Bernard Jackman

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3,385 appearances 14 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast · What we learned from first week of the Nations Championship · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes, the scrums.

They just were absolutely loving pummeling us at scrum times.

It made the game... The game was horrific to watch.

Horrific to commentate on as well.

They got absolute pleasure out of that physical dominance.

And again, sometimes the beauty is the simplicity of actually...

embracing that if you like they they're one of the biggest stats that they obsessed about is is battle stats how many battles you've won you know over the course of the game not missed tackles or or drop passes it's how many physical collisions that you have actually dominated in and you know um i thought that that they they wanted to kind of mark their territory against england

So it was even more, and also because England are kind of a little bit limited in how they play, it just became even more collision focused, more physicality.

The physicality was even more relevant.

And the world rugby can tinker with the laws all they want.

Thankfully at the moment, that physicality is still a massive barometer towards success.

whether you win or lose and they are absolutely equipped for that you watch it's their DNA I mean they're like their genetics you watch schools games I was down there last in Stellenbosch last December doing a coaching thing with Felix and we had a parallel gym they're a big school it'd be like Black Rock or Michael's they were in doing a demo they're under 16s

And like, it was supposed to be 60%.

And next thing, lads are getting stitched and nosebleeds.

I mean, they just don't know 60%.

They can't hold on.

Once you go from touch to contact, it just became, and like, for the Saffron coaches, they just saw it as normal.

Whereas, you know, there's a few foreign coaches there and we were like blown away by how much they, and it was indoors.

It wasn't even a, it wasn't even like, it wasn't a grass setting.

They just wanted to smash each other.

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