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 · What to make of Andy Farrell's Ireland squad to tour Australia and New Zealand · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

To me, that gives you way more options, even though it looks like you have more options in the backfield because you've got more time.

But when you're as a first receiver, you have everything.

You have the ability to... Because the thing is, you can't kick for a corner from behind a pod of forwards.

So you remove a diagonal attacking kick to the corner when you're in the second line.

So I am much more of a fan of what Jalabert does where he's moving and how many times has he just dropped the ball onto his foot, nothing on, but he's engaged in the front line and he tries to kick it through traffic.

You can't do that in the second line.

So I just wanted to contextualize that pivot pass.

I think you need to get away from that, particularly on quick ball, where the ball comes, it has to move.

And that can be, you know, you see the French teams and it's that movement general that we've talked about before where they keep the ball alive.

It's not a pivot pass backwards.

It might just be a straightforward pass across the player to get it.

So it's keeping the ball moving forward rather than going backwards to go forward, I think is probably what I'm trying to say.

Do you know what they're missing?

Just as you're saying that, a big blue scrum cap just pops into my head, tight burn.

You're looking at that link player, just the guy who knows when, just as soon as he gets it, he's already scanned, he's seen it, and the ball has just flung out wide.

Leinster are a different team when they have Orgy in there because they have the offloads.

And it just drags people into positions they're not used to, they haven't planned to be in.

So if they haven't planned to be in it, how can the defence plan to be in there?

So a player like Ty Burney just knows when to be in the right place.

Talk about players like that.

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