over the next four weeks so it does make sense to go in to get them to get the game time that benefit of those younger players getting time with Joe McCarthy whoever else with those senior players it really is invaluable because what they bring is yeah they bring muscle they bring weight they bring experience but
Younger players, getting 80 minutes with a 30-cap Irish international like Joe McCarthy is invaluable for those young backs and young forwards because they see it.
When you see it, you can do it.
I know that sounds fairly obvious, but when you are that young player and you have... I go back and look at Victor Costolo nodding at me and going, just follow me through the break here.
And he just runs through two lads and pops you the ball.
And Malcolm O'Kelly controlling a line out for when there's younger guys in and around them.
It makes such a difference to your confidence.
And when a player starts developing confidence, that's when good things start to happen.
Oh, Christ.
Yeah, well, you know what?
The other side of this is going to force them into some decisions.
And you're going to have to throw kids in the deep end.
And this is a bit like if I was a 20, 21, 22-year-old now, I would be so excited about getting an opportunity in this team because...
it is an ageing team and there is a turnover happening in it and playing well when things are away from home in there like this yeah anybody who's an aspiring kid any aspiring young kids trying to play in this game they should be looking at this with huge excitement and I'll be really disappointed if we don't if we're not talking about a couple of academy players when they come back from this South African trip
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