John O'Sullivan
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It's great support lines.
It's understanding when to give the pass, what space to run into, all of that sort of stuff.
That comes from...
Skill sets, it comes from timing, but it also comes from instincts and the way you train.
And I think that, like I say, I think lengths are a little bit clunky and mechanical at times, and they've got to get back to feeling it more, if that's the right expression.
Very good point.
And like the thing is that they, so you talk about that trying to lose.
The identification was that Dennis Hickey was opposed by Fabian Palouse's second row out in the touchline.
And they understood that the quicker they got the ball to him and the more of a run he got.
And he burned Palouse on the outside.
And you're gone.
And the support was great.
But that was identification, skills, and the courage to play that way.
If you look at the way that Toulouse play and Bordeaux play, Northampton play, Bath play, that's their instincts are.
Move it.
Get it to space.
Understand what you're doing.
have that skill set and vision to play the ball, but move it quickly, make good decisions and have good habits.
And all of those things combined to allow you to be lethal, particularly on counter-attack, but also to get you into the right spaces to score tries.
And I think that's, Leinster need to switch from mechanical to a more of a flow state where it's, yeah, let's go and let's,