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

Definitely have to be looking over our shoulders and to be looking ahead, but yeah, I think there's a small bit of a gap.

But people are kind of...

I'd say social media discourse anyway would say, like, where are we?

It's a reality check, I think, is accurate.

But would we not want that now as opposed to the Six Nations?

Because that's what's happened to us in the past, you know, where Joe Schmidt's worked up in 2019, going into, you know, the Six Nations and all of a sudden England kind of show you up.

And now is the time to be showing up a small bit if you are going to get...

If you want to call it showing up, people will have different opinions on it.

I know we'll chat about how the Ireland coaches might feel like there are some things well within their own control.

And you look at some of the injury lists.

I know it's not the deepest injury list of all time, but there are some very important players within that front row captain.

There are positions that we need to strengthen, but there are positions that would be strengthened with a little bit of...

fitness as well so like is now not the time for that like we talk about maybe peaking going into workups and all that kind of stuff and I think Ireland have probably taken a funny route in the last couple of years in that you know some very big performances leading to being beaten now but isn't it time to revisit going to a Six Nations as a team that's on the way up like we speak with England going into the last workup that they could easily surprise people can Ireland not now surprise people and

then maybe take that target off their back and and maybe go and achieve something bigger like i think we we've said for a while that ireland would absolutely take a bit of a different form now for something greater than the line you can't predict what's coming down the line but um and you maybe they're not you know maybe one doesn't guarantee the other but surely we would take this we don't need to be doing something special at this stage of the cycle

Yeah, and then I think Jack Conant said something about nothing to do with Eden Park and they just made mistakes.

I like the honesty of players and the accountability of saying, I just made a mistake.

Don't give me excuses, you make mistakes.

I like that side of things because that's the reality.

You can play the game anywhere.

I know pressure gets to you.

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