Ian Madigan
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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Indo Sport · Leinster's lame duck concern | Munster's mood music | Scary Springboks · 9 Sep 2026
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And part of that is down to
the weather that you're you're competing in, you know, through the likes of November, December, January, where it's typically a wet ball, the surface underfoot isn't isn't particularly conducive to running rugby.
And that's where through that period of time we were looking at Leinster just one o one off passes, trying to bludgeon teams and it was tough work.
And they were, you know, beating teams that on paper they were significantly better than by
Only a score.
Yeah.
And you know, you you look at the the Leicester game in Welford Road, playing against the likes of Bayonne.
Um, there was a lot of games in the URC that they were just scrapping their way to victories, even the the Dragons in Newport, for example.
Um, but then kind of as the weather was improving and the the team came back together post the Six Nations, you saw them moving the ball out of the shapes.
But there was a much bigger emphasis on getting the ball into the wide channels, getting the wingers on the ball much more um when they win an aerial contest contest playing off that, you know, when they're presented with good attacking opportunities, taking them.
Um so it wasn't a complete damn squib of a season.
You know, they still made the the final of the Champions Cup and were comprehensive winners of the of the URC.
It was
just you you know that the the performance against Bordeaux obviously was the big blot on the on the copy book.
Um the other thing I'd say is with Jacques's defensive system, when you're bringing in a a a system like that
There is so much learning in every training session.
And we saw the kind of the that in the in the first season, and you could hear the snippets coming out from the camp that look a huge amount of time is spent on defense and the time that that the likes of Tyler is getting from an attacking perspective is very limited.
You'd like to think as this project goes into year three and year four that the time is going to be more fairly split and we'll be able
To see more of an emphasis on Lenster's attacking play as opposed to focusing on bringing in this kind of high energy um defensive system.
Yeah, I I think on that point as well.
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