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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And he'd just been down to Eddie Jones, asked him why he'd made those comments about how he expected the Japanese scrum to dominate the Irish scrum.
He thought it was a bit disrespectful.
And just as he was telling this, Eddie Jones walked by, so...
It was quite funny.
You don't often get little moments like that, but Illo was buzzing.
I think it's going to be very interesting how his career progresses now.
Billy Bone, only 20, was probably the coolest of the four.
Debbie Dons, he seems remotely unfazed by anything.
I didn't speak to Bryn Ward, a couple of the other lads did, because he came out at the same time as Sean Janssen.
who's a great lad, full of chat, 27 years of age, great story.
His mum, who's very Irish, and dad, and uncle, who'd made the video compilation that ultimately Steve Borkwick saw and brought him to Leicester Tigers, which was a precursor to his move to Connacht, but for which Sean Jansen probably wouldn't even still be playing rugby.
And his uncle was there at the Jersey presentation on Thursday nights with loads of family and friends there.
And I think that his performance alone was a real boost, and I wouldn't be surprised
try scoring on debut and the match of Houston in the 23 in Saturday.
So I thought there were a lot of positives in it and they would have learned plenty.
And of course, they got five points in the nation's championship as well.
No, he went looking for Eddie Jones.
He wants an explanation for the comment.
And apparently as well, like...
the young props came into a forwards team meeting with John Fogre and it was pinned up on the screen the Eddie Jones remark I'm looking forward to Arscombe dominating the Arscombe especially in the second half it was there for them so I think I think Andy Farrell was quite glad that Jones had done this
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