Rugby Daily | Brain injury legal case on brink of collapse, can Ireland find their passing game again?
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Andy Farrell's side managed a second place finish in the Six Nations Just Gone in a campaign that saw their title hopes go right down to the last kick of the championship. as well as huge wins over England at Twickenham and Scotland at the Aviva Stadium. But comprehensive defeats to South Africa, France and New Zealand, including a 40 points to 21 loss at Eden Park last weekend, leave some thinking that the gap between Ireland and the very top sides is widening all the time. Their inaccuracy in attack was a big talking point from the July tests. Just the five clean breaks against the All Blacks who beat 40 defenders compared to Ireland's 19. Brian O'Driscoll joined Mick McCarthy for a review of the season on Tuesday nights off the ball.
and he revealed the passing drills that helped Ireland become one of the best passing sides in the world under Joe Schmidt.
Joe was big about putting massive pressure in very close quarters around doing three-on-twos, four-on-twos, picking the right pass. You know, he'd call various different numbers of where the ball was to go, so you reacted really late. Even going back to David Knox, when we were, you know, back in the kind of late noughties, you know, he used to have those colour... you know different colour cones where he'd call a colour of a cone and the ball had to go there and then he'd call another colour and it would be split second decisions and then what used to be really exciting was he'd call you know different colours of like NRL teams like Aussie Rugby League teams and some of the lads would go I have no idea what Newcastle Knights colours are but I did but
But then he'd go like, Joey Johns. And I'd be like, first of all, who's Joey Johns? I'd be like, so I was like, I used to get a thrill from this because I probably had the knowledge for it. And he would be laughing at it, but it was about trying to compute really, really, you know, those thoughts really quickly and decipher what he meant by them. So Joey Johns, Newcastle Knights, blue and red, go. White and red, Rabbitohs, he'd call Russell Crowe sometimes, right? The owner of the Rabbitohs. So you'd be like, Russell Crowe. And you'd be like, red, white. So you're bouncing from one colour to the next.
So it's like, make your brain go while you have the ball in your hand. Exactly.
Exactly. Around computing those decisions, but also having fun with them too. So I would imagine that they are doing, you know, some form of drills. But I think if you look at the catch pass of New Zealand over the last few weeks, and particularly last weekend, I thought they were really good against France as well.
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