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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They were able to prevent us from getting over the gain line.
They were able to starve us of quick ruck ball.
And that resulted in New Zealand being able to get those easy, soft edges where you're kind of questioning our defence, which I'll get to.
But the reason those opportunities are presented is because they've beaten us up physically and earned the right to go wide and given themselves the opportunity of quick ruck ball or retreating defence.
And I think on Eddie's point, we're probably standing in fourth place
alongside the likes of the chasing pack of England, Scotland, Australia, Argentina to an extent.
And then there's another drop down to the likes of Italy, Fiji, Wales.
And then the top three of France, South Africa, New Zealand are clear top three.
And to the point of pummeling Ireland,
if those top three sides went in with a game plan of going, we're just going to go physical here and look to really take Ireland on up front, I think we lose the majority of those games.
And the results speak for themselves.
I think it was Will from the left wing said, the last six games against those top three, France, South Africa, New Zealand, we've lost six in a row and we haven't been within 10 points.
And it's felt like that watching it.
We had a big opportunity in November against a poor team
New Zealand team that performed poorly on the day and even still we weren't able to get over the line yet we came up against a New Zealand team at the weekend that was more on a going day and the gulf is getting wider which is concerning now you know there's plenty we can look at to still be optimistic but it definitely does have a feeling that we're losing touch with that top three
I was slightly concerned going into the game that the fatigue of the season was going to take its toll.
And that's not down to lack of effort.
And it can also come down to lack of skill execution.
But it did play out that way.
When you're talking about pass accuracy, drop balls, losing the physical contest...
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