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 · Reaction: Ireland squeeze home against Australia · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

He provides space for those inside and outside.

He's a dream, I would imagine, to play off for Valentini.

So when you've got your power carrier inside him as well, and particularly Valentini, he challenges the Irish defence.

And then when you are looking at the Irish defence jumping out of the line, trying to make tackles, trying to put pressure on him,

That's a decision-making process as well with the Irish players.

But go back to the penalty issue.

The final penalty count was 13-10.

So Ireland gave up penalties.

And what sort of discussion would we be having here if when Bundy O'Keefe was penalised, Ben Donaldson kicks the penalty and Ireland lose the game?

Yeah, I just think it's a different conversation.

So do we ignore everything in the performance on the basis that the result was good?

Or do we look at the performance and say, and I take Gordon's points about second half, I thought the bench made a big, big difference, particularly the people that without repeating the same thing, but particularly the players.

the players that he's mentioned so I think that was a good thing I think Carter Gordon going off I think Ireland showed a lot of character they showed a lot of resilience Australia facilitated them in some respects by giving up those penalties but it was a difficult issue I would say that the performance

The issues that were there before the game and the hope that you would have that Ireland would be able to produce a more expansive, wider, all-round performance in terms of the way they attack and be more assured and connected in the way they defended, I think those two aspects of the performance were way off.

I think, yeah, I think Jemison, Gibson, Park and Steve McCluskey were basically the essence of Ireland's attacking

and Hugo Keenan to a lesser extent, who did remarkably well in contact from a standing start.

So that would be definitely a concern.

I think it would be remiss not to mention Hugo Keenan's performance.

Those two try-saving tackles...

Defensively was outstanding.

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