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 · Ireland come up short against England in Under-20s World Championship · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

I thought that the discipline issues were, you know, they just, they couldn't get out of their own way.

They played some very, very good rugby at times and then some of it was just ranking discipline, lack of accuracy, lack of composure, lack of game management, misfiring line out, very good scrum, but that should hurt them.

They had the winning of the match and they just weren't able to take it.

Giving away 21 points when you're a man down,

And the nature of the England tries as well.

There was just a whole thing where they were just off, basically, in terms of their defence and their discipline.

And one of the set pieces, the scrum was excellent.

And it will hurt them more that they scored five tries and lost a match.

Yeah, very much so.

Yeah, like there were some very good individual performances.

Most of the people that we highlighted before the game, and I thought, I'm kind of not quite sure why Jack Deegan didn't start the match.

But yeah, I think they'll be very disappointed and it'll be very difficult for them to qualify for the semifinals now having lost that game, even though they did get two bonus points out of it.

Yeah, and Argentina beat New Zealand in one of the kind of sans are, if you like, warm-up games, 25-17.

So, yeah.

Yeah, I absolutely agree with everything you've said.

I think that you saw it in certain instances, being able to manage the game, but there were basic missed tackles.

Yeah, they also threw, they literally threw away a couple of line heads to England 22.

There was a tap penalty that was pinged, correctly pinged.

There were issues with some of the refereeing, like the penalty try that England got where Ireland lost Ben Blaney to the bin should have been brought back for blocking.

Sometimes you've just got to ride these things a little bit.

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