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

It just changes the whole shape of how we exit.

When was the last time we just dropped the ball over the defensive line?

And I mean off the kick-off.

you're obviously conceding possession, but you're doing it for a reason to go, okay, well, we kick a little bit unorthodox here and that makes the defenses change.

Does that give you an opportunity to create something different?

This is where I'm kind of talking about the game management side of things.

If you don't think differently about the game, why do you expect the defenses to do anything different?

I don't mean another set play.

I don't need to see a lovely, you know, the hit in the midfield and then, you know, the one Finlay Beelum did that lovely pass back inside for Hugo Keenan.

I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about when have we shadowboxed with a team and showed a picture, showed a picture and then provided something else that's just made the defences go, I'm not sure what's happening here.

And when that happens, you're just like, right, you just have to sit back a little bit.

effectively what Bordeaux did to Leinster.

Leinster defence had to sit back a little bit and they're just like, not really sure where this is going to materialise.

Now, I don't expect that, but I'm just like, I'd just love to see a little bit more individual thinking on Friday night.

Comes back to it, he's got 10 years of scrummaging.

That Ustinov just has probably 18 months of scrummaging under his belt.

But there's a good template there from the Stormers.

So they know the game they do not want to get involved in.

So you start losing collisions, you start losing set-piece, you start losing the aerial battle, you're going to be in a lot of trouble.

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