Ian Madigan

And you throw in the speed and agility and passing ability of that French backline.

they can go lateral, they can go backwards, they can keep the ball alive in contact.

And they did that really well last night and it made us look porous in defence.

Yeah, it's dominant hits and it's speed as well.

Like if I'm...

If we're on a one-on-one instance and I have speed over you, I can take you on the outside.

Yeah, you might be able to scrag me down, but I can offload around your back.

And the French did that really well.

Leading into this game, so 13 games leading into this one, on average, the French offloaded 40% more than Ireland.

In the last three games that we've played each other, excluding last night, they averaged 50% more offloads than us.

Um, I was concerned about this going into the game and last night, you know, the, the offload, the official staff was, was 21 offloads to our six.

So three and a half X. Yeah.

It's just so significant.

And the reality is Ireland, we've never really been an offloading team.

Like even, you know, back to Joe Schmidt, um,

it was really around breaking teams down systematically.

We didn't need to risk offloads.

It was about going through the phases and then unlocking the code.

And we did that really effectively.

And you could see that the first and only opportunity we got in the French 22 last night, I think it was on about six or eight minutes, good line out, good go forward ball.