Rory O'Connor

He'll be back though.

No, it's not just that.

It's not just, can we find him for a one-on-one tackle?

It's how it influences defenders inside and outside that perceive... They have to compensate.

Exactly.

You have to sit off a bit.

For example, when Darius slips the ball to Balakou, that's the kind of thing that you see with a weak defender inside you.

You're worried.

But if you're not worried, then you're getting yourself into a better position.

We talked about...

The soak tackle that he made on Menoncello and then subsequently Casey gets yellow carded.

That's poor and that has a knock on effect.

Whereas Crowley gets his body in front.

The one tackle on Lawrence, like Lawrence is a big chunk of man and he just goes straight at him really hard.

you're never winning that physical contest but what you can do is get low and pull him over you and that's exactly what Crowley did he landed really long we went in we contested it he gives everyone another chance the worst thing there is you let Lawrence get into your guts and he can keep going for 5-10 metres the ball's really quick and then you're in dire straits equally he'd be sitting at home watching going

Yeah, another point I'd make, like Ireland with Prendergast there and with limited speed,

were more reliant on unpicking the lock unpicking the code him being an excellent decision maker at the line picking the right option and look he's top class at passing under pressure bringing defenders to him picking the right option and doing that over and over again

if you've got Tommy O'Brien and Balakun on the wings, sometimes it's just about getting it there and it doesn't have to be perfect.

And Crowley does do that very well.

Yeah, another one where I think he runs short off Gibson Park, offloads it to Lachman.