Gerry Thornley
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2,299 appearances
10 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Gerry Thornley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were a couple of very good multi-phase tries in the first half.
The main problem was the line-out and, to a lesser degree, the scrum.
I don't know how many lines were lost then.
It was five or six in total, a couple of crooked throws.
And it set the tone with the overthrow.
I thought that was as much a malfunction as an overthrow.
It didn't seem like James Ryan had been fully extended to catch that first line-out.
It was a really disappointing night for the set-piece coaches, Paul O'Connell and John Brogarty.
And that seven points kind of set the tone.
Even the second Japanese try emanates from a crooked throw by Ronan Keller, five metres out on their own line.
The two three-pointers emanate from line-out malfunctions.
So you could almost say Japan's entire 20 points came from malfunctioning Irish line-outs.
on top of which, you know, it's stymie momentum.
So I thought it would be a scratchy enough game.
I think any time there are four new caps, Nathan, and they were buoyant, all four of them were brought into what passed for a mixed zone.
I wish all grounds could be like the McDonald, Jefferson Stadium in Newcastle, in that, you know, you could just wander around anywhere.
You could just make up your own mixed zone, a very little, you know, heavy-handed security or anything like that.
Lovely little altercation when Sam Miller was telling about how he'd
I didn't realise when I first went into the mix zone, Nathan, that like Sam Miller and the Japanese dressing room was way down to the left corridor and the Irish dressing room was way down to the right corridor.
And Sam Miller appeared for what transpired to be the Japanese corridor.
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