Ian Madigan

It wasn't

to obliterate the individual, you know, but it was always working towards something.

Yeah, look, there's only so many minutes in a training week and defence is definitely of much bigger focus in Leinster at the moment.

And maybe being a particularly good passer isn't being rewarded.

And if other things are, as a player, you're naturally going to focus on those.

That's human nature.

That leaves Farrell's attack with a problem.

It does.

And I think more than ever, we're seeing the disjointedness between the bulk suppliers in Leinster and Ireland and the different systems that the teams are playing.

If you think back over the last seven or eight years, you had real alignment with Joe, you had real alignment with Stuart Lancaster.

And look, Leinster are hell-bent on finding a way to win the Champions Cup and Ireland doing well in the Six Nations isn't their top priority.

Yeah, no, that certainly is.

And you hope that as the weeks compound during the Six Nations, the Irish systems are going to bed into these players more.

and more effectively but like going back to the game last night like specifically you're looking at it you're going that pass it's not the biggest deal like that's not the reason that individual pass that's not the reason we lost but it's a little one percenter in that passage of play and if you know if it's a high pass it affects the line of sight of the person catching it if it's a low one you're thinking of just giving the next one accurately as opposed to potentially assessing what's on for you and

Our short side attack is something that has usually been a real strength of Ireland's game.

And it's a real strength of Gibson Park's game.

And all the top scrum halves in the world have to be good at it because it's the easiest way to get back over the game line.

And there was sometimes when we were chopping back the short side last night, we were coming into brick walls.

And then there was other times when we were coming back and it was on, but we were picking the wrong option or the quality of our pass wasn't crisp enough that a good opportunity was then turned into, oh, it's just a gain line.

It's okay, we made gain line, that's positive.