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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I don't think there's been enough transparency about that whole debacle and who was behind it and what people knew about the appointment and who really...
was the driving instigator behind it.
It looks as if it was Ian Costone, Ian Flanagan.
They were, as we know, disappointed plenty of people within the Munster organisation set up and people walked out of the organisation as a result.
Humphreys did admit mistakes were made, but yeah, it's...
It was interesting when Neil Tracy of RT asked him if compensation had been paid to Randall, and he said he wouldn't go into the details of it, but it was a non-denial, if you like.
It certainly left it open to conjecture that compensation had been paid.
He didn't refute that.
Yeah, he also had a little bit of a pop at the travelling media and saying how cosy he was over here.
And he implied that if he'd been here, maybe he should have been here.
It's very easy to just cast aspersions on the travelling media core from back home and in his ivory chair.
And maybe he should maybe, I don't know, come over here the next time and maybe he should attend one of these things and he should ask some questions.
It's very easy to blame others.
Fair enough.
So I don't know if he was implying that... I think there was an inference that there was no pony payment, as in a payment for a player of national interest, when he claimed there was.
But what he didn't dispute was that it was, but much like Leinster's basic salary offer, the pony payment to James Lowe's contract was also appearance based.
So therefore, whatever monies he was on, depending on appearances, he could make the same amount of money.
The basic offer, it seems to have been half what he was on or even less.
And he didn't dispute that.
And therefore, one can only deduce that whatever he was offered in Japan was inestimably better in guaranteeing him money.
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