Brian O'Driscoll
speaker
447 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Brian O'Driscoll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In Rassing and then coming over here, I thought it was a great move on both fronts.
You know, a great move from him where he can really get his teeth into a new project, and and you know, there was huge growth potential.
Um, but you know, from your perspective, to have a coach of his calibre here and what he's going to bring, and the intel he has and the excitement that he will bring to the players on a daily basis is what
What you're gonna see the the you know the thriving coming from and it takes a couple of years for any coach to really bed in so yeah, I w anticipate you know some great style and and and some really good rugby this year from from Connacht.
Yeah, what have you learned from him so far?
is Jack Carty, that's why he's not here
Does Andy Farrell's uh face tattoo look a bit more stretched?
On the back of them being a bit leaner?
Particularly now with with James Lowe gone and and and I know that James Lowe was probably coming into the winter of his career a bit and and there was the emergence of, you know, Robbie Alacoon and and Tommy O'Brien have started to kind of maybe make themselves one or two.
But not not that Mac is the is the forgotten man, but he's just been gone for so long.
I suppose the the Lions didn't quite transpire as many people would have hoped or
Or thought I was I thought he was gonna be one of those outliers that no one really was predicting to necessarily do a huge amount, but I thought he might be a test starter.
I remember thinking back to his first cap.
Playing for Ireland, uh was it against Italy, maybe in a Six Nations game?
And the thing that impressed me the most about him was on on your day when you're a winger and you're you know a striker and you're there to score tries, his understanding of space and the ability to be a facilitator as well as as a a as a try scorer too.
And I just remember thinking this guy's got so much football.
His ability to intertwine.
with other back three players off come off his wing.
Um he can he's as comfortable at ten as he is out on the wing and you know number you know the number on your back is irrelevant after the launch play and and he's kind of the um he he's almost the epitome of of that.
And so I'm I've always been very excited having him in Ireland teams because he has kind of
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