Ian Madigan

And...

I spoke to Richie at length about it.

And I just, it didn't really suit my style.

Richie was the one who actually suggested that the telescopic tee to me.

And I, I'll never forget the first kick I took off it.

I was like, where has this, this TV in all my life?

Because I'd missed like important kicks, especially in school.

And, um,

It was really important for me breaking into the Leinster team that my kicking percentages were as high as possible.

I needed that to be a point of difference, certainly not to be holding me back because there's loads of guys who I was competing with.

And then suddenly I went from being probably a mid-60s goal kicker to pushing 90%.

And the reliability, you touched on it there, the irking...

when you see a big miss or a miss from inside the 15s, inside the 15-meter lines, that shirks your confidence big style.

Whereas if your misses are only marginal and you're able to correct them there and then, as in you know why you've missed and how to correct it, that fills you with confidence in itself.

But as a goal kicker, you can't be missing left, can't be missing the next one you miss right, or it's a snap hook.

And so look, there's a body of work there for Jack to do because he's a quality kicker out of hand and he can kick really well off the tee, but it's a lack of consistency.

And what it looks like to me is there's probably lots of technical points going on up top.

You know, he's thinking of maybe four, five, six, seven, eight different things throughout the week.

But then when he's getting to a game, he's probably struggling to focus on, you know,

two and ideally just one technical point that you're just laser focused on and you know in the heart of hearts if you do that one technical point well the likelihood of the kick going over is really high whereas he's thinking of three four five six different things he forgets to do one of those but it ends up being crucial and that could be as simple as your plant foot being too shallow and