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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I think they're missing Alex Callender obviously as well, but it is a carbon copy of a Welsh back rower that they will tackle hard, bounce, look to get the jackal and feed off most of that scraps that they're getting.
We saw it against England last week as well.
It was similar form that they will always go for that jackal every time.
They'll pack serious punch up up front in their front row as well, which will give Ireland lots of questions at scrum time.
So we could be in for a real good battle when you think like for like in terms of the likes of Brittany Hoke and Aaron King and Aoife Waver wanting to do the exact same things if they go head for head on Saturday night.
Yeah, 100%.
You mentioned it there.
We saw we got cut open by Italy when they decided to run one back early on in that game as well.
So teams will be eyeing that up against Ireland and know that once Dana puts that boot to ball and puts it up the air, that there is opportunity for counter.
And Wales, yeah, they have the players there.
They have Jazz Joyce Butchers, who is no slouch.
along with a few others in their back three, whoever they decide to opt to go for.
And they have a few young under-21 players who've been blooded into that squad due to those injuries, who are seriously packing a punch in terms of pace as well.
Like Freya Bell has come in as a centre and they're no slouches.
So they will be looking to put their hand up and making a stamp on it from their point of view.
But Ireland definitely, in terms of the biggest work on from the first couple of games or rounds, in that second half particularly, we saw against France, as you mentioned, that we just get a bit loose and a bit unsteady.
that's literally the only word for it, unstructured when we're cut open by those teams who are a bit superior in the power game than us.
So that would be something that they'd be looking to nullify against Wales and not give them room to breathe because instead if they get an inch, they'll take a mile and they will stay in that fight for as long as you think that, or as long as they think that they're capable of it.
So yeah, it's a very important one for Ireland.
I think as well, what would be nice to see from an Ireland point of view is of that we saw flashes of it against Italy in Galway is that playing off the cuff, playing that heads up rugby unstructured play.
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