Jonathan Bradley

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773 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Sep

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The Left Wing · Disjointed Ireland, Frawley misses his chance & Eden Park looms · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that's a big part of why we see so few people put their hands up.

It was a big day for Casey as well.

He's not about to displace Gibson Park, but it was a big day for him to sort of quell the challenge of Duke, I thought.

And again, it was a really difficult...

team performance for the halfbacks to look like they were running the show and I just think you don't want to excuse everything because of the number of changes but I think we're at the stage with this Ireland team where we see this so frequently that

it's interesting to me to think about what the coaches are able to glean from this when the team performance drops off to such a level, whenever they're trying to gauge the performances of individuals, because we're still hearing it in the buildup to these games of, you know, it's a chance for people to show that they deserve to stick around, because I think the phrase that was used, but I think we're at the point where it's just like, we know how difficult it is in these games whenever they make these changes.

I think it,

we're at the point where we have to question the value of making that number of changes going into test matches when there are so few of them.

Yeah, well, I really like that point, Will.

Yeah, I think that's the key point because so much of what they did technically win was scrappy.

So they're coming in on the weekend.

I think it was 78% of the thing on the weekend, which is okay, but that doesn't take into account

the ball that you're having to battle for, the ball that you're not getting out then quickly, and how everything that you're planning then to do off the line-out is compromised.

Yeah, so I think that was the big thing, because so much of a performance that feels disjointed, I think, stemmed from how disjointed the line-out was.

It feels like we've been talking about this on and off for years at this point.

But when the line-out doesn't function, it undermines so much of everything else that you're trying to do.

And the general impression of the Ireland performance is being stuttering and being scrappy.

You can bring it all the way back to the start in Japan's first try coming off the overthrow in the line-out.

But even just Ireland's attack, I think, was so hampered by not having that launch from the line-out because...

Going all the way back to Joe Schmidt, you know, it's been such an important part of Ireland when Ireland are going well, that whenever it does go wrong, and we've seen it go wrong in games of various magnitudes over the last couple of years, it really, really does hamper you.

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