Rúaidhrí O'Connor

So that maybe is undermining their conviction and what they're doing.

But certainly I think if you were, I don't know, there are, I'm sure there are measurements for line speed.

I'd say Leinster and Exeter are the two most aggressive teams.

And I think, well, you know, Ireland won't follow suit.

Ireland will go with a more passive, that's the wrong word for it because it's not passive, but just a little bit less aggressive.

Considered.

Yeah, and they want to defend a bit wider as well.

I think we saw they were quite narrow against La Rochelle.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

I mean, I covered the Connacht game a couple of weeks ago.

They were really aggressive that day.

So I think you need to take a larger sample size than one game.

And also, I just think the physical toll that the standard of Bayonne's contacts would have taken on them, maybe they just didn't have the energy that they often would have.

Especially on the back of a La Rochelle game last week.

This has been a really tough run.

And Cullen made the point that other teams have...

have slipped up in this across this really intense run and they haven't their fitness has held up very well um that was a tough like really tough every contact every time caitlin dorris carried into contact it looked like it looked really difficult you know to try and get anything out of them so that may have just you know curbed their enthusiasm a little bit in terms of what they were able to do without the ball because they were still gasping for air yeah

And they came up with some big plays on their own line.

I mean, they could have been much further behind early on, like Bayona two early trips to the 22 and they turned over a mall between James Ryan brilliantly getting in there and Jack Boyle turning the ball over and then they won a scrum penalty on their own five meter line.

Their line out has quietly become very, very slick and formidable.