John O’Sullivan

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1,338 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Where do Ireland go from here? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

how can Ireland best get into the opposition 22?

And you can examine that aspect of it and whether kicking is an easier to expedite it a little bit and, and being a kind of being more practical in what they do.

So all of those things where gameplay comes into it, but I don't think you could turn around in fairness and,

I go blue in the face when I see numbers up out wide and hammering around the side and opportunities lost because there isn't a simple appreciation that hands will walk a try in at times.

And Ireland might get a little bit more from that occasionally with a better call sometimes.

But Ireland are good in the 22.

So then you look at what are the issues then?

It's getting it down to the 22 and then you can play all the possession football you like in that because that's what they do extremely well.

But when you don't have the top end pace on the edges and then you look at how you're looking to create things, how you're looking to create breaks or line breaks, all that sort of stuff, the speed of ruck ball, everything is interconnected in the team.

It's not just the attack.

The attack is the pointy end of something that you're looking at and going, well, OK, we better if we could do this, this and this.

There are personnel issues there as well where players aren't quite at the peak of their game.

And then there's the gameplay aspect of things.

There's the constant chopping and changing.

Sorry, there's the injury profile as well.

Like it was something that struck me there.

I was just thinking about it.

Like you look at the loose heads that are missing.

But you also look at Ryan Baird and you look at other players in the back line that are also missing or players who are injured that might have added a different value.

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