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Rory O'Connor

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1344 total appearances

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Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

he makes it into something because he's so decisive.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

He puts the foot down on the gas, right foot step, big left hand fend into Lawrence and then again has the speed to get past the cover.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

And then obviously the main man, the guy who was at the front of the orchestra, Gibson Park.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

The speed that he played with, his ability to challenge the interior English defence, sit them down or probe through.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

The offloading game, I think Ireland definitely have more of a focus on offload

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

It's a fascinating question.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

Statistically, so from the first three rounds of the Six Nations last year, Ireland offloaded 40 times.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

First three rounds this year, 68 times.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

That's a 70% increase.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

Like, I trawl through these different stats.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

It's very rare.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

Sometimes you might get a 10% or a 15% increase and you get somewhat excited about it.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

That is a big change and that means they're working on it in training.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

And what does an offload gives you?

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

It gives you the ability to attack against an unstructured, quite often retreating defence.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

But it also tells you that Ireland are in a great space physically because we're dominating the contact, which is giving us the luxury to throw these offloads.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

And then we're inputting the right players in there who have the skill set, the likes of McCluskey, to be able to get the ball and keep it alive.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

Yeah, like I was frazzled as well.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

I've been pretty bullish England, so.

Indo Sport
Ireland's rebirth | Awful England | McCloskey's long game | The Rugby Show

No, if I was a stockbroker, I was very much buy, buy, buy.