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

It's like,

Why would you make a ruling when you can kick it upstairs to somebody else to make the decision?

And too much of rugby these days is that.

It is somebody else making a decision.

It's not the officials on the pitch.

And they're kicking a lot more up.

And you can see it in referees that they're waiting for the communication into their ear to say, no, that was a knock on two phases ago or we're going to go back for this instead of refereeing with their eyes.

in what's happening.

Nick Berry says again that he's happy with Quinn Tapia.

He's happy with the, as Gordon outlined there, the kind of one handed intercept.

And he thought it was a legit attempt.

And then the TMO comes in and goes, well, you want to have a look at this again if I were you?

And they put it up on the screen.

And then you're thinking to yourself, well, Nick, what were you looking at in the first place that you thought?

Because you had an unobstructed view.

You thought this was good.

So it was a bit like the other thing, I don't know, and we'll get onto it in a second, but the Angus Gardiner interaction with Brett Crowe and the TMO at the end of the Argentina-England game should be just replayed over and over again.

The TMO trying to convince the referee that it's not a try and the referee saying, all the pictures I see here suggest to me that it is a try.

They didn't miss it because Angus Gardiner said to the Argentinian players, that's not a high tackle.

I'm happy with the tackle.

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