John O'Sullivan

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1,312 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Why is James Lowe leaving Leinster? · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

an automatic choice, which he has been for the other eight and a half years that he's been at Leinster.

So maybe there was a, they looked at that and said, well, okay, we're happy and inverted commas.

He won't play as, he won't even play as many games as he did last season or this season, we should say, which is currently on nine, I think.

No, sorry, sorry.

It was Rico Ioanni.

Yeah.

So the point I'm making is that there has been a shift.

There would be no way in this world, unless you were talking about the 2018 final when you had three foreign players and Jemison Gibson-Park and Scott Fardy got the two places on the team in the final and James Lowe missed out, unfortunately.

Yeah.

you wouldn't turn around and say in any of the intervening period that James Lowe would not be in the match day 23 for a Leinster game in a Champions Cup final, a game of that nature.

And he wasn't.

And I think that... So obviously there are people who are looking at it and thinking...

differently to the points that we made.

From my perspective, the way I would look at it, I think he adds value.

When I said he didn't have, he doesn't have Louis Bielbieri pace.

He is quick, but he doesn't have that Balakun Bielbieri pace.

And that was never a point of difference for him.

He brought so many other things to that.

He was quick enough and he could finish.

but it was his power and all the other qualities, his vision, his handling, his ability to make good decisions, his work right off the wing, all of those things, which, you know, you don't accidentally score 71 tries for Leinster or Leicester.

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