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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bit of banter in the pre-match and hyped up the scrums and put focus on his young props put the pressure on him that would be very typical to embrace something like that and I think Samuel O'Brien embraced it with the best intentions as well and funny because he got the scrum got a little mangled but thankfully it was reset and he locked it in the bill up to one of the tries so I mean he suffered a little bit he suffered a penalty as well Tom O'Toole was pained a couple of times
So it wasn't a great night for the scrum either.
And that's a little bit of a concern going forward.
But I do think that Sam Illo's progress next season with Connacht and perhaps less or so Billy Bowen, because you would imagine the phalanx of loose heads will all come back next season.
Porter, Jack Boyle, Paddy McCarthy will all come back.
So where the Bowen will get the same opportunities, but good judges.
think hugely of this boy and it was a brave move for Conor at 18 years of age straight out of Newbridge College and it's already paid off it's a good time to be a young Conor player or in Sean Jansen's case a late developing blooming Conor player what with the new stand there and Stuart Lancaster and three of them making their debuts at the weekend
The thing there is, Nathan, that unlike their Ulster counterparts, the Connacht boys, they're going to be exposed to Champions Cup rugby next season, which is a factor in their development because as Andy Farr reminded us afterwards and Illo and Bowen would have discovered that in a few of the carries they made, they were going to stop dead.
Playing Japan in a test match, even in a stadium that's only one third full in Newcastle, Australia, is still a big step up from the URC.
Like Illo's never played or Bowen has never played a game of Champions Cup rugby, much less the test match before last Saturday.
No, no, it was all good natured.
And Eddie was saying, he said he told Illo that he was just standing up for his boys.
Then when he walked past, he said he made some compliment to Illo.
I can't remember the exact words, but, you know, he made some compliment.
It was all good.
It was all good.
Very good natured.
Oh, mixed zones should always be like this.
Yes.
Yeah.
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