James Tracy

He's missed 17 tackles this season.

Hugo Keenan,

has missed 10 tackles he hasn't played as much rugby but he's on about 51% and James Lowe is the same he's after missing I think it's something like he's 52% tackle rate so you can see that they're really struggling in space in those wide channels and when the ball goes over the top it's just too much space and these players in particular that are playing and starting they're missing a lot of tackles out wide

So what I thought was a little bit different, they still brought that heavy rush defence, but I did feel like they gave those wider channels a little bit more support, especially on the outside.

They didn't shoot up as much as we're used to.

Jamie Osborne, even Ione, they held their foot a little bit to help with those outside channels.

And I thought it paid dividends.

Yes, there still was a lot of line speed, but I don't think it was quite as intense.

It was more internal rather than putting pressures on in that wide area.

You were part of the squad back in 2018 that won in Bilbao, but you're also unfortunately part of the teams that have lost out in the finals and semifinals since.

Has it become annoying or very difficult at this point that there's been so many disappointments back to back?

How would you look at it?

Earning the right to blitz is how I was taught how to defend and the systems that I played in.

Let's go now.

It's a bit of both.

It's a bit of feel, but it's also, you know, if there's time to communicate to go, you are verbally trying to get people on to go as hard as they can.

But sometimes it's a feel thing of you just know not to go because you've seen this picture before and you've trained it and you've chatted about it and you've gotten it wrong in training or in a game and you've looked at it in the video room.

But this, from my understanding from the outside looking in and a few conversations I've had on this is...

It's go 95% of the time.

It's just go.