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 · Who to look out for in Ireland U20s at the World Cup · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

And also the fact...

that you need to avoid injury.

So particularly for Ireland, where there might be, you know, size-wise, depth-wise, there'd be a little bit more in some of the more established, bigger nations.

Ireland need to be fortunate with an injury profile.

So if you look at their opening two games, they're going to face England and Argentina.

And you can't in times past what Ireland 20 sides had to do in a World Cup was they pretty much had to play their best side all the time.

That issue meant that sometimes that you were running on fumes by the time they got to the playoff games, irrespective of what playoff.

games they were in and that was part of the issue so they'll need to spell their players and in that respect it's how strong is how strong is the squad and that's where Ireland will be squeezed a little bit particularly when you're front loading two games the pool stages where you you're probably going to have to play pretty much close to the your full strength side for the first two matches

Well, I think both defence coaches are still in situ.

So that's probably their heart rate, I'd say, during that match probably went through the roof.

It wasn't healthy.

So, yeah, it was a bit helter-skelter.

The lead swapped over a couple of times and Ireland finished very strongly in the game.

So, yeah, I think at this level, sometimes in those circumstances...

you're not 100% sure.

So when the England team comes out at some stage over the next 24 hours, you will see how many of the England team that played in that match are playing on Saturday.

And that's always a barometer.

What England have done very much, what France do, is that they tend to blood 30, 35 players during the Six Nations.

They don't chase that title as much.

And then they come into the World Cup and that's their goal for the season overall.

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