Rúaidhrí O'Connor
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I think to be fair, his fingerprints are over a few of those set plays.
You know, it looked like Doris was going to crash into the line and he pulls one back and Osborne goes over and it's like, oh God, yeah, that team are so deadly from...
These kind of situations and the line out functioned 100%.
So we saw the set plays.
And then, as Rudd mentioned, the O'Brien try on 68 minutes where Frawley's very involved, the second playmaker.
And there's all sorts of lovely things happening.
Peter Manley called it the best trial and scored in the championship.
So kind of the first time you really thought, God, this Irish attack looks akin to what we fell in love with a couple of years ago.
Frawley's one I knew.
So the Osborne try on three minutes isn't a set play?
Right.
It just looks so seamless.
I thought, well, they've rehearsed that 50 times.
And how do you know it's not off the training ground?
OK, so Darius crashes it up.
That was really interesting.
And it worked a treat.
And then talk to us about the O'Brien one on 68 Minutes, where it is far more loose and off the cup and they're deep into phases.
And so would you say those shapes have been in place in other games?
You know, they've been given the template and the confidence or whatever just hasn't been there.