Gerry Thornley

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Irish rugby's state of the union down under · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't think...

that the Ireland-Australia match and the Ireland-Japan match was on anything like the same level as the All Blacks against France and the Wallabies against France.

And I think that the performance of France, particularly last Saturday in Brisbane, rather puts into perspective Ireland's performance against the Wallabies a week before.

And I would make the All Blacks-Roseby strong.

I haven't looked at the odds, but I would imagine the All Blacks are probably like 7, 8, 9, 10-point favourites, and I think that would be right.

Well, yeah, I thought Italy played better than they did.

I watched the two games.

I thought Italy played better against the All Blacks.

They were inspired early on by that brilliant Tommaso Menoncello try.

And they were competitive.

It was a 14-10 at halftime.

But the All Blacks just turned on the afterburners the second half.

And it was interesting.

listening to Rennie today and talking about it.

And he said that before the game, but it was reinforced at halftime, they overplayed their hand a little bit and had to kick more in the second half.

Because by kicking more, that would force Italy to kick it back to them.

And they love attacking off transition.

And they're very good at it.

You know, they've got Damian McKenzie and Will Jordan and Leroy Carter and all these players.

They've got X Factor galore.

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