Jonathan Bradley

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773 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Left Wing · Leinster's risky succession plan, Nienaber's strange status & Ulster's time to deliver · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, that's it, because I think, you know, the way that it was reported when the move first came to light, I think a lot of people maybe

got ahead of themselves and thought that, you know, Joe was basically going to be taking Ulster pre-season and Reggie Murphy was going to be standing at the side of the clipboard taking notes.

And, you know, Ulster were at pains to point out that that was not the case.

You know, he is in, as you say, well, to coach the coaches.

But, you know, to Luke's point,

I think it is really clever, and I don't think that it happens without Rory Best.

Because if you go back two years to before the South Africa tour, when David Humphreys did one of his media briefings, and he's talking about how to... It's not about making Leinster weaker, it's about making the other provinces better.

And he spoke at length about how he believes that the way to make Ulster more competitive is...

through the school's pathway.

So if he sees that as the long-term way to make Ulster better, and you take that to Rory Best, and Rory Best will think that Joe Schmidt is this genius coach that he's worked with.

So Rory Best is thinking about it, and he's like, what way can I make the school's pathway in Ulster as good as it can possibly be, and the underage pathways in Ulster as good as it can possibly be?

He'll be like, have the best coach that he thinks that he's worked with coaching the coaches.

You know, that was Humphrey's thing that he wanted basically directed to rugby in the big Ulster schools so that they were drawing talent from a wider variety of places and drawing more talent into the system.

And I think, you know, Rory has gone away and thought about it and thought about the best way that he thinks that he can do that.

And it's to have Joe Schmidt have this role where he's

really upskilling as many coaches as he can who are going to be working with the players basically at earliest contact in the Ulster system and the Ulster pathway.

So I think it's a really clever bit of business from Best.

I think part of the thing that they'll be pushing back against throughout the year is this idea that Joe is having

an influence on the senior team or an influence on the senior team's results.

Because I think it's more of a long term bet than maybe some people think that it's going to be.

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