John O'Sullivan

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1,545 appearances 9 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard yesterday

John O'Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Leinster reach a record ninth Champions Cup final · 5 May 2026 podcast

And I think that it is a tough, it's a tough place.

And he's been in a tough place for about five months now because the focus is on, it's always on the defensive side of things, the tackling side of things.

And everybody just kind of, it's almost like the second part of the sentence is, oh, well, and he's an excellent, he's a brilliant attacking player.

He's a brilliant range of passing.

He's a super, kicks a super ball, all this kind of stuff.

That has now become the second part of the sentence.

He's got to get that back into being the opening statement that people make about him.

And the only way you can do that is for him to solve the issues that he has from a defensive perspective.

I heard the audio.

I was out working somewhere else.

So I wasn't in the room.

I listened to the audio afterwards.

There was an element of frustration.

I think he would have had a slightly different mindset had the game panned out in a similar vein.

And I mean the game being the Toulon match.

Panned out in a similar vein from the first 60 all the way through to the final whistle.

I think there was an element of maybe a little bit of frustration and also the fact that he would have got... So when he's making those statements about last year and not being given... Not the press or the media not, you know, kind of making the point or coming to the conclusion that the...

But he wanted to point out he got that information officially from EPCR.

So there would have been a review into how the game was refereed.

There would have been, Leinster would have put in a certain amount of things after that game, Northampton merch, and they would have got feedback.

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