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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Like, we've seen that English game plan really fall on its face when you go behind early and you're trying to play this kind of territory aerial contest.
You know, you're 14 points down, you're 20 points down.
The natural way you're going to go is start running the ball a bit more.
Yeah.
But that's an area that we should be really strong at because we've got quality kickers that get it early, accurately.
And then we've got really good players in the likes of Balakun, O'Brien, Keenan, both O'Briens, Jimmy and Tommy, that can get up and can compete and create those breaking balls or win the ball clean.
And that's when our attack can really come to light, when the defence is then retreating.
Yeah, it is.
I'm going to talk through, if you don't mind, just one passage of play.
Look, I'm not a defence coach, but I've sat in enough meetings to know what good looks like.
It was the first try that New Zealand get.
There's a line out on the 45 yards out from the New Zealand try line.
They win the line out off the tail.
So it's a really good platform to attack off because Ireland's tail gunners are less prominent as opposed to winning the ball at the front.
Your defense is much more solid.
So they win the game line off the first phase.
It's a solid initial tackle by Prendergast, but not good enough because ideally you want Prendergast getting that attacker on the ground and then McCluskey can come in and poach
He mightn't necessarily win the ball, but he'll slow it down, whereas McCluskey has to come in and he's assist tackler.
So he's not poaching, but he's in the tackle.
He's trying to slow it down.
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