Hannah O'Connor
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770 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 May
Hannah O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know that you're supposed to be the winger out wide to trust yourself, to take those moments.
And I think you look in the past, the players like the likes of Ali Miller and Eimear Considine used to be absolutely torments when they would just pop up out of nowhere.
And we see in the men's game too, where Mack Hansen just flows where he wants and is a free spirit almost to cause chaos, as you said, at first receiver or in an inside shoulder.
And we saw it on some of Ireland's tries.
Even Stacey Flood, I think, popped up for an inside ball off Cliona Maloney.
And it just gives Ireland a different dimension.
When we played those soft shoulders against Wales and we weren't meeting bodies that were just choking us up high, it really gave us momentum and it gave us the ability to break lines.
So,
I think if we can keep putting that element in, like Baben Parsons is an absolute menace to play against because she is as strong as she is fast.
And the more we can see that in a green shirt, the more opportunities that are going to arise for players, for an offloader, for herself, for break and tackle.
So yeah, I think that layer of it, if we can add that to Ireland's game, that's that kind of, that unstructured, just kind of going with the flow, playing that heads up, popping up in the right spaces at the right time, gives Dana more heads up rugby to play the dinks and the chips and the kicks over the top, gives her space.
gives her a second receiver option to play that layered pass.
You get Stacey Flood in there who can whip a 30-meter pass.
Just gives that different kind of dimension to make us not as predictable to defend against, which is always what you want to put up against teams.
So I think this weekend could be a good opportunity for that.
not in any not in any spectacular fashion yeah but have really seemed to gone to to go backwards ever since then yeah and it's really hard to put your finger on what they're obviously a new coaching ticket there in terms of um their head coach who's in there but even with that you know he's coming in as you said to a fairly solid scottish team you know they have a hell of a lot of seasoned internationals there who have been around the block the likes of emma wassell
Even in their front row, they have a lot.
I think similar to England, they have been absolutely ravaged with injuries.
I think they've lost nearly their entire back row.
Rachel Malcolm, who's a massive leader and she's one of those players that just always plays.
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