John O'Sullivan

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

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 · URC preview, women’s Six Nations and Munster’s controversial new appointment · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

So he's got to be accurate in that aspect of the game as well.

So yeah, there's a lot.

I say there's a lot at stake for him.

There's a lot at stake for a lot of players, but certainly given his lack of game time recently, he will want to have a conspicuously good game on Friday night.

Yeah, I spoke to Jack Crowley yesterday and he was pointing out that they'd had a very open and frank discussion after their exit from the Challenge Cup to Exeter, that they had a productive training week last week and that there were a few home truths told.

I asked him about how much of this is a responsibility of the players rather than the coaches per se.

And he was very much, yes, the players need to take responsibility for

The coaches are giving them a game plan that's suitable and adaptable and flexible and everything that they want.

And it's down to the players that haven't been able to execute.

So when you crystallize that, you say, right, well, why haven't the players been able to do it?

Some of the basics that they've done, concentration, focus, precision in what they're trying to do, lots of elements, line out, scrum, you know, that need to get better and they need to get better in a hurry.

So you would ask, well, where will they be challenged by Benetton?

Well, they'll be challenged in set piece.

Benetton, if they decide, have plenty of quality as well behind the scrum.

and they're playing at home, and they understand the dynamic of this fixture in relation to the knockout phase of the competition.

So all of those things make it a challenging environment for Munster.

But if what Jack said is true, and sorry, I'm not suggesting that what he said isn't true, but what I'm saying is that if they've had a kind of cathartic

appraisal of where they are and kind of challenging each other to be better and to take responsibility, then that should be manifest in the performance in Treviso.

And that's what you want to see from Munster.

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