Ian Madigan
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3,445 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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if you threw in a six day turnaround there, I'd say that would have been the tipping point.
There is something cool about three test series where like Ireland are going over to Australia or South Africa and teams are figuring each other out.
But what I would have found is, let's say going into autumn then, if you were to ask me, oh, what do you think of Argentina?
I mightn't have watched a whole lot of them because they could have had three tests against Scotland, for example, whereas I've watched all of the nations across, maybe not every game, but across the three weekends.
I have a very good feeling about Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, whereas I wouldn't necessarily have had that going into the autumn series in previous years.
I think it got off to an incredible start.
The first round of games in particular was great.
The second two rounds, you know, they had kind of one, one and a half decent games in it.
But as Eddie touched on there, a few dead rubbers as well, or games that were very much over come halftime or even before that on a few occasions.
So, yeah, look, I do like it.
I'd also share that you don't want it to take from the Six Nations or the World Cup, as Eddie said.
I don't think it will.
And it will mean that it's teed up in autumn now for really competitive games to finish as high up that ladder as possible, ideally into first place.
But yeah, I think Ireland are going to have to probably go unbeaten, you know, most certainly unbeaten to make that top place.
Yeah, I think the interesting point that Eddie's made there, especially from a coaching perspective, is they've tested us and gone, look, what if we just pummel Ireland?
Where's that going to leave us?
And it left them on top.
Like in the tight exchanges, they were able to keep the gain line.
They were able to generate quick ruck ball.
Whereas we really struggled in those dense carries.
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