Ian Madigan

Like you don't have to practice your passing as a team.

You can also practice it before and after training in and around gym sessions.

That was one thing that Joe Schmidt just drove till the cows come home.

You know, the best coaches are doing it.

Pat Lamb references that every player has to throw a thousand passes every week.

That compounds.

Very much so.

And it was rewarded if you were good at it.

Like, I built large parts of my game off it.

And...

he would commend it if it was good, but I remember doing passing drills with Joe and it was just running commentary from, you know, catch it early, you know, don't let the ball dominate you, finish to the target, don't let your hands drop.

If one of his good ones was catch a bad one, give a good one, you know, because quite often it's a knock-on effect when one bad pass is thrown, it leads to another bad pass, et cetera.

But he had a full array of other ones, but...

He would... That compounds session on session, week on week.

And you would know if you had a... It might even be a three or four minute passing drill, getting yourself into a session.

But he would bring this intense focus to...

that he would believe then that that's going to tee up the session.

And if, you know, God forbid, if I threw a pass and didn't finish my hands to the target and he said it to me, and then I did another one of those passes in the session, I would know all about it.

He would tap me on the shoulder and say, you're not finishing to your target and it's hurting you and it's going to cost us.

And it comes back to kind of,