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Gordon D’Arcy: ‘Johnny Sexton’s rugby IQ is off the charts and sets him aside’

A t some stage on Saturday Johnny Sexton will gaze up at the posts at the Aviva Stadium and all will fall quiet. He will take his time but the outcome will be almost preordained. One more successful kick and Ireland’s fly-half will become the leading all-time Six Nations points-scorer. A little shuffle, a thump of his white-booted right foot and another slice of history will be secured.

The key to understanding what makes Sexton tick, though, is what happens next. There will be no grandstanding or outward gush of emotion at passing Ronan O’Gara’s old record of 557 points. Because what really drives him, even at the age of 37, is something subtly different “His drive is not for perfection, it’s for success,” says Gordon D’Arcy, his former Leinster and Ireland teammate. “It’s not always about excellence because everybody’s bar is different.”

And Sexton, it seems, is still as addicted to winning as ever. On the eve of almost certainly his final Six Nations appearance, his old mate D’Arcy also believes Ireland’s captain ranks among the very best rugby brains the sport has ever known. “A couple of players have had it down the years,” says D’Arcy. “There’s a switch they flick when they cross the white line. He definitely has it. It didn’t used to matter if you were going for dinner with him that night, with your wives and partners, or if you were someone he couldn’t stand. Everybody was equal within the white lines.

“He does things at the right time and his rugby IQ is off the charts. That is something that sets him apart from most people I know in rugby. They’ll be looking for others to tell them what they should do next. Sexton has already thought about it and told you where to be. To have that is just phenomenal and to be

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