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 · Where do Ireland go from here? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So that's what I mean about asking the question about what is it that you're talking about in terms of

how other teams are better.

Other teams attack in a completely different way and they play to their strengths.

Yeah, there's passing for the sake of passing as well.

Like that's the other thing.

I have been banging this drum for a long, long time about footwork and contact and having a purpose in how you carry the ball and doing so.

But look at the depth at which the two teams played when they're coming on to the ball, depth, speed, timing, angles.

And that's why you see the difference when you were talking about Nathan earlier on about how they play to width and at speed and all that sort of stuff.

That's an aspect of it.

But they're playing to their strengths as well.

New Zealand wants to stretch Ireland.

That's what France did to Ireland as well.

They want to pull them apart.

They want to create spaces and they want to let their players use their footwork to touch on the point that Gordon made there as well.

So all of those things are kind of aspects of how you set up to attack and

Ireland can do it with different personnel.

You've also got to look at the players that are missing.

But there is a shortfall in options in certain positions.

And that is something that you can take from this season that has become obvious to a degree.

And it needs to be, a solution needs to be found rather than focusing on the problem all the time about not being able to do this, this and this.

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