Rory O'Connor
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he makes it into something because he's so decisive.
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.
And then obviously the main man, the guy who was at the front of the orchestra, Gibson Park.
The speed that he played with, his ability to challenge the interior English defence, sit them down or probe through.
The offloading game, I think Ireland definitely have more of a focus on offload
It's a fascinating question.
Statistically, so from the first three rounds of the Six Nations last year, Ireland offloaded 40 times.
First three rounds this year, 68 times.
That's a 70% increase.
Like, I trawl through these different stats.
It's very rare.
Sometimes you might get a 10% or a 15% increase and you get somewhat excited about it.
That is a big change and that means they're working on it in training.
And what does an offload gives you?
It gives you the ability to attack against an unstructured, quite often retreating defence.
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.
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.
Yeah, like I was frazzled as well.
I've been pretty bullish England, so.
No, if I was a stockbroker, I was very much buy, buy, buy.