Ian Madigan

always trying to be positive right and look to give some of these guys an out as well because I think the world of them and like no one's a bigger Irish supporter than I am and I'd love to see us turning this around but like if you look at Caelan Dorris's

meters per carry last season versus this season you know you're looking at 4.8 meters last season 3.6 meters this season that's that's 20 percent down post contact meters which is i love that stat and france killed us in it last night the

It's hard to get those numbers instantly, but he was averaging three meters post-contact last season.

He's now averaging 1.7.

It's a 40% drop.

You're talking about one percenters.

I'd say Sheehan is probably somewhere similar.

He's not as impactful.

I haven't been able to go through it with the same detail.

You think of the carry that James Lowe had against Mitchell in the England game in the sixth.

It was just so powerful.

It had a fan, it had footwork, it had an offload.

Have we seen that for Leinster much this season?

No, we haven't.

And these guys, they're probably carrying some form of injuries as well.

Obviously, Caelan had a serious shoulder surgery.

I know from... I got shoulder reconstruction back in...

2009 it took me a full year to feel now I'm obviously not doing what he's doing but it took me a full year to have confidence in it and that's both carrying and tackling so yeah look the Lions has been has really really hurt us and it can be challenging off the back of a performance like that when the team is flat to and I've said this before trying to turn that around in the space of a week is really difficult like what do you do play five-a-side soccer on Monday

You know, you don't have that luxury.

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