Sam Larner

Um, and you, you won't get the same outcomes because you haven't spent the same amount of time on it, but you're not going from zero versus a hundred percent.

You're going from like you're 60% of the way there, Lancaster, the hundred percent of the way there.

So your, the margin is, is, is lesser.

So I think that being a really good team has given them the flexibility to try new things.

actually we are seeing this so so just as an example their long pass percentage in the last two seasons is 68 basically in the uh two seasons pre-neba it was 37 and 50 so that kind of fairly short little little tip passes it is starting to go away

Partly they're passing more, but those little intricate little passes are going away.

But I think fundamentally, if you're a really good side, you can work on new ideas which push you down forward.

If you feel you are struggling...

to dominate in the way that you once were, I think you end up going back to what you know and becoming a side that kind of dominates what they know, but perhaps doesn't push you going forwards.

And your point is maybe similar, but I think you'd look at France maybe as where the new ideas are coming from, like the idea of four-man pods, the idea of...

I just say total rugby where you've got those forwards who can easily step in when there's a line break and you end up with all your quick guys in the back and then a selection back there was outside.

You've got those guys who can just go, yep, I'll step in, I'll throw a 10-meter pass.

So I think that that's where it's coming from at the moment.

I think probably Leinster have lost their place on top of the pile as the generators of new ideas.

But I think that changes very, very quickly.

I think that is fair.

So I think...

Having said, you know, the idea that maybe we don't know how good coaches are, then maybe it's PR to a certain extent.

I do think Nyingabai is a very, very good coach.

Like, I think he's exceptional.