Jake White

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696 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast · URC Grand Final special with Jake White and Bernard Jackman · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

That's the dilemma that people that are running the game are in now.

They want a 45-39 thriller with the last player of the game controlling the outcome.

But I do think that the game will go, just the nature of the game, Bernard, it'll go into an attacking phase again.

The coaches are now working on how to attack even better and keep the ball where the ones that will be in the next curve will be ahead of the game.

Well, Bernard, I know you can go, but one thing that people ask me, so what would change the game significantly?

And I think that if you could catch a kick, any kick out of the air, you could have a scrum from where the kick was kicked from.

Because all that's happened now is people carry the ball outside the 22 and then they kick a contestable onto the kicker, I mean, onto the receiver.

Now, if you caught it out the air, you could take a scrum or a free kick from where you caught it.

you would then be able to get an entry into their half just outside their 22.

So teams would have to kick much more cleverly and along the ground.

They wouldn't be allowed to kick in the air.

And that would stop all this barging and getting in the way and all these 50-50 penalties where you're running in front of people, etc., etc.

The one thing that it would do for the junior game, it would create more scrums in the beginning because everyone would take the scrum just outside the 22.

And then youngsters and parents would say, listen, I don't really want my kid to play rugby because the scrum numbers have gone up.

But I don't think it will last long.

I think what will happen is teams will have to keep the ball out.

And I think bringing back, you can kick it out in your 22.

So in other words, like you can still, so then you won't want to come out of your two, you kick it out, you're 22, another team can have the line out.

But if you decide to keep it in, you have the risk of, if they catch it out of the air, you have to give a scrum to the team that's received the ball just outside your 22.

And that will bring in skilled players to kick from second and third receivers as well, not just from one pass back to James Lowe who punts it down the field 70 metres.

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