Ian Madigan
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3,445 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Ian Madigan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And in my opinion, we've got, you know, Sheehan, McCarthy, and then whether it's Doris or Conan playing, they're the three guys that have the ability to take contact, keep their legs, drive forward, generate quick ruck ball.
But now, probably being a little bit harsh on the likes of Josh, but outside of those three that I mentioned, the other forwards are struggling to keep the game line and struggling to generate quick ruck ball.
I think it's too few because if you're the defending team, you can go, right, anytime we see Conan, anytime we see Sheehan or McCarthy, let's get up in their face, force them to tip the ball or for it not to go to them.
And when they get it, let's look to pummel them.
And if it goes to the other guys, we know that the explosivity and evasiveness isn't there.
We'll be able to manage those situations.
And that's a kind of basic way of understanding.
The conversations aren't going to happen
rugby and shape and a ball out the back it did feel like the New Zealand defence was sort of like look we've seen this before fellas this isn't very scary for us up we go and Adam Yeah and part of that it's not focusing on one thing of going passes need to be faster lines of running need to be better deception needs to be better they all accumulate and when you're coming up against an attack that is really fluid players running onto the ball at speed passes out in front
good lines of running from players that aren't getting it, good deception that makes it look like they're getting it.
That is what really challenges you.
And if that was off, which it was fractionally at the weekend, suddenly defending becomes a lot easier.
Everything's happening in front of you.
You can swim off the guys who are running short that, you know, on another day you think maybe he's going to get it.
And when it comes down to this Irish team and, you know,
Eddie, you know it.
You've coached Ireland.
We're not going to win the World Cup by pummeling the opposition.
We know that.
A lot of this comes down to genetics.
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