Jonathan Bradley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
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Their motivation is obviously going to be winning a Champions Cup.
And what is the best way for them to win a Champions Cup?
But it's only human nature that if you don't,
agree or you don't see the benefit of the system that you're working under at the minute if you know it's temporary you're not going to try and get with it in the same way like I'm not saying that that's how the Leinster players feel it's just that that would be human nature if that was the case and the fact that it hasn't worked for them yet in terms of Europe obviously like they will point to the two year seed titles but it hasn't worked in terms of Europe the gap to the best teams in Europe
is getting bigger regardless of their performance in the final like we all felt before that game that it was going to be a two-score final so this isn't talking in hindsight the gap is getting bigger on their the way that they're playing at the minute that's not saying that's the sole reason there's obviously other reasons here as well but it's a fact so if you're not fully bought into the way that you're playing and you're not going to be playing that way next year
And you have a fair idea, if you're paying attention to the media reports, of the way that you are going to be playing next year, because you've already played under the head coach that it seems like is going to be the one coming in.
It all seems to add up and paint this picture of a possibility that, exactly like you say, well, this Liam Dock term that's been thrown around isn't so much a Leo Cullen thing.
It's a Nina Barr thing, because he's the one that has this...
set style this um so definable style that another coach isn't going to come in and carry that on they're going to come in and do something completely different
Yeah, I mean, I would say potentially the counter to that is that I think that's an Irish rugby problem.
I don't think that's a Leinster problem.
I think the Irish rugby in general, whether that be the national side of the province, has skyrocketed.
I think Connacht are maybe in the exception to that in the latter half of last season.
Is
And I think that's maybe... You mentioned Issa Naseba, and I think it's maybe an unintended consequence of these All Blacks coming in on such short-term contracts.
I imagine Issa Naseba was such a standard driver in training, and that's a constant because he's always there.
He's not missing huge chunks of the season with Ireland, and you have that constant presence of somebody that is demanding that things be better, whereas if...
it's not a slight on the guys that have been there the past two years, but if they're only coming in in the middle of December and then they're only there until May, I think that that would be much, much harder to have that role that I imagine the Sabre would have had in training and other guys as well.
But it's like,
I think is an interesting part, all the Irish internationals coming out seemingly with no real intention of a good chunk of them playing, but just to have that standard setting throughout the season and to have it for as huge a chunk of the season as you can, because I think the position that they were in and I think they were still good signings, but I think it is one of those things where you're not getting the same value from a player that is going to be there for longer and is naturally more bought in because of that.
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