Jonny Holland
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862 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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And that ties into the James Law conversation, maybe, that they are having to front up now up to 30% of a lot of contracts.
It's a lot of money that all of a sudden there's a pressure on the job that Leo probably didn't sign up for.
Like in the last... Well, this last year, he's after copping a lot of flack for...
maybe performances earlier in the year and that's post-Lyons back into international not having those players I think there was a bit of frustration around that and then he's dealing with the budgetary changes and the differences going forward that's something that he's had to deal with that he didn't have to deal with before and now all of a sudden he's got better players who are looking to move on to care for all these little world never looked to move before so I think there's a lot more going on behind the scenes which has kind of brought this to a bit of a boiling point
and then having to defend his coaches and defend their game plan and you know any one of those things in isolation is probably fine but the whole lot of it coming together I think has just made it a very very strange year for Leinster being you know as Bernard said I don't like them comparing themselves to the rest of the Irish provinces because
they're by far and away more successful and more set up, as Bernard said as well, to be successful.
But you can't be looking over your shoulder and they never have.
So comparing themselves to people who aren't winning is not the Leinster that we're used to.
So I think there's been a lot going on in terms of Leo's job, how it's changed.
Probably having a... Well, I'm not sure he didn't have dominant coaches in the past, but there's no doubt...
Jack is very dominant in terms of the passion he has over his beliefs.
And I think when you're dealing with someone like that, you're going to have to be all over everything you say or every narrative that you put out there.
And that's one thing that I wrote.
I don't want to be... I have no interest in being on top of a coach and looking for the end of their contract and all that.
But the big thing I would question, well, first of all is...
You know, he's always been... I've actually respected the fact that no matter what happened, what result, he gets very objective, talks about the game, looks like it doesn't really get to him.
And I always found that strange because it was a real positive for Oil.
And after Oil, I was saying, will he ever show some...
some kind of personality in terms of hating losing like i don't like him kind of explaining away a lot sometimes and all of a sudden he's not explaining it away he's biting back and i'm like that's you know you use the word bernard inconsistent or it's not consistent i i find that very strange as well like if you look at some coaches in the past and they've had a right cut off the media but they might do it every three weeks you know you're kind of
you're going in to expect it but i think the way it's happened now it did probably start as a bit of a stir and try and get people back on their site i don't think it's worked and now they're doubling down and and it probably stinks of a bit more desperation or a lack of control at this stage because if they had won i think they'd have said we started off because we created a narrative and the narrative worked i don't think the narrative has worked and now they're kind of rudderless in terms of how to communicate um i like the
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