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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The 30,000 capacity enclosed roof stadium.
Their second enclosed rugby stadium.
We've got another one in Dunedin.
It's not even a fantasy or a pipe dream in Ireland that we could get some joined up thinking between the government and all our sporting associations to even have one enclosed stadium in Ireland.
I mean, as somebody pointed out, sure, you can't do it in the Viva anyway because there's only three sides effectively to the Viva.
So this kind of
glorious rugby we're seeing at the weekend was largely because conditions were perfect at all six matches, including New Zealand because of an enclosed roof.
And it is a time and an era where attacking rugby, where rugby and referees, there's less interventions from TMOs, there's more ball and play time.
Defence is again more quickly worn, worked out and worn out.
Yeah, it's just, there's a balance back towards
Good balance now.
There's still reward for good defending, but it is leaning more towards attack.
But there's still teams can't hold out.
I mean, Ireland didn't score from every visit to the 22 or the five-metre zone, nor did Australia.
But once teams get down there, there is more of an expectancy for them to score now.
There was a great variety of the tries in the two games.
I really only watched Nathan.
I went early.
to the press room in the Allianz Stadium to watch the All Blacks versus France, because All Blacks France, the two greatest matches I've ever seen in my life were both a World Cup quarterfinals in the All Blacks and France.
It was a serious French team with Bordeaux Begda not making the playoffs and
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