Stacey Flood

40 minutes of pure, amazing attack in rugby.

Stacey Flood, once again, my god, the line breaks from that woman, it's just ridiculous.

She has such width, she has such composure when she's on the ball.

Vicky Yams-Kinlan, Aoife Wafer, like, just ridiculous.

I think if we just, again, I'm not going to talk about it again, if we just fix them all, and then also just get the defensive line a little bit better in the third quarter, I think if we just didn't let in enough.

Discipline obviously is a big thing as well, you know, Vicky Elmskill and getting that yellow card.

it was because she was slow on the ruck but marginal but anyway she probably did deserve it but yeah look overall not a not a huge loss look a disappointing one because realistically you know we beat USA two years ago absolutely flattened them did wondrous work there but we just didn't continue that but let's go into notable players here and you'll know these four because I talk about them so much but Stacey Flood there concentrated fullback Absolutely monumental.

That was it.

Like, Some people, some countries seem to be more predisposed to be kind of like accepting of it.

I know in the past, Stacey Flood, like this before the trial, Stacey Flood was like open to it.

Obviously, in Gaelic football, ladies football, it's a smaller ball than in men's football.

But that's also quite controversial.

You're a bit more involved on both sides, but it's something I would have played a lot in underage.

So it's nice to kind of have it in my toolbox and it's great to learn from the likes of Stacey Flood in here because she's obviously a very unreal player.

I can take a lot from her and from all the girls around me and yeah.

Does the sevens background you have, does that help? I know it's great for defence, because you miss a tackle in sevens.

You're listening to The Big Red Bench with myself, Orla O'Leary.

And now we are going to continue the rugby streak where we have Stacey Flood speaking to Dara Smith-Naughton at the 26-27 Ireland Rugby Jersey launch.

Stacey, that's a nice jersey you have on you there.

Where did you find that?

There's actually another two.

One of them is a crossfit kick from Stacey Flood that doesn't go to hand.

Looking for Aoife Dalton, the bounce beats her.

But if you want to talk about Munster's offensive effort and she shoots sport, had a brilliant video of this.

I know she's not Munster, but we've mentioned her a few times.

Lane and Finn, O'Connor has to start.

I'd probably go McInerney if Parsons isn't available and maybe hold... hold Stacey Flood to the bench because she's that rotation, you know, rotatable option.

That's what I want to see now at this stage.

Straight away, we deal a card for Munster Enya Breen.

Honestly, it was a deliberate knock-on in the tackle on Stacey Flood.

I would have called it marginal now, to be honest, but she got Simba anyway for 10 minutes.

and Munster down to 14 but we did not capitalize on that they did so well when they went down to 14 it just you know they they went into sixth gear and they said right we're down down a woman here we need to make sure we don't let them in and they didn't so it wasn't until the 21st minute that Beth Butmer got the try for Munster and you know it was Finn's pass and Lucia Lynn there through the gap and then Butmer just drove in low to score her fifth try against Leinster this season so yeah Nice for her, not nice for us.

Number 14, we have Robin O'Connor.

And our fullback there is Stacey Flood.

Going over to the bench there, we have number 16, Emma-Jane Wilson.

Number 17, Hannah Wilson.

Brown there is restoring O'Leary and Cahill, probably the only change is actually from Connacht that they won against.

Klassey is ruled out and O'Halloran is shifting from flanker to lock there, which is interesting.

But there also is four Leinster starters who did not feature in the first round in Cork, and that would be Whelan, Flood, Casey and Baker, all of which have had fantastic games since that Munster first outing.

So look, I think we're in a good place.