Ian Madigan
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first heard Feb 2026
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Indo Sport · Ireland's resolve | Defence confusion | Ominous Springboks | Ian Madigan · 6 Jul 2026
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And it's the same with just going –
width to width and playing a wide expansive game that's not the hardest to defend it's when you then throw in a team that will go to the middle and then utilize the short side and that's where you know the likes of gibson parks game really comes in don't let the defense settle into a nice pattern so look yeah you'd be inclined to say well this is just um teething problems they're back together there is the wrinkle that leinster play a different style of defense
Yeah, I think looking to the Japan game first, very different to what we faced against Australia and very different to what we'll be facing against New Zealand.
Japan love structure.
So Ireland's ability to stay connected but also take the Japanese attackers' time away is going to be really important.
If you sit on your heels, they have a very good multi-phase attack.
They caused Italy a huge amount of problems at the weekend.
But they are reliant on time.
The more time they have, the better decisions they'll make.
If you can get up in their face... And we've done this to Japan over the last couple of times that we've played them.
We've really affected their timing.
And...
Part of that is playing in the Japanese league.
You're not getting exposed to playing against South African, Scottish, Italian teams, changing on a weekly basis.
You're playing a very similar structured game week in, week out.
And then when you present a different picture to these Japanese players, they really struggle to adapt.
And it's really important that this Irish defense does that.
And they can really stifle that Japanese attack if they do that well.
The foundation of good attack is good ball-carrying
keeping the gain line, generating quick ruck ball.
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