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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But it set Australian rugby back enormously.
I remember covering the Australian match against Ireland under Rennie.
And the way the players, Nick White and a lot of these players, spoke about Rennie.
He was a little bit unlucky with results.
They got beaten in the last minute away to Italy.
It seems to be the one thing you cannot do as an international coach is ask Wayne Pivac,
As Declan Kidney, you tend to lose your job as a result of it, and it happened today, Rennie, as well.
But I think it was too trigger-happy.
I think it was a big mistake.
I think the Wallabies' loss was ultimately the All Blacks' gain.
They've got a really good coach here.
I know it's only happened once before that a head coach has won a World Cup when appointed in the middle of a cycle, less than two years out from a World Cup, when Razzy Erasmus did it the World Cup before last.
I think Rennie's appointment makes the All Blacks
a more dangerous animal in the World Cup next year.
And I think they'll build something now under him.
He's very good in culture.
He builds an environment.
It'll be the All Blacks against the rest of the world.
And he is a Kiwi himself, so he gets it.
And I think that it will be interesting to see
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