Jonny Holland

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

Jonny Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

I also thought that the Josh Lord pass for Tui Palladu's try was unbelievable.

Second row passing, athleticism, skills kind of aspects.

But if you look at it, I think Josh van der Vleer got up, I think, was it Conan, was in kind of the second defender.

Tom O'Toole was third defender.

I might be a defender out there now.

There might have been a Joe McCarthy in between that as well.

I think there actually possibly was.

But they never loosened at all to the point where Stuart McCluskey was looking out

He had every right to do that, even though we defend their inside shoulder.

But he was expecting a better fold from the forwards and they got the wrong man, which is just, you know, defensive system error.

Or maybe they were just killed by phases and couldn't get up and think and take the right man.

you've never give away your inside shoulder no matter what you'd like to force a team to make another pass and McCluskey made an assumption so I think defensively they have and then I go back to the Australia one the keen Prendergast sitting off and it looked like everything inside him was really passive so like defensively I think Ireland have two steps to take forward at the moment we talk about their attack all day long because it's obvious but defensively I think they have a bit of growing to do too yeah quickly on the on the defense do you see that as

From my perspective, I think we're overthinking it.

You go into camp, you run different attack systems as well.

So go into camp and get back on board and yeah, you've habits that you have to probably change slightly, but they're in camp for, I know like international rugby, you don't get a lot of time to prepare, but it's quite intense and you're in a complete bubble of what you're supposed to be doing.

they're there because they're able to do it so I don't really I don't take the Jack Neane everything as a as a scapegoat I think that's a system error no matter what system we're in I think everyone now is looking after inside shoulder especially on goal line goal line like that I don't think McCluskey should be it looked like the game was so fast they were caught by the pace of New Zealand's intense attack no one actually spoke which is what the issue was in the Australia game as well I think the communication looked poor

RTÉ Rugby Podcast · Leo Cullen and Jacques Nienaber go on the offensive, James Lowe's Leinster exit · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, I actually struggle to know what their identity is.

Like, they're not really a kicking team or a transition team.

They're probably a possession-based team, but... Well, they are, but they're not as possession-based as what you might, you know, easily identify Ireland as, you know.

So...

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