Nathan Johns
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first heard Apr 2026
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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Leinster win back-to-back URC titles · 19 Jun 2026
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They didn't quite get that.
They did in the scrum, but not the extent that it became game changing.
To what extent do you credit Leinster for denying them that?
Or to what extent do you think just that physicality they need for that game plan wasn't there?
Until they were 20 points up.
And in that period, you say the second half.
Yeah.
Yeah, and even just when Leinster took that penalty late in the first half, instead of going to the corner again, that created a four score game.
They didn't have to do a lot necessarily, but they managed the game pretty well.
What was interesting, what I found interesting in that first half, and we'll get on to Leinster's attack because there's a few positive bits to get into there, I suspect.
But when the Bulls, the few times they did have the ball in that first half,
And they played that power game, that kind of what Bordeaux did to Leinster, keep the ball very close to the ruck.
There's three or four lads there to blast the ruck.
Every ruck is rapid.
Your nine is looking to be a threat around the breakdown.
And you've got those outside backs.
They'd still have that forward power to an extent.
But what intrigued me was Leinster, for me, they definitely took that defensive physicality up a gear from Bordeaux.
to the point where they were almost tackling the guys who were coming in to hit the breakdown at the same time as they're tackling the ball carrier, if that made sense.
And Tommy O'Brien came up with a big breakdown steal because I think somebody got tripped up over a Leinster tackler.
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