Bernard Jackman
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3,385 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Bernard Jackman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're not flying by any manner means, but hopefully they're good enough to get a win.
Thoughts, Berners?
I think I read the transcript and listened to the interview in full with Jack.
I thought it was a different context than Leo's one.
It was way more coherent.
He had his facts.
He argued his point.
He explained pretty well, especially I thought was really interesting around his actual role as a senior coach.
And I thought he explained that in real detail.
And what unfortunately, what wasn't explained, I wasn't clear of was.
So basically what he said was he's given the times for the week for the SEC coach.
That'd be quite standard in terms of how much time on fees.
on a Monday how much time I feed on a on a Wednesday Thursday or depends what Smith to do Monday Tuesday Thursday if they go take Wednesday off and then he allocates the time you know so Rob McBride gets whatever half an hour to do set piece Tyler Blindale gets X amount of time for defence or attack and then obviously he does do defence and obviously Sean O'Brien would get time for contact skills breakdown etc but what he did say was which I thought was really interesting was he doesn't tell Rob McBride how to win the line of ball he doesn't tell Tyler Blindale how to attack
And the reality is that would fit in with a senior coach.
So the head coach, that's their job.
The head coach's job is to make sure that how they defend the line-out is aligned to how they defend in general, how they win line-outs and scrums is aligned to how they want to attack, the balance between possession over territory, the way to kick in game and where you're going to kick and how often you're going to kick, etc.,
that's all someone needs to coordinate that right and i i felt from what i listened to it was that he doesn't oversee he doesn't coordinate at all in terms of how it all joins up that makes sense that i thought i was missing which that's the head coach's job so he coordinates the logistics of how it all plays out of training during the week that's certainly how i yeah how i read it that he coordinated the logistics of how it plays out but he isn't responsible for the overall game plan per se that's
that was my take on reading it which makes sense kind of how it looks on the pitch now it didn't look on the pitch like that on against the Lions now let's be honest the Lions were on holidays but I thought it was a brilliant performance by Leinster it was one of their most accurate energetic slick performances in a long time and it looked all joined up whatever which is
but when you're on the front foot as much as they were it can it can just flow a lot better and the really good game plans are able to be effective when you're not on the front foot or find ways of getting you on the front foot again and you only do that when you're up against a team who are as strong as you and the Lions obviously weren't
And also I thought his set-to with Rory was all logical, respectful.
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