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Published 15:49 23 Oct 2019 BST
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"In the 2017/18 season once Leinster started playing an attacking brand of rugby and the majority of the Ireland squad was Leinster based they let a little bit of that Leinster flair infiltrate the Ireland camp... Joe (Schmidt) started to go away from his tried and trusted drills and introduced a bit of what we call unstructured play, that came into Ireland camp in training and in the Six Nations and they were throwing off-loads, there was continuity to their play. That got them all the way to the top of the world and an unbeaten year with all the trophies. He went back to the tried and trusted of what worked for the last six years and I just don’t think they were expressive enough. They didn’t have the right ball players and the likes to play that flowing rugby that Johnny (Sexton) likes to play, likes to drive. They lost key players in certain positions and they just never got their flow on."The quotes ring true if you watch any of Ireland's games this year and compare them to the four sides who are in the semi-finals of the World Cup this weekend. A lack of expression and too rigid a game plan hamstrung the side in a critical year. Again.
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