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Gordon D'Arcy

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The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

I got turned over on the first one.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

And he gets the ball, he does a little dummy and then just powers into contact.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

And I'm just looking at all of the players around him.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

Very few players are looking at what Ronan Keller is doing.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

And to me, that is a real issue.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

As they're going, you can't be thinking the next phase when the ball, and then they get turned over.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

So that I just think is a really good insight into how players are playing the game at the moment.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

The reason why I mentioned NRL is they send a Willie Mason.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

They send him up on a tap ball and the whole other 12 players know that that's what he's doing.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

He's going to carry.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

They don't have to send anyone to the rook.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

So they can actually get set up for the next play.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

And they do that whole pivot passing, front door option, somebody at the back.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

But the key difference with that is they're moving when they get the ball.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

So when you're the first receiver, second receiver, third receiver, whatever that might be, everybody is in motion.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

And it's a key difference between what the union game has taken from rugby league.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

We've taken this, oh, we'll do this, the pivot plays, I've started calling them the dead pass, but it's static, which I think is a fundamental difference between what we've take, what rugby league do versus what rugby union is doing.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

And I think it's something we have to think about and should be thinking about very, very differently.

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

But where has this pod system come from?

The Counter Ruck
Leinster win back-to-back URC titles

It's come from Rugby League to create that second wave.