Jonny Holland

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862 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast · How do Ireland close the gap after a season of ups and downs? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

You know what I mean?

So a spine of a team that can break up a game would possibly help.

History won't care about the draw.

If Ireland get to a certain stage or challenge, I don't think anyone's going to say, well, they will, but they shouldn't be saying about the draw because history won't care.

Ireland will have achieved something that they haven't achieved before and gotten stick over it.

So I wouldn't be overly worried about the draw.

I'd be confident enough.

I'd be quite enthusiastic about the future of Irish rugby because of the criticism it's getting and because of the things that I feel they can change.

I don't think now is the time for panic at all but as you said earlier I think there's a body of work to be done I just think that the reason I'd be enthusiastic is because I know the coaches would be going into it going well we can fix this and we can fix that and we can fix this thing we have to get our set piece a bit better I think but also like

There are things that have just affected me.

The game is easier to coach or you get more effective when your best players are playing.

There's no doubt about that.

And Ireland's best players haven't been in every position.

You can argue that their squad depth will be better by the time the World Cup comes because Tom O'Toole is never going to get that time in the saddle.

No, I think he's had... He's been brave and he's had very good moments, but...

he still has given away quite a bit in there it's been a baptism of fire and I think like those things matter actually big point we didn't get onto we're not going to time those Ireland's defence there's a bit to be ironed out in their defence I said to you before now that I wasn't really sure I liked their scrum set up with the 10 in the boot trying to kind of predict both sides I think you never get a kind of aggressive that New Zealand scrum that Ardy Sevilla carried on I'm not sure they would have stopped him but I like seeing a more certain defensive line without kind of guessing on the way the ball is going

And I said to her, I think out the field, I was feeling like, okay, fair enough.

I don't know how their backfield is working and very hard to stop a kicking out half or two kick threats when you've got a midfield scrum.

So maybe you have to release your backfield and take a gamble in the frontfield.

But when you're closer to your goal line, I didn't like them splitting their resources with someone in the boot.

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