Brian O'Driscoll

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447 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Brian O'Driscoll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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OTB Rugby · JOHN MULDOON: ’Stusdays are real!’ | Connacht vs the Springboks in 2007 | THE BANK OF IRELAND ROADSHOW SERIES · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

And you kind of go, Well, what's the differentiation and how do you teach hole running?

You can't really.

You you're you're sort it's sort of innately just someone that's able to see it and and I and and

Can identify it and two thousand and one comes into mind.

Yeah.

Lee Lee Byrne, who played for Wales for years, you know, very nice player, super solid, but just I remember playing with him on the Lions tour and then training.

Fuck he just was this unbelievable hole runner.

He just had this anticipation and I think yeah, some players really lean into it because maybe they don't have wild pace or whatever.

You have to you almost have to

beat the defense to thinking where the spa where the ball is going to be.

And as soon as you're into it and if your ten is or or the pass is on the same wavelength, it can be a pretty wicked combination and before the defense has an opportunity to react you're already in that space.

I think the way the fences have gone

OTB Rugby · Rugby Daily | Brain injury legal case on brink of collapse, can Ireland find their passing game again? · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Joe was big about putting massive pressure in very close quarters around doing three-on-twos, four-on-twos, picking the right pass.

You know, he'd call various different numbers of where the ball was to go, so you reacted really late.

Even going back to David Knox, when we were, you know, back in the kind of late noughties, you know, he used to have those colour...

you know different colour cones where he'd call a colour of a cone and the ball had to go there and then he'd call another colour and it would be split second decisions and then what used to be really exciting was he'd call you know different colours of like NRL teams like Aussie Rugby League teams and some of the lads would go I have no idea what Newcastle Knights colours are but I did but

But then he'd go like, Joey Johns.

And I'd be like, first of all, who's Joey Johns?

I'd be like, so I was like, I used to get a thrill from this because I probably had the knowledge for it.

And he would be laughing at it, but it was about trying to compute really, really, you know, those thoughts really quickly and decipher what he meant by them.

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