Jonathan Bradley
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773 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Jonathan Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Denigrate Crowley, but the understanding that Sexton had with those around him that was built up through so much rugby together through years and years and years and years.
It's going to be an awful lot difficult to do.
An awful lot more difficult to do whenever you don't have that bulk of rugby at provincial level as well.
I think that was a real...
benefit to uh as uh as much flack as it got in the other provinces that Leinster core was a real benefit to Ireland whenever they were at their very best now I think Luke's point is a good one in the sense that we know what the RFE thinks of Andy Farrell we know what the rugby board thinks of Andy Farrell and you look at the guys that he's got around him as well like
Me not being able to see what the progression is for this team in 15 months doesn't mean that they don't.
And the fact that there are far smarter people than me plotting things forward is a cause for optimism, I think, because the coaching staff that is really centered around Farrell, but that Farrell has assembled around him, I don't think they are if he would swap that.
So that brain's trust, if you like, to be able to...
identify the things that we're, well, recognize the things that we're talking about, but be able to identify the solution as well, because we've seen that numerous times, you know, it's been talked about a lot prior to that 2022, 2023 run, we were having the same conversations.
And in many ways, we were having the same conversations with a lot more going wrong around them, because that wasn't an Ireland team that was still able to beat every other team in the world, bar three.
So,
Similar to what Luke's saying, I'm not looking at this as like a glass half full thing.
Sorry, glass half empty thing.
I think there's still building blocks there.
I just think personally, it's going to be a huge ask to bridge what we have seen is the size of a gap in the space of 15 months and nine test matches.
Yeah 100% I thought it was a really really surprising decision but it's sort of
be what we're seeing and the unintended consequence of the 20-minute red card, that's as good an example as you'll see because the referee doesn't feel like he needs to show him a red card and then...
loses the ability to show a red card when it comes back as a yellow and nobody can quite believe that it's staying a yellow.
So it's just part of the system that doesn't work.
I think we all know that it doesn't work and it's very hard to see how they put the toothpaste back in the tube with it because if we assume the 20-minute red card is here to stay, there needs to be some sort of directive that we're seeing more red cards shown on the field rather than this
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