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Ian Madigan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
442 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And Prendergast goes to offload it to Josh.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

I don't think Josh is even expecting an offload.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

He's just thinking of rookie.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

Whereas on the flip side,

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

You know, all the French guys are expecting offloads off the ball carrier.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

Do you know what's interesting about that?

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

Exactly.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And that's where if you're not doing it week in, week out, and the difference is when, when RG Simon's carrying the ball for Leinster, everyone's thinking offloads on here.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

Yeah.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

all the French players are thinking that with every player in that team.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

That's the reality.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And it's also how you train.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

You can't just go into a given week and go, right, let's suddenly be an offloading team.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

All the drills you do in training, and I know this for a fact with Toulouse, they spend, I'd say, 80% of their time keeping the ball alive.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

Guinhoves will flip out when a player gets tackled because he views that as a defeat.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And that's when you have a breakdown and the opportunity to turn the ball over.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

The flip side of it is, though, if you can get the French players on the ground, they don't particularly like it.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And if you're looking for an offload and you don't get it away, quite often you'll end up on your back and your head will be facing the defending team.

Indo Sport
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game

And that's when the turnover opportunities happen.