Jonny Holland

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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 think the All Blacks defence was quite impressive.

I think they smothered Ireland in the midfield.

They kind of showed them fake spaces and they went and double tackled them.

I wrote about that.

Gary Ringerell was being held up early on.

a couple of Ireland's bigger players like Joe McCarthy fought through an enormous amount of contact but he was always double hit you know and Jack Conan felt the brunt of a few of them as well so I think Ireland were probably and maybe that's part of the occasion that the All Blacks just step up they're a different animal in Eden Park maybe I don't know I think

the all blacks just happened to get back to some of their best i would say i know not their most polished performance of all time or that's what the discourse is as well but i thought it was pretty impressive and the intensity that they brought i think it's more the intensity on both sides of the ball was something that we're we're more used to from them and they're getting back to a scary enough if that's their trajectory then i think they're going to be really hard to beat um

But, you know, they did cough up a lot of cheap possession.

You look at that Prendergast had a couple, Ty Byrne had a poor one in the 22, but he got around and got a bit flat and then ended up trying to keep the ball alive because he was going to get, he was having a big double hit anyway and it was probably going to be a turnover coming.

So he probably felt like he had to slip the ball away and move forward.

But that's a 22 metre entry that Ireland are normally very good at.

That's a big part of their game is actually quite consistent and how they run their runners off the shoulder.

There's two guys show up early and there's a third guy come late and it gives them momentum.

and they weren't in that momentum at the time so I think I saw stats on New Zealand getting up about 4 points per entry and Ireland down to like 2.6 it was a 4.4 and 2.6 or something like that but that's we're used to that being the other way around when Ireland get entries they score them you know and that's not what we saw as I said Sam had there was one kind of an offload but I think he kind of got knocked out of his hand as he was offloading and it looked poorer than what it was it was a

he did throw in his touch but James Gibson Park I think you know the part that would frustrate them is that they got a bit lost in what they were doing and he was throwing the ball between two attackers and no one really stepped up to it because they didn't think it was for them that happened twice at the end of the first half and those kind of things when you're dealing with the line out the way it was I know they were 13 from 14 or something like that at 92% but don't talk to me like it's 92% delivery because their stats were much better but

They did a three plus where James gives a paracat at the front and that delivery to the... I actually don't know who he delivered it to because he was getting the ball at the front, but how that ball was delivered away.

It's a long pass to midfield, so the defence is going to be on top.

so they have to they did have to kind of solve a few problems along the way which is going to affect your attack and then you get a couple of you know knock-ons or or turnovers and attack that are kind of cheap not unforced but barely forced turnovers um try to build an attacking game on top of that it's actually quite difficult so they're the things i think they need a bit of a reset in the line that i would imagine uh whatever that means to whatever like like

to the coaches i i wouldn't get stuck into it they know what they're doing but um they obviously want their delivery to be a bit more challenging for the opposition if you look at new zealand they were winning the ball middle back and that's going to launch your attack a little bit easier than winning the ball at the front and a three plus like you know three plus one or whatever we call it nine at the front um so yeah there's low there's lows in their attack that they would like to think that they can affect going forward

Yeah, because I think that's what we're trying to figure out from a public watching on and from coaches who analyse the game deeply.

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