Rugby Daily | BOD: Frawley is Leinster's guy for the URC playoffs, Croke Park set for another final
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Now, first up today, Leinster fans, you'll be thrilled to hear that we're not quite done sifting through the ashes of the Investec Champions Cup final defeat to Bordeaux Begla last weekend. Three-time winner Brian O'Driscoll joined Owen Shahan for Wednesday Night Rugby this week, and he gave his take on the Neenaber Blitz defence and why it came unstuck against the defending champions.
You know, when we were playing... we would always have triggered different things. The last thing you want to be is predictable. We would have blitzed sometimes occasionally off a scrum just for the opposition 10, depending on who it was, to go, well, that's what we're doing today, and then next time you show a completely different picture. Predictability is not your friend. You need to always... offer something slightly different to make sure you keep the attack guessing. And I think playing the Blitz defence, unless you have it absolutely nailed down, and I don't think we could say at any point it's been nailed down over the course of this two years, whereas comparatively you look at the Jacques Nienaber defence with South Africa, it was like, how do we beat this?
That was the sense in the World Cup. It was like, how do you get around this? Or how do you get through it? They had it so tight, so efficient, so effective. And then their scramble was so good when they did occasionally get busted that you kind of didn't think a whole lot about it. Whereas with this particular group, I don't think you could say that it has had anywhere near the same effect that it had for the spring box. And couple that then is that it's taken obviously an awful lot of time and focus to try and get the nuances of it and get the accuracy of it that it has achieved. subtracted from other parts of the game. And that's the reality of it. And people will be like, oh, here you go again.
It's just the case. I thought at times the multi-phase, and I did say last week that some of it had really improved and got an awful lot better.
What insights does Brian O'Driscoll provide on Ciaran Frawley's role for Leinster?
I thought some of the timings of the run, the intent of potentially being decoys, like if you look at the intercept, Wait till you see the speed that James Ryan and I don't know who else is on the outside pod, the speed at which they're going, literally at a snail's pace. There's no intention. There's no desire. Desire is the wrong word. There's no intention to run with ferocity and vigor and attitude. It's very stop-starty. If he did get the ball, he's going to get smashed anyway.
What challenges is Munster facing in finding a new forwards coach?
And so that is a concern. And so when you do focus a huge part of what you've done, and then it just hasn't quite come to pass and transpired as you would have hoped for. And you look back to the part that used to be really good and it's not as good anymore. It almost feels like a bit of a double negative.
Thoughts now turn to Leinster's URC quarterfinal against the Lions at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Bott feels that Ciarán Frawley, who's leaving for Connacht this summer, might be the shout as their first choice out half for the final run-in. He believes that Harry Burns' struggles in both the last weekend's final in Bilbao and their semi-final win over Toulon a couple of weeks ago may not help his case as the starting taker.
Years ago I said, the apprenticeship for Harry Byrne on Twitter, I said, the apprenticeship for Harry Byrne is over, surely it's his time now.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:56
2
What insights does Brian O'Driscoll provide on Ciaran Frawley's role for Leinster?
2:56–3:30
3
What challenges is Munster facing in finding a new forwards coach?
3:30–4:25
4
How did Leinster's performance in the Champions Cup final affect their playoff strategy?
4:25–5:10
5
What does Brian O'Driscoll say about the effectiveness of the Neenaber Blitz defense?
5:10–10:23
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