Hannah O'Connor
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770 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 May
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But I suppose there's extra pressure on that Wales game because people were dying to put their hand up.
There was a few rotations on the bench that people would have been dying to, you know, put their best foot forward to be in this week, you know, to be in with a look in for the final, the finale, you know, to home crowd Aviva.
It's a lot of girls first time playing in the Aviva.
So they would have been desperately wanting that too.
So you throw that in and it adds a bit of a weird mixture of a bubbling pot.
So, yeah, I'm not surprised there was relief at the end of that 80.
Yeah, and I think we touched upon it a bit last week, and Aoife Wafer is so important and pivotal to all Ireland do well on both sides of the ball.
And I think especially in a game like that, where Ireland are struggling to get front football and to really kind of get into their rhythm and get that ruck speed up and get that tempo up and find their flow.
And yeah, as you said, a lot of the scraps, a lot of the one-out carries we saw from the first try comes from just a massive...
picking out her target and going like running it straight almost at her target and a kind of second try for babe and parsons on the wing same thing it comes from a moment of magic of her yeah there's that argument that you can be devil's advocate with it and say that you take wafer away from the team and how do ireland perform i think that's still something that we talked about even in that french game in the second half we're looking at ireland and seeing in the unstructured play i think there's room for growth there and room for that off the cuff play that you see the frances and the england do so well
that living in the chaos, that unstructured play that they're so good in.
I think Ireland have that element that they can level up and if you take away an Aoife for whose moments of brilliance are there, that
that Ireland team are still looking for that kind of attacking flair where they can just play off-the-cuff heads-up rugby, that counter-attacking rugby, or where they can't find their rhythm with quick-rock balls.
Okay, what can we next do to find that switch again to go up another gear?
So I think that's something that they definitely can explore.
There's always work-ons, and look, they're blessed to have a player of her calibre in there to spark those moments that she so often does in every game.
But yeah, without her there, I think...
Even with her there, I think that's something that they definitely will, to be able to generate more opportunities kind of in the loose and in the unstructured play is something that they'll want for this weekend and beyond.
just the players getting the confidence and exposure to to go out and do it you do get the feeling they are being encouraged to do it but it's probably very different when you're out in the pitch having the confidence to just go and go and find that work yeah and i think this is the first time i think the fact that the team is kept so consistently similar for the first time in a long time also helps like that and you know and on baven will always want that to be kind of adding that layer and obviously robin o'connor is so new to the 15 scene at the international stage so
It's hard to trust yourself.
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