Gerry Thornley
speaker
1,832 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Gerry Thornley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 4.
Appearances
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
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
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