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11th May 2022
05:14pm BST

Henry Arundell of London Irish makes a break to score his side's second try against Toulon. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)[/caption]
"For such a young guy, he's big, he's strong, he's incredibly quick. He's running like 10.5 metres per second, constantly. He's the quickest player, by far, that we have. His attacking capabilities are absolutely phenomenal. You just saw that against Toulon. Only special sort of players are able to do something like that. "He is special. He has a lot of learning that he has to do. He has to grow into that [fullback] role. But his attacking armoury is phenomenal."Alex Goode was blown away by Arundell being able to turn the speed switches on, off and on again in the space of that blitzing run, and the fact that his run took nothing out of him. "Not many people that quick have that sort of stamina," the Saracens star observed. "It was a freakish try.
"I was chatting to one of the London Irish physios and he said Henry just goes into the gym and will just do a CMJ [Counter Movement Jump] test, smash it out of the park and just go, 'Oh, is that good?'. Just unaware of how gifted he is."Understanding how good he is, and how much better he can be, is something O'Brien wants Arundell to really dig into, and embrace, in the coming years. "If he gets all those bits and pieces of his game right, he could be really phenomenal," the Ireland legend says. "He could be one of the world's best players. It's about how he develops over the next while. "When he got to the [Toulon] 22, did that little in and out and then put the hammer down, again, that was the most impressive thing for me... to do that and gas to the line, I was like, 'Oh my good gosh, this is freakish!'"
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