John O’Sullivan
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1,338 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Jul
John O’Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Ireland's back play, particularly in the first half and when they had possession, they relied on breaking through and they relied on tap penalties, their line-out ball.
And I thought that the biggest change in the game overall was Australia losing Carter Gordon at half because that changed the game completely for them.
Ben Donaldson, quite apart from the missed kicks, stuff like that.
Carter Gordon made breaks on his own.
He kept the Irish fringe defense a little bit more vigilant and he created space for those outside him.
His departure was massive in terms of the outcome.
Well, where are you going to get the space?
If you're at half drops deep, you don't have pace on the wings and you're looking for Stu McCluskey to do the impossible, which he kind of managed on several occasions.
Where are you going to make the line breaks behind the scrum, even on fastball?
Where are you going to go with this?
So I think that's the issue for Ireland.
There was some nice, when they got front football, there was better shape to the attack.
But in the first, that was after the interval, but in the first half, it was just very difficult to play because Australia know that they can align themselves defensively in a different way.
The lack of footwork at times with Ireland in their carries meant that Australia got a double hit.
They drove them backwards, which meant Ireland had to go back around again.
So there were lots of,
of interconnected issues in the first half in terms of the defence.
I think it's 35 missed tackles in the match.
The spacing, as Gordon has already touched on as well.
When you're playing, there were a couple of times, say in Jamie Osborne's case, and I don't... It's not a kind of blame game here.
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